Republic Airways has almost 20 larger Embraer regional jets it has grounded because it lacks pilots to fly them, and if it cannot reach agreements with “numerous parties” before April 25 regarding those aircraft, it may have to terminate all of the leases, CEO Bryan Bedford told employees.
The two explosions within Brussels Airport (BRU) on the morning of March 22 and the blast in a subway station near EU buildings were the work of terrorists, Belgian officials said.
Major U.S. airlines involved in antitrust-immunized joint ventures with foreign airlines should have “nothing to hide” from periodic U.S. government reviews of those JVs, JetBlue Airways CEO Robin Hayes says.
U.S. NTSB and Boeing investigators were slated to join a Russian and United Arab Emirates team at the Rostov-on-Don Airport to search for what caused FlyDubai Flight 981, a Boeing 737-800, to impact the ground after a second attempt at landing on Runway 22 in the early morning hours of March 19 in low clouds and high winds.
The U.S. Transportation Department (DOT) has formally granted Air Serbia a foreign air carrier permit, allowing the flag airline to operate to the U.S. with its own aircraft.
United Airlines will pay roughly half its flight attendants a total of $3 million in lost wages and benefits and transfer three Boeing 787s from one of its two subsidiaries to the other to settle a grievance filed by the Association of Flight Attendants (AFA).
Australia’s Federal Court has upheld the claim by regulators that two major foreign airlines engaged in cargo price-fixing, overturning a previous ruling in the airlines’ favor.
State-controlled China Eastern Airlines is hoping for more strategic investment to follow the 3.55% stake that Delta Air Lines acquired last year, while also trying to attract more government capital.
Strikes called by a union representing government workers threaten to cause major disruptions at Australian airports over the next few weeks, particularly on the busy Thursday travel day before the Easter holiday weekend.
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Only weeks after having won a long legal battle over codesharing services with Etihad, Air Berlin dropped one of the key affected routes for commercial reasons.
Despite Canada’s relatively weak economy and currency, the country’s airline industry is in strong shape and should produce roughly C$1.5 billion (U.S. $1.15 billion) in profit this year, according to a new report from the Conference Board of Canada, an independent, not-for-profit research organization.
More and more airlines are giving ultra-long-haul flights another try as two fundamentals have shifted dramatically: Fuel prices are close to where they were when the first experiment on ultra-long-haul flying started 12 years ago; and, possibly more important, next-generation widebodies such as the Boeing 787 and Airbus A350 make the flights more commercially viable.
Airbus plans to establish a pilot and maintenance training center in India, taking a major step toward securing a dominant position in the country’s aviation market.
Boeing Flight Services has sent instructors to implement a flight training program for Thai LCC Nok Air as the carrier looks to alleviate a pilot shortage.
