The shrinking percentage of older aircraft in the world’s fleet is likely playing a key but often-overlooked role in the sluggish aftermarket performance during the current upcycle, analysts suggest.
Dutch LCC Transavia plans to feed Delta Air Lines services between the U.S. and Amsterdam Schiphol Airport following an agreement between the two carriers to add the DL code on 10 of Transavia’s European routes.
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United Airlines and the Association of Flight Attendants (AFA) have agreed to postpone a grievance hearing over whether the company is properly allocating its new Boeing 787s to its two subsidiaries—United and Continental—the union said in a March 3 message.
An aquaculture-to-biofuel pilot facility was to be commissioned in Abu Dhabi on March 6 by a research consortium that includes Boeing and Etihad Airways.
Standard & Poor’s Ratings Service has lowered its forecasts for revenue, and earnings before interest and taxes, for Bombardier for the next two years, primarily due to pressure in the company’s aerospace business, it said.
The Chinese government has named the two top leaders of the aero-engine company that it is forming by splitting off propulsion businesses from aeronautics group Avic.
Emirates’ partnership with Qantas Airways, Etihad Airways’ equity ties across two of the legacy alliance groups, joint ventures, the advent of the next generation of long-haul low-cost carriers—these are just a few of many more issues that have led a number of observers to conclude that the era of the three global alliances is over.
Air China has applied to open a route between Shanghai and San Jose, California, moving for a second time in four months to take a market that Hainan Airlines looked likely to enter.
A newly registered airline backed by one of China’s largest travel agency groups aims to begin flying next year, partly emulating the business model of Shanghai-based Spring Airlines.
As Virgin America now “has adequate financial resources to support additional expansion,” the U.S. Transportation Department (DOT) ruled on March 2 that the carrier no longer must seek government approval each time it wants to add aircraft.
That U.S. carriers are interested in flying to Cuba is an understatement, as applications for routes have far exceeded slots made available by the bilateral air service agreement the two countries formally signed last month.
Low oil prices may yet prove a boon to airlines and passengers, but at least one sub-sector of the commercial aviation world is staring at “scary” prospects.
Despite delays in the delivery of Singapore Airlines’ initial Airbus A350-900s, the carrier remains on track to receive its full quota of aircraft this year.
