The Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) said the underwater search area in the southern Indian Ocean where it has been focusing since detecting acoustic signals in early April can “now be discounted as the final resting place of [Malaysia Airlines] MH370.”
London Heathrow Airport (LHR) is attempting to expand in a passenger-friendly way despite being constrained by the limitation of having only two runways.
United Parcel Service (UPS) has opened a much larger processing facility at its Taipei air cargo hub located at Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport (TPE).
UK-based Odyssey Airlines, which plans to start all-business class services from London City Airport to New York in 2016, has widened its efforts to attract investor funding.
Global premium air travel demand weakened in March, growing 1.9% year-over-year, down from February’s 4.1% increase, according to IATA’s March Premium Traffic Monitor.
London mayor Boris Johnson has warned the Airports Commission it “would be letting the country down” if it continued to focus on what was needed in the short term and “failed to look to the longer term.”
Aegean Airlines reported a first-quarter after-tax loss of €8.4 million ($11.5 million), narrowing the consolidated €13.2 million loss reported for the same period last year.
Norwegian Air Shuttle, parent of Norwegian Air International, has described as “outrageous” claims by flight attendants unions that its recruitment policies could undermine safety.
Nearly six months since Australia mandated the use of Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B), more than 97% of domestic and international airline flights in Australian airspace above 29,000 feet (flight level 290) are being conducted using ADS-B surveillance, according to air navigation services provider Airservices Australia.
UK and Norwegian air navigation service providers (ANSPs) NATS and Avinor, have signed a deal for a single common Aeronautical Information Management (AIM) system as part of the Borealis Alliance of ANSPs.
Lufthansa Group is looking to grow its presence in the China market by increasing frequency to key cities, potentially forging stronger ties with its Star Alliance partner Air China, and leveraging the Lufthansa brand that the Chinese associate with high quality.
On a calm and brightly lit meeting room overlooking Reykjavik’s downtown domestic airport, Icelandair Group president and CEO Björgólfur Jóhannsson reflects on the turmoil created when Iceland’s three major banks failed in quick succession in 2008.
The explosive growth experienced by the Brazilian airline industry at the beginning of this decade has cooled considerably, but Brazil is still one of commercial aviation’s most dynamic markets. Importantly, it is fast-rising Latin America’s largest market.
Aviation biofuels is a sector moving at two speeds: quickly on the technical side of developing and approving new fuels, but slowly on the commercial side of scaling up production and reducing cost.
