LOS ANGELES—United Airlines’ top finance executive called the carrier’s margin gap relative to its peers “the elephant in the room,” and said improving it is a priority for the airline, as it tries to transform itself under new CEO Oscar Munoz.
BRUSSELS—Sukhoi Civil Aircraft Co. (SCAC) and SuperJet International have delivered a Sukhoi Superjet 100 regional aircraft to Irish-based CityJet, the company’s first European customer.
PARIS—Air France Industries KLM Engineering & Maintenance (AFI KLM E&M) has confirmed the formation of a new joint venture with Safran to bring compressor-blade repair services on some engine types back to France.
LONDON—Aerostructures and component supplier GKN is mulling the future of the maintenance, repair and overhaul businesses it inherited from its takeover of Fokker Technologies.
BRUSSELS—The European Commission (EC) may be granted four mandates to start talks on comprehensive air-transport agreements at the June 7 meeting of the EU’s Transport, Telecommunications and Energy Council in Luxembourg, Aviation Daily has learned.
American Airlines is in talks with Los Angeles World Airports “regarding plans for significant infrastructure investment,” at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) that would help the carrier grow its transpacific gateway, it said in a recent filing.
Roughly 3.2 million consumers who now fly American Airlines and LATAM Airlines Group to and from South America will save a combined $201 million annually in “aggregated equivalent fare reductions,” if regulators approve the carriers’ joint business plan, the carriers stated in a May 16 filing with the Transportation Department (DOT).
Pratt & Whitney has confirmed that the first engines incorporating hardware modifications to speed up the start time of the PW1100G geared turbofan have shipped to Airbus for installation on the A320neo.
NASA is likely to enter an agreement with China late this summer aimed at collaborating on improvements to the Asian nation’s air traffic control (ATC) system.
25 Years Ago May 23, 1991—Pan American World Airways’ assessment of its chances for survival seems to be dimming. In Pan Am’s most recent financial reports, executives cast doubt on the carrier’s ability to continue operating “through the remainder of 1991, or beyond.”
The Egyptian military has deployed an autonomous submarine to assist a multinational contingent of aircraft and ships in finding the main wreckage of EgyptAir Flight MS 804.
BRUSSELS—Ryanair will not slow down its planned capacity growth, and aims to increase market share across Europe, executives said during the carrier’s recent earnings call. &
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AUCKLAND—Vietnamese LCC Vietjet has ordered 100 Boeing 737 MAX aircraft, adding to the airline’s already extensive Airbus narrowbody aircraft order book.
