SAN FRANCISCO—Hawaiian Airlines has won the right to operate between Tokyo Haneda Airport and Honolulu and Kona, Hawaii, the Transportation Department (DOT) announced May 13.  
Within the space of 2 hr. 3 min. in November 2013, industrious mud-dauber wasps built a nest in the pilot-side pitot probe of an in-transit Etihad Airways Airbus A330 as it sat on the ground at Brisbane Airport in Australia.
Brussels Airport (BRU) is not reviewing its incentive policy, even though attracting new airlines is becoming increasingly hard due to recurring labor disputes following the March 22 terrorist attacks, the airport’s CEO said.
Korean Air is set to receive additional widebody aircraft that will help upgrade its passenger and cargo fleets, and allow the carrier to retire its remaining 747-400s by the end of 2017.
Great Lakes Airlines will soon announce an agreement with Frontier Airlines to allow some pilots at the regional carrier to take jobs at Frontier after flying as little as two years for Great Lakes.
European regulators and EasyJet are studying new approval and operational rules for electronic flight bags (EFBs) following a series of incidents involving takeoffs where pilots mistakenly set too little takeoff power.
Piedmont Airlines and its parent, American Airlines, soon must make decisions about the future of the regional carrier’s Bombardier Dash 8 fleet, as some of its aircraft will reach a limit on how many cycles they can perform, while others eventually will run up against a federal mandate requiring updated cockpits.
All Nippon Airways has confirmed it will use new slot awards at Tokyo Haneda Airport to transfer two of its U.S. flights that currently are served from Tokyo Narita Airport.
Dramatic improvements from Singapore Airlines’ subsidiary carriers—particularly Scoot—have helped to offset the parent carrier’s revenue weakness and deepening losses in its cargo unit.
Swiss International Air Lines initially will fly its first Bombardier CS100 to a limited number of destinations, but the airliner will fly a normal schedule of as many as eight flights per day soon after launching commercial operations July 15.
LONDON—London’s Heathrow Airport has promised to end night flights as part of a package of measures that could help boost the chances of reaching political consensus for a third runway.
Nearly one-quarter of all airline accidents in 2015 were due to hard landings, an issue that appears to be worsening, according to the International Air Transport Association.
Republic Airways Holdings expects its airline operations to be under a single operating certificate and fleet type by December, and could emerge from bankruptcy by year’s end, CEO Bryan Bedford said May 11 in a briefing at the Regional Airline Association conference here.
The head of British Airways’ parent company said he would fight against the proposal to build a third runway at London Heathrow Airport, calling it “indefensible” from a cost point of view.
Southwest Airlines is in what it calls the “first phase” of its expansion in Mexico. At first the low-cost carrier will target leisure routes to resort destinations, but that will change as it begins a second phase, an executive with the Dallas-based carrier said in an interview here.
A group of regulators, air navigation service providers (ANSP), manufacturers and operators is being formed to draft a global interoperability blueprint for unmanned aircraft system (UAS) traffic management (UTM).
South Korean carrier Jin Air is poised to add more narrow- and widebody aircraft to its fleet over the next few months, and expects further increases in 2017.
Mitsubishi is betting U.S. regional carriers and their major-airline partners will be more interested in its MRJ-family jets, now that all three legacy carriers are emphasizing passenger experience on smaller aircraft, a Mitsubishi executive said at the Regional Airline Association conference here.
The parent company of Canadian regional carrier Jazz Aviation will purchase new regional jets and reconfigure some of its existing aircraft with more seats.
