Southwest Airlines said Tuesday that the Boeing 737-700 that suffered a nose gear collapse on landing at New York LaGuardia yesterday entered service in October 1999 and was last inspected July 18, just four days before the incident.
Las Vegas-based Allegiant Travel Co., parent of Allegiant Air, reported second-quarter net income of $25.8 million, up 2.3% compared to $25.2 million in the 2012 second quarter.
American Airlines has taken delivery of its first Airbus A319, the first of 260 planned Airbus narrowbody deliveries as part of its fleet renewal program.
United Parcel Service (UPS) posted a second-quarter net profit of $1.07 billion, down 4% from $1.12 billion in net income in the prior-year period, as total revenue grew slower than expenses.
Hungary-based low-cost carrier (LCC) Wizz Air has been approved to launch 5X-weekly Budapest-Moscow Vnukovo service Sept. 23, breaking Russia’s Aeroflot’s monopoly on the route following the 2012 bankruptcy of Malev Hungarian Airlines.
FAA plans to make mandatory inspections of Honeywell emergency locator transmitters (ELT) on Boeing 787s, but has not said it will require the devices to be made inert or removed.
Norwegian Air Shuttle and Thomson Airways have removed the emergency locator transmitters (ELTs) from their Boeing 787s pending the outcome of an investigation into the Ethiopian Airlines 787 fire at London Heathrow Airport.
Tianjin-based Okay Airways has converted an order for three Boeing 737-800s to three 737-900ERS, making it the first Chinese carrier to order the -900ER.
A Russian Sukhoi SuperJet 100 (SSJ100) aircraft touched the runway with its landing gear retracted during a test flight at Iceland’s Reykjavik Keflavik Airport Sunday.
The US airline industry can expect to maintain profitability through 2013, according to PwC’s June Tailwinds report. Considering favorable metrics such as a 4% increase in load factors since 2008, expectations of easing fuel prices (according to the US Energy Information Agency forecast of $94/barrel average in 2012 dropping to $92/barrel in 2014) and a rebound in consumer confidence, PwC US transportation and logistics leader Jonathan Kletzel said “there’s no question the domestic airline industry is undergoing a renaissance marked by increased revenue and stable profitability.”
Ukraine International Airlines (UIA) and Russia’s Rossiya Airlines have signed a codeshare agreement on its roundtrip service from Kiev to St. Petersburg.
Airbus, which announced last year it is extending the payload-range of its A330 family, said it is investing $180 million per year for -200 and -300 program development.
