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.
IATA Director General Tony Tyler is optimistic that world governments will agree on a global carbon offsetting system for commercial aviation later this year.
Rolls-Royce has completed delivery of the initial shipset of Trent 900s to Airbus for installation on the first of 52 Rolls-powered A380s for Emirates.
Airline leaders at the Phoenix Sky Harbor International Aviation Symposium say they remain concerned that protectionism is rising and could threaten further liberalization in the global airline industry.
Endeavor Air, a subsidiary of Delta Air Lines, has not had a single controllable cancellation in more than two months, the regional airline’s CEO said in an interview at the Regional Airline Association conference here.
Mexican LCC Volaris plans to launch a Costa Rican subsidiary to serve the growing Central American market, Chief Commercial Officer Holger Blankenstein said.
The FAA has expanded its efforts to prevent unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) flying too close to airports by signing cooperative research agreements with an additional three suppliers of counter-UAS systems.
Emirates Airline experienced dramatic shifts in key cost, revenue and performance factors in 2015, but nevertheless managed to significantly raise its overall profitability and reach an operating profit margin of close to 10%.
CHICAGO—SAS has awarded Eirtech Aviation a multimillion-euro contract to provide redelivery support for more than 40 leased aircraft during the next four years.
Concerned about the conduct of some accident investigations and a lack of data from certain regions, the International Air Transportation Association’s (IATA) forensics arm is suggesting the need for regional or multistate accident investigation boards.
