Confusion between the crew of an Iberia Airbus A320 and ground control at Munich Airport appears to be behind a Jan. 20 incident in which two deicing vehicles were nearly knocked over, according to an interim report by the German Federal Bureau of Aircraft Accident Investigation (BFU).
A strategy of rapid international growth is continuing to pay off for All Nippon Airways Holdings (ANA), helping the company double its annual net profit.
Japan Airlines (JAL) has underlined its remarkable rebound since its emergence from bankruptcy protection by raising annual net profit to ¥174.4 billion ($1.6 billion).
Allegiant Air said April 28 it has reached two separate agreements to add 11 used Airbus A320-family aircraft for delivery between December 2017 and February 2020, though the carrier did not say from where the aircraft will come.
JetBlue Airways is expanding at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport, the company told analysts on its first-quarter earnings conference call.
As Cathay Pacific Airways begins a new round of contract talks with its pilots union, the airline has stressed the importance of resolving their long-running labor dispute by the end of May.
The boards of Lufthansa and Brussels Airlines have agreed to postpone until the end of August a decision on the German carrier taking full control of the Belgian airline.
Small but steadily growing Taiwanese budget carrier V Air will make Okinawa its 10th international destination as it follows a strategy of flying mainly tourism routes, often with low frequencies.
Boeing posted a first-quarter net profit of $1.2 billion, down from net income of $1.3 billion in the prior-year period, and reaffirmed its projections that full-year 2016 revenue and commercial aircraft deliveries will be down slightly from 2015.
Japanese authorities have awarded All Nippon Airways and Japan Airlines new daytime slots to serve the U.S. from Tokyo Haneda Airport, with ANA receiving more than JAL.
Vietnam Airlines and Qantas Airways have agreed to invest a combined $139 million in Vietnamese joint-venture LCC Jetstar Pacific to fund planned fleet growth.
Tony Tyler, director general and CEO of the International Air Transport Association, again has condemned additional security measures at Brussels Airport (BRU), and said the progress of the Single European Sky (SES) project is “frustratingly slow.”
PARIS—French electronics group Thales has been selected to supply an air traffic control (ATC) radar to Iran’s Mehrabad International Airport following an international tender, the company said April 22.
