FedEx Corp. has named longtime company executive David Cunningham president and CEO of FedEx Express, the cargo delivery company’s airline arm and largest operating unit.
The much-delayed opening of Berlin Brandenburg Airport is expected to be postponed once again, after the discovery of new technical glitches with the control systems in the terminal doors, which present a fire safety risk.
Emirates will add a second transatlantic service from Europe to the U.S. in March, introducing daily flights from Athens, Greece, to Newark Liberty International Airport.
2016 was below expectations for regional aircraft manufacturer ATR, as it received fewer orders for its ATR 42/72 turboprops and delivered fewer of them than predicted one year ago.
Thai Airways has launched a range of anticorruption measures, after the airline was among those named in extensive investigations into illegal payments by Rolls-Royce.
New certification requirements have forced Mitsubishi Aircraft to revise the design of the MRJ, the company said as it confirmed that the target for first delivery of the regional jet has slipped two years to mid-2020.
Cathay Pacific Airways in April will begin installing an Avionica cockpit connectivity suite in its fleet of Boeing 777s as part of an updated “e-enablement” of four aircraft types (the 777, Boeing 747, Airbus A320 and A330) in its mainline and Cathay Dragon regional fleets by mid-2019.
IATA’s quarterly survey of airline chief financial officers and cargo heads, released Jan. 19, reveals a slight uptick in optimism for profits in 2017.
The International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers petitioned the National Labor Relations Board Jan. 20 to hold an election to unionize more than 2,850 production employees at Boeing’s North Charleston, South Carolina, plant.
The MRJ is no closer to scheduled first delivery than it was at the beginning of the decade. As the years have passed, successive delays have added an equal number of years to the development program.
Although All Nippon Airways does not plan to introduce any new international routes this summer, it will be adding frequency or boosting premium offerings in some key markets.
Chinese authorities are still considering adding a fourth runway to Beijing Capital International Airport, even as construction of a new airport promises to ease the city’s capacity shortage.
Japan Airlines is reshuffling some of its flights this summer to offer its first service to New York from Tokyo Haneda Airport, and will also boost capacity in the New York and Honolulu markets.
Julia Haywood is leaving United Airlines to return to the Boston Consulting Group (BCG), just six months after she took the chief commercial officer job at the Chicago-based airline.
In the last week of the Obama administration, the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) has proposed that airlines and ticket agents be required to disclose specific baggage fees when providing airfare information.
