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Worldwide air freight traffic increased 6.8% year-over year in November, a 20-month high, according to the IATA Freight Market analysis.

Indonesian authorities are allowing Tigerair Australia to fly stranded passengers from Bali back to Australia, although the carrier’s regular services on its Bali routes remain suspended.

Thai Airways is due to take delivery of five more Airbus A350s in 2017, and expects to receive the next in April, an airline spokesman tells Aviation Daily.

Southwest Airlines CEO Gary Kelly dismissed questions that he is planning to retire soon, but he acknowledged that succession planning had a role in the appointment of Thomas Nealon as president.

United Airlines will retire its Boeing 747-400 fleet by the fourth quarter of 2017, a year earlier than previously announced.

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Iran Air sees significant geographic advantages for a hub airport in Teheran, Iran, compared with three Persian Gulf carriers’ hubs, but warns infrastructure delays will likely mean connecting traffic can only be developed slowly.

The FAA is proposing 12 new high-altitude jet routes along the U.S. East Coast, part of a modernization strategy to replace legacy ground-referenced routes with GPS-based, performance-based navigation (PBN) routes.

Japan’s Vanilla Air plans to launch new routes from Osaka and Tokyo over the next few months as the LCC looks to expand its domestic network.

Tigerair Australia had to abruptly halt all of its flights to Bali after Indonesian authorities changed the terms of the LCC’s authorization to serve the popular tourist destination.

Alaska Airlines is adding a handful of new routes to boost its summer schedule at its secondary hub in Portland, Oregon.

The latest Mitsubishi Aircraft MRJ prototype to arrive at the program’s U.S. test base has begun flying there.

South Korean LCC Jeju Air is boosting its fleet with orders for three Boeing 737-800s, which will be the airline’s first owned aircraft.

TOULOUSE – Airbus is sticking to its plans to ramp up production despite the recent slowdown of aircraft orders, the manufacturer insisted at its annual press conference here.

Southwest Airlines has named Thomas Nealon as the carrier’s president, with Gary Kelly retaining his title of CEO. Nealon had been Southwest’s

As Boeing closes in on completion of final assembly of the first 737-9, the longest variant of the MAX family it originally announced in 2011, the company has defined the size of the proposed additional -10X stretch variant to compete more aggressively against the Airbus A321neo.

Canadian startup NewLeaf Travel Co. said it is postponing routes to two U.S. destinations, following competitive moves from an airline thought to be WestJet.

The FAA has issued new rules that make it easier and cheaper for general aviation pilots to gain required medical certifications to fly.

After a remarkable 12-year boom, world aircraft industry output growth sputtered to a halt in 2016.

Financially struggling Alitalia is preparing to inform its labor unions about proposed further job cuts later this week, a move that is almost certain to create further disruptions and conflict.

Lufthansa Group plans to equip all 227 narrowbody aircraft in the fleets of Lufthansa, Austrian Airlines and Eurowings with broadband internet access within the next 15 months.

Lufthansa Group plans to equip all 227 narrowbody aircraft in the fleets of Lufthansa, Austrian Airlines and Eurowings with broadband internet access within the next 15 months.

Virgin Atlantic has raised an additional £32 million ($39 million) and has extended its codeshare agreement with UK regional carrier Flybe.

Now that Aeromexico and Delta Air Lines have accepted the regulatory conditions they must satisfy to start a transborder joint venture, the U.S. Transportation Department has initiated the process for transferring slots from those carriers to competitors.

Airbus has agreed to upgrade the capabilities of China Airlines in maintenance, engineering and technical training, supporting a specialist offshoot of the Taiwanese carrier that will commence operations this year.