Delta Air Lines will introduce two new services to Nashville, Tennessee, and San Francisco from Boston, and will ramp up frequencies on some existing routes from the East Coast city.
Retirements and new deliveries are accelerating the modernization of Cathay’s passenger and cargo fleets, according to the carrier’s latest fleet update.
Modifications specialist Jetaire says aftermarket provider AerSale illegally based its design for a fuel-tank safety system on Jetaire data and is falsely claiming to have FAA certification for the product.
LONDON—Japan has approved Iberia to be included in a Europe–Japan revenue-sharing partnership, which includes Oneworld carriers British Airways (BA), Finnair and Japan Airlines (JAL). &n
Australians should keep their red carpets cleaned and ready, because China Eastern Airlines alone may open five more routes to their country between late October and late March 2017.
Korean Air is making steady progress toward modernizing its fleet, with an influx of freighters soon expected to follow the recent arrival of new passenger widebody aircraft.
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Regulations surrounding the carriage of lithium batteries—which have been implicated in several fires aboard airliners—must be more strictly enforced, IATA and battery manufacturers said Aug. 15.
American said the DOT should require Delta to operate the flight daily with the 291-seat Boeing 777, and that Delta should not be allowed to downgauge the size of the aircraft or deviate from a daily flight.
United Airlines’ flight attendants will now work under a single contract for the first time since the carrier merged with Continental Airlines in 2010.
Indonesia’s transport ministry says the FAA has upgraded the country to a Category 1 safety rating, which will clear the way for Garuda Indonesia to resume flights to the U.S.
