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.
The U.K. Civil Aviation Authority has postponed a planned price hike in air show charges that would have seen administration fees for U.K. air displays increase by 100%.
An FAA reauthorization bill making its way through the U.S. Senate could require the Department of Transportation to create within two years a “final rule authorizing the carriage of property by operators of small unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) for compensation or hire within the United States.”
U.S. President Barack Obama has assured Irish President Enda Kenny that there are no political obstacles to Norwegian Air International’s (NAI) application for a foreign air carrier permit to serve the U.S., Aviation Daily has learned.
L-3 has started wing modification work on Virgin Galactic’s decommissioned Boeing 747-400, “Cosmic Girl,” the mothership for the company’s LauncherOne small satellite launch service.
Frontier Airlines has promoted President Barry Biffle to CEO, but the new title is not expected to markedly change his role, an airline spokesman said.
Virgin America, which on March 15 launched three daily nonstop flights between San Francisco and Denver, added the route because it was the top request of Google, its most profitable corporate customer.
Lufthansa Group is forecasting only a modest profit improvement in 2016 even though the flagship airline will benefit greatly from much lower fuel costs.
The launch of regular biofuel flights by United Airlines from Los Angeles is a milestone for Honeywell UOP, which developed the process being used by AltAir Fuels to convert animal fats and vegetable oils into jet fuel.
Lufthansa has decided not to take more Airbus A320neos until Pratt & Whitney has made additional modifications to the PW1100G engines, which would allow the airline to lift some of the restrictions impacting operations at this stage.
Qantas is expanding its presence in the Greater China market through its own flights and partnerships with other carriers, as it looks to tap into surging inbound demand.
American Airlines is focusing on fleet modernization and improving operational reliability, as it expects to receive 90 new aircraft this year—in addition to 215 since 2014.
An updated bilateral aviation agreement that would allow expanded traffic between Mexico and the U.S. is still awaiting approval from Mexico’s Senate, say airlines closely following the deal.
The Senate Commerce Committee's FAA authorization bill calls for a variety of changes and upgrades to programs, but nothing as drastic as the House panel’s proposal to separate the FAA’s air traffic control and modernization roles.
