Irish budget carrier Ryanair is expecting to hear news on its Cyprus Airways bid by early 2015 and is likely to use the Ryanair-linked branding for its long-haul, low-cost project.
Lufthansa said flight modes on personal electronic devices (PED) could soon become obsolete, enabling passengers to keep smartphones, tablets and laptops switched on from gate-to-gate.
Iceland-based low-cost carrier (LCC) WOW Air is finalizing its first transatlantic service on 6X-weekly Reykjavik Keflavik-Boston Logan service from March 28, 2015.
Porter Airlines has reached an interline agreement with JetBlue Airways to route some traffic through JetBlue’s hub at Boston Logan International Airport, considerably broadening the Canadian airline’s reach into US, Mexico and Caribbean markets.
Data represent the total employment, full time plus part time, of all US airlines scheduled passenger, charter and cargo airlines, sorted by Airline Group.
Accumulated worldwide air freight volumes continued to rebound this past August, expanding 5.8% year-over-year, according to Airports Council International (ACI).
FAA’s Chicago En Route Center came back online early Monday morning, ending a 17-day outage that required creative approaches such as the use of adjacent facilities to maintain traffic flow and led FAA to stand up a review of air traffic center interruption-contingency plans.
UK leisure carrier Thomson Airways will take delivery of two further Boeing 787s and 47 new 737 MAX aircraft by 2020 as part of its “five-year vision to change the face of holiday flying,” the airline said.
Lufthansa pilot union Vereinigung Cockpit (VC) is planning more strikes within the next several days in its ongoing protest over transition payments for early retirees, a VC spokesperson was quoted by several German media outlets as saying.
Finnair has approved a one-off long-term incentive plan for its pilots as part of a savings agreement concluded last month between the airline and the Finnish Air Line Pilots’ Association (SLL) that will generate €17 million ($22 million) in permanent annual savings.
Etihad Regional has submitted some minor changes to the Swiss and European authorities to clarify that its shareholders have effective control of the airline.
US investment firm RiverOak is urging the UK government to amend the law relating to airport closures in the wake of its failed bid to bailout Manston Airport in Kent.
UK-based regional carrier Flybe has closed its Rewards4All frequent flyer rewards program and is switching to the Avios (formerly Airmiles) travel loyalty program.
Porter Airlines of Toronto and JetBlue Airways have agreed to an interline agreement, the first for Porter. Boston Logan International Airport serves as the connecting point for interline flights between the two carriers. JetBlue has 125 daily departures out of Boston and Porter flies to Boston 8X-daily from Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport.
The European Commission has called for an “urgent” meeting of the joint committee that governs the US-European Union (EU) open skies to discuss the US Department of Transportation's (DOT) delay in approving Norwegian Air International’s (NAI) application to serve the US.
The UK government will implement screening at Britain’s two main gateway airports—London Heathrow and Gatwick—for passengers traveling from Ebola-stricken Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea.
