Saarbrücken Airport has become the first German airport to have its air traffic managed remotely from a control center located 450 km (280 mi.) away in Leipzig.
Icelandair Group’s interim president and chief executive, Bogi Nils Bogason, will assume the role officially, days after the airline pulled out of a transaction to acquire low-cost rival WOW Air, the company said Dec. 4.
Saab and Swedish air navigation service provider LFV will assume responsibility for remote-tower control of two airports through their Saab Digital Air Traffic Solutions (SDATS) joint venture.
The Safety Investigation Authority of Finland (SIAF) has issued several recommendations resulting from the Dec. 3, 2017 evacuation of an Embraer 190 regional jet in Finland that revealed “serious deficiencies” in the evacuation response.
Dubai-based LCC flydubai, as of Dec. 2, has relocated flights to 11 of its destinations from their current operating base of Terminal 2 to Terminal 3 at Dubai International Airport (DXB).
Alaska Airlines plans to grow capacity 2% in 2019 and accelerate its expansion rate soon after, but will carefully monitor the competitive environment before making firm commitments, the airline’s top executive said.
Passenger-door seal damage caused by a catering truck created an unnerving onboard noise that led a Qantas Airbus A380 to return to Sydney 2 hr. into a scheduled flight to the U.S., an Australian Transport Safety Board (ATSB) report found.
Japan Airlines (JAL) will increase its U.S. network with new codeshare destinations via Seattle, thanks to an expanded partnership with Alaska Airlines.
Latin American carriers Avianca Holdings and Copa Airlines have reached an agreement with Chicago-based United Airlines on a proposed joint business agreement (JBA) plan.
Brussels Airlines has begun replacing seven leased aircraft in its Airbus A330-family long-haul fleet with secondhand A330-300s the Lufthansa Group subsidiary decided to acquire last year.
Nav Canada has implemented a new separation standard at Calgary International Airport (YYC) that allows reduced separations of aircraft making required navigation performance (RNP) approaches to parallel runways, becoming the first air navigation service provider (ANSP) to use the standard.
A coalition of consumer and passengers’ rights groups has come out in opposition to two of U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) secretary Elaine Chao’s recent appointees to the Department’s four-person Aviation Consumer Protection Advisory Committee (ACPAC).
Curb-to-gate biometric facial recognition at Delta Air Lines’ Terminal F at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport (ATL) became fully operational Nov. 29.
Falling fuel prices could trigger a small increase in near-term capacity but not major network additions at United Airlines, in part because of the airline’s success in passing through costs during fuel’s rise, a top United executive said.
Air France-KLM’s new CEO Ben Smith is said to be contemplating the future of Joon—the LCC hybrid sister airline to Air France launched by Smith’s predecessor—while considering plans to boost the airline group’s profitability.
Aeroflot Group’s net profit for 3Q 2018 reached RUB27.7 billion ($422.4 million), up 14.2% as the airline group implemented cost controls in the wake of high fuel costs and currency pressure seen through the year.
