Air Transport World

By Alan Dron
London Stansted Airport aims to provide up to half of the London area’s total long-haul aviation growth over the next decade as Heathrow and Gatwick continue to contend with runway capacity constraints.
Airports & Networks

By Graham Warwick
Nordic airlines and airport operators have come together to accelerate the introduction of electric aviation in the region.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Jens Flottau
US private equity firm Indigo Partners is in takeover talks with German leisure carrier Condor, according to industry sources.
Airlines & Lessors

State-owned Croatia Airlines will receive a government cash injection, while another southeast European carrier, Adria Airways, is scrambling to find investors and resume full operations.
Airlines & Lessors

China Southern Airlines has signed a codeshare cooperation agreement with Qatar Airways, and pending approval, will begin Jan. 14, 2020.
Airports & Networks

Qatar Airways reported a fiscal year 2018/19 net loss of QAR2.3 billion ($639 million), widened from a net loss of QAR251.6 million in the year-ago period.
Airlines & Lessors

FAA deputy administrator Dan Elwell told US House appropriators that all safety inspectors who sat on the flight standardization board (FSB) for the Boeing 737 MAX were fully qualified, contradicting recent findings from the Office of Special Counsel (OSC).
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Victoria Moores
International Airlines Group (IAG) is expecting its full-year operating profit to be down on 2018, after taking a £170 million ($186.6 million) hit from industrial unrest among its pilots and Heathrow Airport workers.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Sean Broderick
The FAA, moving quickly to adopt Pratt & Whitney’s recommendations, is ordering engine inspections on some Airbus A220 and Embraer E190-E2-series aircraft within 50 cycles—or about a week—based on findings from two recent Swiss International Air Lines’ PW1524G-3 failures.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Karen Walker
Airlines want airports to understand their business models and demonstrate how to help them control costs, executives from airlines in three different countries told airport delegates.

By Sean Broderick
Delegations from four countries, including the US, submitted a working paper to ICAO outlining recommendations to address the consequences of pilot dependence on cockpit automation.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Bradley Perrett
Beijing Daxing International Airport (PKX) opened on Sept. 25, initially adding more than 40% to the air-passenger capacity of China’s national capital and second-largest city.
Airports & Networks

By Polina Montag-Girmes
Russian and Japanese aviation authorities have agreed to raise the number of frequencies for carriers operating flights between the two countries.
Airports & Networks

Hong Kong Airlines opened a new training academy for flight and cabin crews Sept. 25.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Adrian Schofield
Qantas subsidiary Jetstar plans to end regional turboprop services in New Zealand, although the LCC will continue flying trunk domestic jet routes in that country.
Airports & Networks

By Adrian Schofield
Air New Zealand has confirmed an earlier commitment to order eight Boeing 787-10s and is also moving closer to selecting a new CEO.
Aircraft & Propulsion

US airlines have no plans to revive a proposal from the previous Congress to spin off the Air Traffic Organization (ATO) from the FAA, an Airlines for America (A4A) official told the Senate Subcommittee on Aviation.
Airports & Networks

By Adrian Schofield
Virgin Australia wants to establish itself in the Australia-Japan market by launching its own service and forming a new strategic partnership with All Nippon Airways (ANA).
Airports & Networks

The US Office of Special Counsel (OSC) has substantiated a whistleblower complaint alleging that FAA safety inspectors who served on the Boeing 737 MAX Flight Standardization Board (FSB) were not properly credentialed, contradicting earlier claims made by senior FAA officials.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Sean Broderick
Boeing is adding a top-level layer of safety oversight, implementing early lessons learned during the ongoing 737 MAX crisis.
Health Safety

By Jens Flottau
German leisure carrier and Thomas Cook subsidiary Condor received approval by the German federal government and the state of Hesse for loan guarantees totaling €380 million ($418 million).
Air Transport

By Helen Massy-Beresford
Trade wars and economic uncertainty take their toll on the air freight market.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Karen Walker
Christopher Luxon has never played by conventional airline rules.
Airlines & Lessors

For Korean Air Cargo, 2019 has become a year to prepare for 2020 and beyond as the air freight market becomes tougher.
Airlines & Lessors

Peter Carter
The European Commission (EC) has been outspoken lately in its defense of Air Italy as a European Union (EU) carrier.
ATW Opinion