Chicago-based United Airlines expressed confidence in its current financial outlook with the issuance of updated revenue guidance for the third quarter of 2018, as part of the company’s presentation at the Cowen and Company Annual Global Transportation Conference in Boston Sept. 5.
For a second consecutive quarter, Hawaiian Airlines has lowered its guidance for forthcoming quarterly revenue related to hazardous environmental conditions, with the culprit affecting 3Q 2018 RASM being the hurricane that approached and brushed the Hawaiian island chain in late August.
SF Airlines has started China’s first courier cargo airline to operate scheduled service from China to Singapore. The inaugural Boeing 767-300F flight from Shenzhen arrived at Singapore’s Changi Airport on Sept. 4.
Airlines were forced to suspend operations for a second day Sept. 5 at Osaka Kansai International Airport due to severe flooding, and there was no indication of when the airport will reopen.
A proposed airfreight carrier partly owned by China’s YTO Express Airlines will proceed to the organization phase, a step toward beginning operations, following approval from the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC).
Ryanair pilots who belong to the Irish Air Line Pilots’ Association (IALPA) have voted unanimously in favor of a collective agreement, marking a step forward in talks between the LCC and its Irish pilots and introducing the possibility that the airline may not reduce its Dublin-based fleet as threatened.
Norwegian will stick to its strategy of selling up to 140 aircraft, the airline wrote in an investor presentation Sept. 4, confirming plans for large-scale asset disposals.
China’s Guangxi Beibu Gulf Airlines (GX Airlines) has filed a preliminary schedule for daily service from Nanning to Singapore, according to routesonline.com.
Norwegian Air Argentina (NAA) will begin flying in Argentina in mid-October, the company announced Sept. 4, as tickets went on sale for six domestic routes.
Osaka Kansai International Airport, one of Japan’s major hubs, has been flooded by rain and storm surge from Typhoon Jebi, and there appears to be major damage to the airport’s road links.
China Airlines (CAL) and Japan Airlines (JAL) have started codesharing on seven domestic routes in Japan: Sapporo-Niigata, Sapporo-Hanamaki, Fukuoka-Miyazaki, Fukuoka-Hanamaki, Fukuoka-Amami, Kagoshima-Amami, and Kagoshima-Tokunoshima.
Kuwaiti carrier Wataniya Airways has limited its operations, citing technical problems with its aircraft and blaming a Greek lessor for difficulties that led to a sharp reprimand from the Kuwaiti regulator on Aug. 25.
With just 11 working days remaining for the U.S. Congress to pass legislation reauthorizing the FAA, industry watchers are expecting the most likely path forward to be another short-term extension that would last through the end of the year.
Bombardier has gained a second customer for its 90-seat Q400 turboprop, with the Canadian manufacturer announcing China’s Industrial Bank Financial Leasing Co. (CIB Leasing) has converted half of its standing order for 10 CRJ900 jets to five of the recently certified 90-seat version of the Q400.
Belgian carrier VLM Airlines went into liquidation Aug. 31, the second European regional airline to dissolve last week after Swiss regional SkyWork Airlines ceased operations Aug. 29.
EasyJet said it would open its seventh base in France, at Nantes Atlantique Airport in the west of the country, basing three Airbus A320 aircraft there beginning next spring.
Ryanair has accused UK air traffic control (ATC) provider NATS of discriminating in the supply of staffing at its London Stansted Airport base, leading to greater delays and favoring the city’s larger Heathrow and Gatwick airports.
Netherlands-based pilots union Vereniging Nederlandse Verkeersvliegers (VNV) said it has reached agreement in principle on a new collective labor pact with KLM and will not plan any more strikes while it awaits a vote by its members’ council.
A Utair Aviation Boeing 737-800 (VQ-BJI) overran a Sochi airport runway after landing and came to a stop in a nearby river at 3 a.m. local time Saturday.
An inflight diversion of an Etihad Boeing 777 due to chafing and arcing within incorrectly installed wiring has led to an additional production inspection.
