Air Transport World

American Airlines has reached a second tentative agreement with the Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA) that will allow pilots at Envoy Air to fly Embraer E-175 aircraft.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

Kazakhstan-based Air Astana is expecting to be profitable this year, despite the 19% devaluation of the Kazakhstani tenge in the first quarter that created a local market weakness.
Airlines & Lessors

Air Canada, which continues to aggressively expand its international network, will add Dubai in 2015.
Airports & Networks

Malaysia’s Khazanah Nasional Bhd sovereign wealth fund and majority shareholder in Malaysia Airline System (MAS) will suspend trading in the national airline’s shares from Dec. 15.
Airlines & Lessors

The European Commission (EC) has asked the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) to investigate a series of near mid-air collisions involving European passenger airliners and military aircraft during recent months.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Victoria Moores
Despite its ongoing drive to attract business travelers, easyJet has no plans to introduce codeshare or interline agreements with other airlines.
Airports & Networks

By Adrian Schofield
Singapore-based low-cost carrier (LCC) Scoot has revealed one of the new routes it will introduce with its Boeing 787 deliveries, adding Melbourne as its fourth Australian destination.
Airports & Networks

Vienna Airport has completed a 9,500 sq m project to remodel its Pier West and C-gates area, which now offers a continuous, spacious gate area, a high-quality culinary offerings and a brighter, more pleasant overall atmosphere.
Airports & Networks

By Polina Montag-Girmes
Transaero Airlines and Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) have signed a partnership agreement to attract funding for the Russian carrier. ICBC will provide a range of legal and marketing services aimed at attracting investments into Transaero, the carrier said in a statement.
Airlines & Lessors

By Mark Nensel
Air passenger traffic demand worldwide increased 5.7% year-over-year in October, building on September’s 5.2% rise “as improvements in economies in Asia-Pacific and the US offset signs of weakness in the eurozone and China,” IATA DG and CEO Tony Tyler said in IATA’s October Air Passenger Market Analysis Report.
Airlines & Lessors

MRO News-Dec. 9, 2014
Maintenance & Training

US Airline Fuel Cost and Consumption figures, organized by domestic, international and system totals, contrasted with figures from the previous month, three months prior, six months prior, a year ago, two years ago and five years ago.
Airlines & Lessors

Air Seychelles launched 2X-weekly Airbus A320 service to Antananarivo and 3X-weekly service to Mumbai. It also began 2X-weekly Airbus A320 service to Dar es Salaam. Ethiopian Airlines has begun 3X-weekly Doha service.

Lithium batteries are suspected to have played a role in three commercial freighter aircraft fires between 2006 and 2011, and the ongoing concern about transporting the batteries by air has led IATA to issue a 56-page guide to mitigating the risks.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Adrian Schofield
Air New Zealand is further boosting its Boeing 787-9 fleet with orders for two more of the type, which will bring its total to 12 by the end of 2018.
Aircraft & Propulsion

London Gatwick Airport will invest £1 billion ($1.6 billion) to upgrade the facility’s North Terminal.
Airports & Networks

Air Canada will start 4X-weekly flights between Toronto and Delhi in November 2015, marking the Montreal-based carrier’s entrance into the Indian subcontinent.
Airports & Networks

Lufthansa subsidiary Austrian Airlines considers the merger with its subsidiary, Innsbruck-based Tyrolean Airways, a “sign of conciliation and as a starting point for a new Austrian Airlines,” CEO Jaan Albrecht said in a statement.
Airlines & Lessors

By Victoria Moores
Scandinavian Airlines (SAS) has struck a deal to acquire 100% of Danish regional airline Cimber, which was set to close in April 2015 after losing its long-standing SAS wet-lease agreement.
Airlines & Lessors

Kazakhstan-based Air Astana will decide next year if it will order either the Airbus A321neoLR or the Boeing 737 MAX-9 to replace its fleet of five 757-200s and older A320 family aircraft.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Victoria Moores
African low-cost carrier fastjet has sold a pair of ATR 72-500s formerly operated by Fly540 Ghana and Angola, as part of its previously announced restructuring of the two businesses.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Mark Nensel
Airbus led Boeing in November for new commercial aircraft orders, totaling 248 aircraft orders versus Boeing’s 221.
Aircraft & Propulsion

China Eastern Airlines has launched Aviation Technology Co. to further explore the MRO market.
Maintenance & Training

By Polina Montag-Girmes
Russia’s Avialeasing investment company has filed a bankruptcy motion against UTair Airline, according to the arbitration court of Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug.
Airlines & Lessors

Singapore’s Changi Airport management will open up a secondary airport to accommodate local, smaller capacity and turboprop traffic.
Airports & Networks