Russia’s UTair and Transaero Airlines have signed a partnership agreement to increase the number of transfer passengers between UTair’s domestic and Transaero’s international flights.
China Eastern Airlines’ wholly owned subsidiary China United Airlines is accelerating its rapid expansion pace as it plans to increase its fleet by 50 aircraft by 2015.
Air Canada rouge, the Montreal-based carrier’s new low-cost international subsidiary airline, launched operations Monday with an Airbus A319 flight from Toronto to Kingston, Jamaica.
Finnair—which will formally join the transatlantic joint venture (JV) between American Airlines, British Airways and Iberia on Tuesday—is seeking approval to join British Airways and Japan Airlines’ (JAL) Europe-Japan JV.
EasyJet founder Stelios Haji-Ioannou will oppose the UK budget carrier’s plans to acquire up to 235 A320s during an extraordinary general meeting July 11.
When the A350 XWB first flight test aircraft took off from Toulouse Airport June 14, there was genuine excitement and a palpable sense of achievement among the crowds of Airbus and supplier employees gathered to watch the event. There was also a feeling that the real work had begun to get the aircraft into service by its promised date and to ramp up production in a way that both meets commitments but does not jeopardize progress.
Qatar Airways CEO Akbar Al Baker was holding court with a group of reporters in a New York hotel meeting room following the official announcement that his carrier would be joining the oneworld airline alliance. “Things are changing in the Middle East and in the global aviation industry,” he said. “When you cannot defeat your competitors, you join them.”
