Asiana Airlines is experiencing the same passenger yield pressure and cargo weakness as many of its Asia-Pacific regional rivals, and those factors are hurting its financial performance.
25 Years Ago May 16, 1991—Trans World Airlines has announced a cash tender offer to offload some of its heavy debt in a “restructuring designed to enable TWA to survive.” The buyback would be financed mainly through the $445 million TWA reaped from selling three of its prized London routes to American Airlines. 50 Years Ago
While descending into Dublin during a flight from Newark, New Jersey, the crew of a United Airlines Boeing 757-200 acted in a “nonstandard” manner in responding to an unreliable airspeed indication—an issue most likely caused by ice crystals in the right-side pitot probe.
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Trans States Holdings and SkyWest Inc., the two U.S. regionals with orders for the Mitsubishi MRJ90, remain committed to the aircraft—but executives from both companies expressed reservations recently about whether they will be able to take the aircraft.
Eight Asia-Pacific regional LCCs have formed an alliance that will allow them to interline on each other’s networks and compete more effectively with the giant LCC groups.
SAN FRANCISCO—Hawaiian Airlines has won the right to operate between Tokyo Haneda Airport and Honolulu and Kona, Hawaii, the Transportation Department (DOT) announced May 13.  
Within the space of 2 hr. 3 min. in November 2013, industrious mud-dauber wasps built a nest in the pilot-side pitot probe of an in-transit Etihad Airways Airbus A330 as it sat on the ground at Brisbane Airport in Australia.
Brussels Airport (BRU) is not reviewing its incentive policy, even though attracting new airlines is becoming increasingly hard due to recurring labor disputes following the March 22 terrorist attacks, the airport’s CEO said.
Korean Air is set to receive additional widebody aircraft that will help upgrade its passenger and cargo fleets, and allow the carrier to retire its remaining 747-400s by the end of 2017.
Great Lakes Airlines will soon announce an agreement with Frontier Airlines to allow some pilots at the regional carrier to take jobs at Frontier after flying as little as two years for Great Lakes.
European regulators and EasyJet are studying new approval and operational rules for electronic flight bags (EFBs) following a series of incidents involving takeoffs where pilots mistakenly set too little takeoff power.
Piedmont Airlines and its parent, American Airlines, soon must make decisions about the future of the regional carrier’s Bombardier Dash 8 fleet, as some of its aircraft will reach a limit on how many cycles they can perform, while others eventually will run up against a federal mandate requiring updated cockpits.
All Nippon Airways has confirmed it will use new slot awards at Tokyo Haneda Airport to transfer two of its U.S. flights that currently are served from Tokyo Narita Airport.
Dramatic improvements from Singapore Airlines’ subsidiary carriers—particularly Scoot—have helped to offset the parent carrier’s revenue weakness and deepening losses in its cargo unit.
