ALC is “in the process of accelerating certain positions from Boeing into 2018 and 2019,” and monitoring the used-aircraft sales market to offset any delivery delays from Airbus.
The pilots of a landing Air Canada Airbus A320 that nearly plowed into several aircraft at the San Francisco International Airport (SFO) around midnight July 7 were visually confused by the runway lighting.
Global air-freight traffic has increased 10.4% during the first half of 2017, making it the strongest half-year performance for the air-cargo market sector in seven years.
Hawaiian is expected to receive another nine next year, with the majority of these set for delivery in the first half, CEO Mark Dunkerley told Aviation Daily on the sidelines of the CAPA Australia Pacific Aviation Summit.
Taiwan’s China Airlines has refined schedules to reduce waiting times for passengers on connecting flights, while also exploiting the range of new aircraft to replace one-stop services with direct flights.
Tighter integration with subsidiaries is one of a range of measures that Taiwan’s China Airlines has adopted to improve performance in response to strengthening competition.
Singapore Airlines has introduced a voluntary unpaid leave program to temporarily reduce flight attendant numbers, and the carrier plans to use it again as needed.
Air France said it would extend its no-fly area around North Korea as a precaution after a test missile fell into the sea July 28 around 100 km (62 mi.) from an Air France aircraft on its way from Tokyo to Paris.
Canada’s WestJet Airlines plans to launch an ultra-low cost carrier (ULCC) next summer, management said during the company’s second-quarter earnings call.
Pilots in some cases appear to be avoiding a special type of crushable concrete designed to gently stop an aircraft from overrunning the end of a runway—a finding that is puzzling to FAA officials.
Qatar Airways had sought to buy a 4.75% stake in American, with the goal of taking up to a 10% stake. American’s board would have had to review any investment above 4.75%.
“We have a strategic focus on the fast-growing Chinese and Asian markets, and we have added five new customers there this year,” Atlas President and CEO William Flynn said.
Lufthansa Group said its first-half profit rose, boosted by strong demand and lower unit costs across its passenger airlines, adding to the chorus of European airlines reporting improvements in ticket pricing.
Parker said the previous application was in some ways the victim of bad timing, with the decision coming around the transition between the Obama and Trump administrations.
Suspending most of its poorly-performing Middle East routes has allowed Cebu Pacific to use its Airbus A330s to help solve headaches in other parts of its network.
