US passenger airlines canceled 1.6% of scheduled domestic flights in July—8,390 out 520,880 scheduled flights—according to the US Department of Transportation’s (DOT) Air Travel Consumer Report and the Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS).
Frankfurt Airport operator Fraport AG and a consortium headed by the Slovenia Sovereign Holdings have reached agreement to purchase Ljubljana Airport in the capital city of Slovenia.
Fastjet has applied for a Kenyan Air Service License (ASL), forming part of its four-year expansion strategy, as pressure begins to mount from its high-profile shareholder Stelios Haji-Ioannou.
Air France-KLM is unlikely to finalize the key target figures for its new Perform 2020 program until early 2015, according to group chairman and CEO Alexandre de Juniac.
Southwest Airlines’ eighth international destination will be San Jose, Costa Rica (SJO), to which the carrier will operate daily flights from Baltimore/Washington International Airport (BWI) from March 7, 2015, subject to government approval.
US Airline Fuel Cost and Consumption figures, organized by domestic, international and system totals, contrasted with figures from the previous month, a year ago, two years ago and five years ago.
Alitalia’s senior management has embarked on a series of staff meetings to brief its workforce on the carrier’s future path with Etihad Airways as a major shareholder.
Qantas will be able to significantly broaden its network offering in Canada thanks to a new code share agreement with Calgary-based low cost carrier WestJet Airlines.
US airlines ranked by mishandled baggage reports per 1,000 passengers, lowest to highest; contrasted with reports from the previous month, and the year-ago month.
Sabena Technics has signed a heavy maintenance contract with Air Tahiti Nui. Sabena Technics will perform heavy maintenance on two of the airline’s Airbus A340s in Bordeaux starting in November. Spirit Aeronautics has appointed William Highfill as director of maintenance. QantasLink is upgrading and expanding a heavy maintenance facility at Tamworth to support its 31 Bombardier Q400s, 16 Q300s and two Q200s.
Nairobi-based Kenya Airways (KQ) has expanded its Boeing 787 network to include a series of Far East destinations and is continuing to move its flights to Nairobi’s new Terminal 1A.
Philippine-based San Miguel Corp. (SMC) has agreed to sell its 49% in Philippine Airlines to the Lucio Tan Group (LTGroup), which currently owns 51% of the carrier.
US Airlines ranked by complaints per 100,000 passengers, lowest to highest; contrasted with complaint rankings from the previous month, and the year-ago month.
Future growth in Southwest Airlines’ network will come from its growing number of international routes, and the carrier sees potential in 50 “dots,” or new destinations, within reach of its current fleet of Boeing 737s.
U.S. Gulf Coast Kerosene-Type Jet Fuel Spot Price, showing the current week and comparisons to the same week for each year of the past decade. Figures are released every two weeks by the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
Hainan Airlines reported first-half net income of CNY483 million ($78.5 million), down 25% over net profit of CNY647 million in the same period last year.
Lufthansa is expected to release a new pilot retirement plan Monday, the carrier’s latest effort to convince its flight crews that proposed reforms to the early retirement system are not worth the going on strike over.
