Etihad Airways and airline rating organization Skytrax have exchanged terse comments after the airline announced it was withdrawing from both the Skytrax World Airline Awards and the Skytrax Audit.
US airlines on-time performance, ranked by percentage of flight arrivals on-time at all reporting airports at which these carriers operate, contrasted with the previous month's performance, and the year-ago month's performance.
Ireland-based low-cost carrier Ryanair is seeking an explanation from an Italian ground handling company as to why one of its aircraft was left without chocks at Rome Ciampino Airport and rolled into a building, damaging its port stabilizer.
American Airlines Group has taken delivery of the first of 30 enhanced Bombardier CRJ900 NextGen aircraft, which will be operated by subsidiary PSA Airlines under the American Eagle brand.
The Association of European Airlines (AEA) has called proposed plans by Germany’s air navigation services provider Deutsche Flugsicherung (DFS) to increase user charges next year “unacceptable.”
LOT Polish Airlines wants to double its fleet size from 50 to 100 aircraft by 2019/20 if the European Commission (EC) decides to lift its growth ban under European Union (EU) state aid rules.
Flughafen München (FMG), which operates Germany’s Munich Airport, has signed an agreement with Airports of Thailand (AOT) to intensify cooperation between the two airport operators.
Phoenix-based Mesa Air Group has received FAA to add the Embraer E-175 to its operating certificate, which it called a “critical accomplishment” in its goal of having the aircraft “on line on time.”
The Pratt & Whitney PW1500G geared turbofan (GTF) engine that malfunctioned on Bombardier CSeries flight test aircraft FTV1 had been having problems and was repaired just before the low-pressure turbine failed during ground tests, Bombardier executives have told analysts from UBS.
FAA has made “clear and measurable progress” toward completing the technological foundation of the US Next Generation air traffic control system (NextGen), according to deputy FAA administrator Mike Whitaker.
British Airways (BA) and Qatar Airways are believed to be in the early stages of studying ways to increase levels of cooperation beyond their current codeshare links as part of the oneworld alliance.
