Air Transport World

By Karen Walker
A Fokker 50 cargo aircraft has crashed shortly after takeoff from Nairobi Airport, killing all four crew, according to CNN, Reuters and other news reports.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Henry Canaday
Etihad Airways will soon perform all scheduled and non-scheduled line maintenance on Air New Zealand aircraft in Melbourne at its Tullamarine engineering facility.
Maintenance & Training

Ukraine International Airlines (UIA), which launched daily Kiev Boryspil-New York JFK services in April, is planning to extend its long-haul services to Beijing.
Airports & Networks

Germany-based leisure airline Condor has inked an interline agreement with Sun Country Airlines to add new US services from the summer season of 2015.
Airports & Networks

Airline News
Airlines & Lessors

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.
Airlines & Lessors

Quarterly financial results from 72 air carriers worldwide, highlighting operating revenues, operating expenses, operating profits/losses and net income/losses for the first quarter of 2014, generally defined as January 1, 2014 through March 31, 2014.
Airlines & Lessors

By Henry Canaday
Briefs from the July 2, 2014 issue of ATW’s MRO Digest
Maintenance & Training

By Henry Canaday
Turkish Airlines has launched its new maintenance and repair center, HABOM, a state-of-art MRO.
Maintenance & Training

By Henry Canaday
TNT Express has been awarded a contract from Lufthansa Bombardier Aviation Services (LBAS) to transport mission-critical aircraft parts in Germany.
Maintenance & Training

By Henry Canaday
Wizz Air will have a new aircraft maintenance hangar in Budapest within a year’s time, according to 15-year lease agreement signed June 24 with Budapest Ferenc Liszt International Airport.
Maintenance & Training

By Henry Canaday
Etihad Airways will soon perform all scheduled and non-scheduled line maintenance on Air New Zealand aircraft in Melbourne at its Tullamarine engineering facility.
Maintenance & Training

Turkish Airlines will launch services to Algeria July 31 on the 2X-weekly Istanbul-Tlemcen-Batna-Istanbul route.
Airports & Networks

By Linda Blachly
Air Canada has launched service between Toronto and Tokyo-Haneda Airport. The year-round service is the only nonstop flight between the two cities.
Airports & Networks

Turkish Airlines has opened a new, state-of-the-art MRO facility, HABOM, at Istanbul Sabiha Gökçen International Airport. HABOM represents an investment of about $550 million by Turkish Airlines subsidiary Turkish Technic.
Maintenance & Training

By Alan Dron
Italian carrier Livingston has staved off an attempt by ENAC, the country’s civil aviation regulator, to suspend its operating licence. Privately-owned Livingston operates three Airbus A320s on scheduled and charter services from its base at Milan Malpensa.
Airlines & Lessors

By Linda Blachly
Airbus has completed the assembly of its first A320neo following painting of the aircraft and the mounting of Pratt & Whitney PW1100G-JM engines.
Aircraft & Propulsion

Two Southwest Airlines Boeing 737-700s departed Baltimore/Washington International Airport (BWI) Tuesday morning bound for the Caribbean, marking the first international flights in the 44-year history of the Dallas-based carrier.
Airports & Networks

By Polina Montag-Girmes
The Rostekhnologii (Rostec) board has approved an investment development project to turn Ramenskoye Airfield into a low-cost carrier (LCC) airport.
Airports & Networks

Korean Air has introduced the ninth Airbus A380 to its fleet, underscoring its upmarket approach in using Airbus’s largest passenger aircraft.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Linda Blachly
Bombardier has received a firm order for 16 CRJ900 NextGen regional jets, plus eight options, from an unidentified customer.
Aircraft & Propulsion

Lufthansa has taken delivery of its 14th Boeing 747-8I as the US manufacturer delivered its 1,500th 747—its first widebody aircraft in history to reach the milestone—on Saturday at Paine Field in Everett, Washington state.
Aircraft & Propulsion

The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has initiated a comprehensive program to test processes for collecting the biometric information of most non-US citizens departing the US aboard commercial aircraft.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Victoria Moores
African low-cost carrier FastJet has reported a full-year net loss of $80.9 million, deepened from a $56 million net loss in the prior 18 months.
Airlines & Lessors

By Alan Dron
Dublin-based Aer Lingus has “reluctantly” agreed in principle to proposals solving a long-running pension dispute that will cost it a further €50 million ($68 million).
Safety, Ops & Regulation