The Department of Transportation (DOT) on July 20 tentatively approved American Airlines, Delta Air Lines, Hawaiian Airlines, and United Airlines as proposed candidates to provide daytime service to Tokyo Haneda Airport.
Chicago-based United Airlines is slowing capacity growth in the second half of 2016, and on transatlantic routes will cut fourth-quarter capacity by 1–2% compared to the 2015 December quarter.
All Nippon Airways is part of a focus group of Boeing airline customers helping to shape the manufacturer’s potential middle-of-the-market aircraft, ANA Holdings Chairman Shinichiro Ito said.
Budapest-based Wizz Air will scale back its planned capacity growth on U.K. routes after the British pound’s sharp devaluation that followed the U.K.’s vote to leave the EU.
Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank (SuMi Trust), one of Japan’s well-known financial institutions, and Novus Aviation Capital, a global aircraft leasing platform, on July 20 announced the launch of the $200 million Ortus Aircraft Leasing Fund.
Malaysia’s airport authority is taking steps to prevent a recurrence of the flooding that affected the country’s third-largest airport in Penang this week.
Nav Canada’s board of directors on July 14 approved a two-phase cut in service fees charged to airlines operating to, from or over Canada’s airspace in the 2017 fiscal year, which starts Sept. 1.
Delta Air Lines executives said they are not concerned by the money-losing first-half 2016 performance of the company’s Trainer, Pennsylvania, oil refinery.
Boeing has secured its largest contract award yet for early design of America’s next presidential airliner, as the amount of time and money it takes to keep the current Air Force One fleet flying increases.
the first facility in Europe designed to recycle aeronautical-grade titanium is being built near Clermont-Ferrand, France, in a bid to reduce the region’s dependence on imports.
Mitsubishi has hired more expatriate experts to support its Seattle-based engineering center as well for as certification work at its Nagoya, Japan, headquarters, Mitsubishi Aircraft Corp. President Hiromichi Morimoto said.
Japanese LCC Vanilla Air has taken a major step in its effort to develop Taipei, Taiwan, as a focus city, launching its first international one-stop flight beyond Taipei.
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25 Years Ago July 19, 1991—Pan Am and Delta Air Lines explore allowing bankrupt Pan Am to survive as a standalone entity. This follows Pan Am’s refusal to sell its Latin American routes to United Airlines for $200 million. Delta plans to buy Pan Am’s European routes, its Northeast U.S. shuttle and 45 aircraft for $260 million.
British Airways (BA) cabin crewmembers are increasingly concerned that a new performance-measurement plan is being used as a means to replace senior staff with employees on new contracts.
