Aviation Daily

By Sean Broderick
China’s Hainan Airlines is selling the remainder of its stake in Azul Brazilian Airlines—part of Hainan parent HNA Group’s continuing efforts to raise cash and pay down debt.
Air Transport

New York-based JetBlue Airways in November will launch Saturday Boston-Havana flights and add a second daily Fort Lauderdale, Florida-Havana service, as the carrier ramps up its commitment to the U.S.-Cuba market even as other U.S. airlines pull back.
Air Transport

By Helen Massy-Beresford
African LCC Fastjet warned it may not be able to survive without equity fundraising, and said it was talking to its major shareholders about such an operation.
Air Transport

By Adrian Schofield
Japanese LCC Peach has achieved its fifth consecutive annual net profit, although its profit was down from the previous financial year.
Air Transport

By Adrian Schofield
An Australian court deciding on penalties for the last two airlines involved in a long-running cargo price-fixing case imposed an A$15 million ($11 million) penalty against Air New Zealand.
Air Transport

Ben Goldstein
The U.S. Supreme Court, in a 5-to-4 vote on June 26, upheld President Donald Trump’s September 2017 directive temporarily banning nationals from seven countries from traveling to the U.S.
Air Transport

By Jens Flottau
Embraer CEO Paulo Cesar Souza e Silva reiterated his complaints about Canadian government funding for the Bombardier C Series at a company event here, as both manufacturers head towards what could be a crucial Farnborough Airshow for that program and the Embraer E-Jet E2.
Program Management

By Sean Broderick
Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings (AAW), riding a wave of strong demand across its diverse lines of business, has increased its full-year profit outlook 5% and is now projecting a 35-40% increase over 2017’s adjusted net profit of $133.7 million on revenue of $2.6 billion.
Air Transport

The U.S. Congress likely will leave the federal cap on passenger facility charges (PFC) unchanged at $4.50 per flight segment in the upcoming FAA reauthorization bill, but language in the House-passed bill would alter the program in other ways, according to people familiar with the matter.
Air Transport

By Bill Carey
FAA and the European Commission have signed an agreement that will lead to lowering fees the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) charges U.S. manufacturers to endorse design approvals, according to the U.S. agency.
Air Transport

By Helen Massy-Beresford
Plans to build a third runway at London Heathrow Airport are already facing a legal challenge after a UK parliamentary vote paved the way for Europe’s busiest airport to expand significantly.
Air Transport

By Sean Broderick
Bombardier executives acknowledge that while the large regional-jet space has several participants, the order battles will, for the foreseeable future, come down to the two major players.
Air Transport

By Adrian Schofield
Qantas has completed a cabin refurbishment on the first of its turboprop aircraft, as the group undertakes an upgrade program across its Bombardier fleet.
Air Transport

By Adrian Schofield
Proposed Vietnamese startup airline Bamboo Airways has boosted its fleet plans with a major Boeing widebody aircraft deal, supplementing an existing agreement for Airbus narrowbodies.
Air Transport

By Guy Norris
Boeing Commercial Airplanes (BCA) has joined with hypersonic specialists at Boeing’s Research & Technology unit to study a Mach 5 passenger transport capable of crossing the Atlantic Ocean in 2 hr. or the Pacific in 3 hr.

The UK House of Commons voted by a 415-119 margin to approve the building of a third runway at London Heathrow Airport.
Air Transport

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Ben Goldstein
The Trump administration revived a call to spin off U.S. air traffic control (ATC) services from FAA as part of a larger proposal to radically overhaul the federal government.
Air Transport

By Graham Warwick
Norway conducted its first electric-aircraft flight under an initiative to electrify domestic aviation by 2040.
Air Transport

By Helen Massy-Beresford
LCC Norwegian said it would launch a new twice-weekly London Gatwick-Tampa, Florida service from Oct. 31, as it also revealed increased frequencies on other routes in its long-haul winter schedule from Gatwick.
Air Transport

By Victoria Moores
Ethiopian Airlines is planning to launch new airlines in Chad, Guinea, Mozambique and Zambia before the end of 2018, CEO Tewolde Gebremariam told Aviation Daily sister publication ATW on the sidelines of the ACI Europe and World General Assembly here.
Air Transport

By Mark Nensel
Canadian LCC WestJet’s contracted regional service WestJet Link debuted June 20 with its first flight between British Columbia cities Cranbrook and Prince George, flown via a capacity purchase agreement (CPA) with Vancouver-based regional carrier Pacific Coastal Airlines.
Air Transport

By Helen Massy-Beresford
Paris airports operator Groupe ADP and Airport Authority of Hong Kong (AAHK) said they signed two memoranda of understanding (MOU) covering airport management, aviation development and cargo development aimed at strengthening cooperation between Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport (CDG) and Hong Kong International Airport (HKG).
Air Transport

By Sean Broderick
New York JFK International Airport Terminal 4 (T4) remains on firm footing following its recent expansion, with Delta Air Lines and its SkyTeam alliance partners holding a dominant, and growing, position, while vacancies are quickly snapped up by newcomers, a Fitch Ratings analysis finds.
Air Transport

By Helen Massy-Beresford
The process of choosing a new CEO for Air France-KLM is causing turbulence for the airline group after French media reports that Philippe Capron, the CFO of water and waste company Veolia, was about to be named to the post sparked a backlash.
Air Transport