While Singapore-based low-cost carrier Scoot will use Boeing 787 deliveries to grow its fleet next year, the initial deliveries will be focused more on fleet replacement than expansion, CEO Campbell Wilson said.
Independent aviation safety body Flight Safety Foundation (FSF) is backing the use of deployable flight data recorders (FDRs), or triggered flight data transmission, as the search for Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 continues.
Lufthansa said it plans to start operations of a new long-haul low-cost carrier (LCC) for intercontinental and European services in fall 2015, most likely from Munich and Düsseldorf or Cologne.
FAA has issued a new notice to airmen (NOTAM) prohibiting US air carriers from flying in the Damascus Flight Information Region, which includes all of Syria. FAA cited the “ongoing armed conflict and volatile security environment in Syria,” which “poses a serious potential threat to civil aviation.”
Russia’s Ministry of Industry and Trade has offered to equip Red Wings Airlines with Tupolev Tu-204 aircraft to be used on flights to Crimea after Aeroflot’s new low-cost (LCC) subsidiary Dobrolet suspended flights Aug. 4 due to sanctions imposed by the European Union.
Rapidly growing Turkish low-cost carrier (LCC) Pegasus Airlines continued to slip into the red in the first half of 2014 compared to the year-ago period.
The Rostekhnologii (Rostec) and Lithuanian Avia Solutions Group have created a joint venture, Ramport Aero, to turn Ramenskoye Airfield into a low-cost carrier (LCC) airport.
China’s Xiamen Airlines plans to launch Jiangxi Airlines in conjunction with the Jiangxi provincial government in June 2015 as it accelerates its domestic expansion pace.
Etihad Airways’ introduction of the Airbus A380 and Boeing 787 will mean major changes for its Australian network when the aircraft are delivered at the end of the year.
UK carrier Monarch Airlines is looking at staff numbers as it makes final preparations to transition from a charter airline to a scheduled low-cost carrier (LCC).
UK air navigation services provider NATS has signed an agreement with London Luton Airport to extend the current contract for provision of tower and engineering services at the airport for a further two years.
Cumulative worldwide first-half air passenger traffic has grown 4.8% year-over-year, besting 2013’s mid-year passenger growth rate of 3.2%, according to Airports Council International (ACI).
Finnair is expecting a "significant" deterioration to its full-year turnover and profitability, after posting a second-quarter net loss of €23.9 million ($32 million), reversed from a €18.1 million net profit it posted in the year-ago quarter.
Southwest Airlines is revealing where it plans to fly in Mexico through filings with the US Department of Transportation (DOT) that support—or at least do not object to—another airline’s plans in that country.
