Denver-based Frontier Airlines has become the latest US airline to embrace the “ultra” low cost-carrier (ULCC) model, joining fast-growing Spirit Airlines and Allegiant Air.
The Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) is studying whether missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 may have been navigating between waypoints in the southern Indian Ocean when the aircraft’s satellite communications system last exchanged “handshakes” with an Inmarsat satellite and ground station in Perth, Australia, as it descended, most likely after running out of fuel.
Shanghai-based low-cost carrier Spring Airlines has suspended plans to launch an initial public offering (IPO) on the Shanghai Stock Exchange to raise funds for fleet expansion.
India’s Jet Airways group has reported a consolidated loss of Rs 42 billion ($689 million) for the financial year April 2013 to March 2014, widened from Rs 7.7 billion in the prior-year period.
Emirates Airline will operate 50 Airbus A380-800s by the end of June and will add an additional frequency to its Paris Charles de Gaulle service, Emirates SVP-commercial Europe and Russia Federation Thierry Aucoc confirmed to ATW.
Three leading flight attendants’ unions have joined forces to lobby the US Department of Transportation (DOT) to deny Norwegian Air International’s (NAI) application for a foreign air carrier permit.
