Brussels Airport reopened for commercial passenger traffic 12 days after suicide bombers attacked its departure hall, but the new and vastly enhanced security procedures were criticized by the German airports association.
A plan to set up an HNA Group airline at Ningbo has survived the downfall of the eastern Chinese city’s mayor, with operations now seen as beginning as early as October.
Singapore-based LCC Scoot is likely to announce its first three Indian destinations within the next month, further expanding the Singapore Airlines Group’s presence on the subcontinent.
Italy’s Tecnam has rolled out the P2012 Traveller, a piston twin aimed at meeting demand for a new nine-passenger airliner to replace types such as the Cessna 402C operated by Cape Air.
The southern Chinese city of Shenzhen is rapidly developing intercontinental air links, to the detriment of adjacent Hong Kong and that self-governing city’s major carrier, Cathay Pacific Airways.
AirAsia expects to raise 1 billion Malaysian ringgit ($257 million) by selling a new share issue to the airline’s two founders, in a move that is designed to strengthen the carrier’s balance sheet.
Hong Kong airline HK Express plans to boost its network in Japan this summer as it adds flights to new leisure destinations and increases Tokyo frequencies.
Air China says it will employ forthcoming Boeing 787-9s on services from Beijing to Rome and Frankfurt, replacing Airbus A330-200s and 777-300ERs, respectively.
Kenya Airways is planning to trim its 4,000-person workforce by 15%—about 600 employees—as part of a comprehensive restructuring process to secure its survival and end years of losses.
Reports that Virgin America is up for sale and talking to Alaska Airlines and JetBlue Airways poses the question: Which would be the better merger partner?
Southwest Airlines, which recently was awarded four slots at Long Beach Airport near Los Angeles, said on March 31 that it will operate four flights to Oakland International Airport most days, starting in June.
Airports across Europe and national authorities have stepped up their security measures following the terror attacks at the Brussels Airport departures hall March 22, but European Commission (EC) experts and the bloc’s member-states are against immediate implementation of a stringent EU-wide regime to bolster security at the landside areas of airports.
Winnipeg’s NewLeaf Travel Co., which has a business model akin to an ultra-LCC but does not operate any aircraft under its own certificate, can resume startup plans now that the Canadian Transportation Agency has determined—on March 29—that the company does not need its own air license.
