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Just hours after Lufthansa’s former CEO Wolfgang Mayrhuber withdrew his candidacy to become Deutsche Lufthansa AG supervisory board chairman, Lufthansa announced it would stand by him.

South African Airways and Air Seychelles will codeshare, beginning with the SA code on Air Seychelles’ 3X-weekly Johannesburg-Seychelles flights.

Japan Air Lines announced new flights with the re-introduction of Boeing 787-8 service June 1.

Briefs from the May 6, 2013 issue of ATW's Skypaths

Lufthansa’s former CEO Wolfgang Mayrhuber has withdrawn his candidacy to become Deutsche Lufthansa AG supervisory board chairman due to criticism from shareholders.

Air Canada, coming off a loss-making first quarter, is counting on the development of its international network to enable it to eventually achieve “sustained profitability.”

Air France-KLM Group reported a first-quarter negative net income of €630 million ($827.6 million), widened from a loss of €379 million in the year-ago period.

Qatar Airways has reportedly said it would receive compensation from Boeing for the Jan. 16 grounding of the carrier’s five 787s, which should be placed in service with battery system modifications before the end of the month.

UK’s Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) is recommending new economic regulations for all three London airports.

Improvement in air cargo traffic growth “has stalled,” IATA reported, citing a 2.3% year-over-year decline in total global airfreight traffic in March.

Las Vegas, Nev.-based Allegiant Travel Co. has purchased one Airbus A319 aircraft that was previously operated by easyJet.

Irish regional Aer Arann has taken delivery of its first of eight ATR 72-600s.

LATAM Airline Group, the merger of Chile’s LAN Airlines and Brazil’s TAM Airlines, will meet June 11 to discuss expanding its capital $1 billion through the issuance of ordinary shares.

Alaska Airlines’ flight attendants, represented by the Association of Flight Attendants (AFA), have filed for mediation with the National Mediation Board, AFA said in a statement.

Flight attendants for Compass Airlines, a Delta Connection carrier, have ratified their first contract with assistance from the National Mediation Board.

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Pinnacle Airlines has emerged from Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and will move forward as a wholly owned subsidiary of Delta Air Lines.

Lufthansa Group posted a first-quarter net loss of €459 million ($605.1 million), widened 16.5% from a net loss of €394 million in the year-ago period.

Boeing has started initial sales efforts on the 777X in advance of an expected launch of the next-generation aircraft.

CFM International said it has “completed design freeze” for its LEAP-1B engine that will exclusively power the Boeing 737 MAX.

The threat of re-regulation looms over Europe’s ATM system if the Single European Sky (SES) initiative is not realized, former Eurocontrol DG David McMillan warned at a recent London’s Aviation Club event.

Oneworld CEO Bruce Ashby believes the new cooperation Qantas, a founding alliance member, and non-alliance member Emirates, will not hurt other alliance partners such as American Airlines or British Airways.

Passengers not booking tickets via Frontier Airlines’ website will start being charged this summer for overhead bin carry-on bags.