Aeroflot relaunched daily Airbus A320 Moscow-Tbilisi, Georgia service from Oct. 26, after Russia’s Federal Air Transport Agency, Rosaviatsia, announced Sept. 15 that scheduled flights could resume between the countries.
American Airlines, which has the most exposure to Venezuela of any US carrier, expects the country’s economic travails to result in a 2%-4% decrease in the carrier’s system-wide fourth-quarter unit revenue.
Alaska Airlines added 8% in capacity year-over-year in the third quarter, but most of the increase was due to replacing smaller aircraft with larger ones and adding seats to existing fleets, the carrier’s executives said in a conference call with analysts this week.
Russian aviation authorities have removed all restrictions for Turkish carriers on service to Sochi International Airport for the next three IATA seasons. The move is part of the Russian government’s plan to recoup the investment on airport renovations to prepare for last year’s 2014 Winter Olympics.
Deutsche Lufthansa is realigning its IT activities and will enter into a seven-year partnership with IBM, which it expects will reduce its IT infrastructure costs by at least €70 million ($89.4 million) per year.
Southwest Airlines and the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM)—representing the carrier’s approximately 6,000 customer service agents and customer support and services representatives—have reached a tentative agreement for a new four-year contract. The current contract became amendable in October 2012.
Etihad Airways has signed a commercial agreement with Swedish digital air traffic management products supplier AVTECH to implement its Aventus NowCast Descent service for Etihad's operations into London Heathrow, Abu Dhabi and Jakarta airports.
US scheduled passenger airlines posted a full-time-equivalent (FTE) employee count of 384,478 personnel in August, up just 1% year-over-year, according to the US Department of Transportation’s Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS).
The continuing sluggish performance of Thailand’s commercial aviation industry has prompted a series of changes at Thai airlines while the nation’s military government attempts to alter the image of a country that has lost the confidence of tourists owing to ongoing political unrest.
Delta Air Lines pilot Tim Canoll has been elected as the new president of the Air Lines Pilots Association (ALPA), the union representing more than 51,000 pilots at 30 airlines in the US and Canada.
Southwest Airlines will see most of its capacity growth in the fourth quarter of 2014 and next year come from expansion at two airports, Dallas Love Field and Washington National Airport (DCA), and upgauging as it removes its remaining Boeing 717s from its fleet.
Budget carrier Norwegian Air Shuttle reported a net profit of NOK373.8 million ($57 million) for the third quarter, down 14% from the NOK435.9 million reported during the same period in 2013.
United Airlines parent United Continental Holdings posted its second straight strong earnings period in the third quarter, reporting net income of $924 million, indicating the carrier may finally be joining the US airline industry’s financial turnaround.
JetBlue Airways saw lower-than-expected summer yields in Latin America and the Caribbean, a problem executives blamed on increased competition and more capacity in the markets, executives said Thursday in its third-quarter earnings conference call.
Mexico City-based ultra-low-cost-carrier (ULCC) Volaris further eased its cumulative 2014 losses in the third quarter, reporting a net profit of MXP347.3 million ($25.7 million), a 36.9% year-over-year improvement on the company’s 2013 September quarter results.
Las Vegas-based Allegiant Travel Co., parent of Allegiant Air, is reporting third-quarter net income of $14.2 million, down 17.2% from net income of $17.1 million in the year-ago quarter.
Lufthansa subsidiary Austrian Airlines is moving forward in its fleet modernization program after reaching a framework agreement for a new group collective wage agreement for approximately 3,200 flight staff.
Moscow Vnukovo Airport general director Andrey Dyakov and his deputy Sergey Solntsev have resigned after a Falcon 50 business jet crashed at the airport on the night of Oct. 20-21.
