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.
The Competition Commission of Singapore (CCS) has granted anti-trust immunity (ATI) to the alliance agreed between Singapore-based budget carriers Scoot and Tigerair Singapore last December.
Abu Dhabi-based Etihad Airways and Middle Eastern carrier Oman Air are avoiding Iraqi airspace as a result of the growing deterioration of the security situation in the country.
An Antonov 140 passenger aircraft, operated by Sepahan Airlines, crashed shortly after takeoff Sunday morning from Iran’s Tehran Mehrabad Airport on a flight to Tabas in Eastern Iran, according to FARS news agency (FNA).
Air accident investigators probing the crash of a Boeing MD-83 operating for Air Algerie have revealed the aircraft’s cockpit voice recorder (CVR) was potentially broken before the accident.
Ukraine International Airlines (UIA) has been forced to reroute flights following Russia’s decision last week to ban Ukrainian flights over its territory.
The Lufthansa Group will continue to suspend flights to Erbil in the Kurdish region of Iraq until further notice, following a reassessment of the security situation in Iraq.
Ranked by involuntary denied-boardings per 10,000 passengers, lowest to highest. Source: US DOT Aviation Consumer Protection Division, Air Travel Consumer Report and ATW Research.
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.
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.
Monthly percentages of total flight cancellations, per reporting airline. Ordered from lowest percentage of total flight operations cancelled to highest.
The long-mooted deal between Etihad Airways and Italian flag-carrier Alitalia finally came to fruition Friday in a complex transaction worth €1.75 billion ($2.35 billion).
Malaysian sovereign wealth fund Khazanah Nasional Berhad, which owns 69.4% of Malaysia Airlines System (MAS), has tabled a plan to buy out the airline’s remaining shareholders at 27 sen ($0.08) per share to take total ownership.
Alitalia’s route network plans show the Italian carrier being pulled into orbit around the fast-growing, Abu Dhabi-based Etihad Airways, following the closing of a long-awaited major investment deal.
Delta Air Lines refutes Boeing’s claims that export credit financing from the Export-Import Bank of the US (Ex-Im) does not harm US carriers and calls for reform of the institution when Congress debates its reauthorization this fall.
German investor Intro Aviation—which acquired Irish regional CityJet and its subsidiary Belgium-based VLM in April—is in final talks with aircraft manufacturers to replace CityJet’s Avro RJ85 fleet.
