LONDON—A strike by about 400 Swedish pilots at SAS Scandinavian Airlines showed no sign of ending June 13, as the carrier announced that 230 flights and 27,000 passengers would be affected.
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LONDON—The government of the British Overseas Territory of St. Helena said there are no plans to mothball the remote island’s new airport, despite problems associated with wind shear preventing the start of regular air services.
The Transportation Department (DOT) has awarded six U.S. airlines the rights to fly to secondary cities in Cuba, deferring a decision on Havana routes, for now.
Mbuvi Ngunze, CEO of Kenya Airways Group, is confident the carrier will reduce its operating loss this year as the first measures of a comprehensive restructuring program kick in.
The FAA and its aviation medical examiners—physicians who evaluate commercial airline pilots every six months to one year—are considering several options to break through actual or perceived “firewalls” that prevent them from alerting airlines when they observe potential mental-health issues during routine or special examinations.
hinese investors are continuing to show keen interest in Virgin Australia, with China-based Nanshan Group reaching a deal to purchase most of Air New Zealand’s stake in the Australian airline.
SAN FRANCISCO—Iceland-based WOW Air inaugurated service June 9 between San Francisco and Reykjavik, the first nonstop flights between Iceland and San Francisco since Icelandair ceased its operations at San Francisco International Airport in the mid-2000s.
Answered by Ludek Stasek, technical director for Czech carrier that provides scheduled, charter and business-jet flights to more than 300 airports. Travel Service launched scheduled service in 2004. It flew 5.7 million passengers in 2015.
PARIS—Faced with mounting bottlenecks at the supplier level, French aerospace primes are taking both conventional and unorthodox steps to ensure that a boost in production of several major programs stays on track.
