The International Civil Aviation Agency is coordinating with relevant agencies on procedures and responses for the air transport industry on the Zika virus.
TAP Portugal’s management is confident it will be able to continue its fleet renewal and route restructuring despite the U-turn by the Portuguese government on privatizing the flag carrier.
Prosperous Shenzhen has become the latest Chinese secondary city to open intercontinental air links, with China Southern Airlines beginning flights to Sydney and Xiamen Airlines planning a service to Seattle.
A measure to split air traffic control (ATC) and modernization away from the FAA into a non-profit corporation survived cleared its first congressional hurdle on Feb. 11, emerging modified but relatively unscathed from the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee.
European Commissioner for Transport Violeta Bulc intends to discuss Norwegian Air International’s (NAI) and Norwegian Air UK’s (NUK) pending applications for permission to serve the U.S., at high-level meetings in Washington later this month, Aviation Daily has learned.
Virgin Australia is preparing to reduce its regional aircraft fleet in an effort to improve the productivity of its domestic operation and solidify its return to profitability.
U.S. regulators have approved the sale of a majority stake in Hawaiian turboprop operator Island Air. Two entities managed by local investment firm PacifiCap are buying a controlling interest from Ohana Airlines Holdings, owned by Larry Ellison. OAH will retain a non-controlling interest. Les Murashige, a previous president of Island Air, will return as president and CEO, taking over from current CEO David Pflieger. Rob Mauracher, another former Island Air CEO, will be chief operating officer.
A foreign carrier could operate the only cabotage route in the U.S. for the next 12 months if the U.S. Transportation Department (DOT) extends Polynesian Airlines’ exemption.
Although Garuda Indonesia is set to enlarge its fleet with new deliveries this year, it still has not decided between the Airbus A350 or Boeing 787 to fill its long-term replacement needs. The airline is continuing to assess the two aircraft types, in a process that began last year. It is “still finalizing its widebody refleeting plans by studying the A350-900 and 787-9 fuel efficiency and operating costs before making a final decision,” a Garuda spokesman told Aviation Daily.
HNA Group carrier Tianjin Airlines, moving into long-haul operations this year, proposes to begin three low-frequency services to London and Moscow in June.
Spirit Airlines is evaluating whether it should reduce capacity in network airline hubs and add more flying from more smaller and medium-sized cities, new CEO Robert Fornaro said on Feb. 9.
As recently as eight years ago, only one airline flew between Los Angeles and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) or Qatar—but this summer, three carriers will fly four daily flights, and a senior Emirates executive told Aviation Daily there is plenty of demand to fill most seats in economy and business class.
Although the references are oblique, the Obama Administration appears to be open to an FAA restructuring in its just-released fiscal year 2017 budget, which calls for $15.9 billion to operate the agency, up slightly from the $15.8 billion appropriated by Congress for fiscal year 2016.
NASA is seeking a significant increase in money for aeronautics research to fund a series of large-scale subsonic and supersonic civil-aircraft X-plane demonstrators to prove the benefits of technologies developed with industry.
Orders for the Comac C919 from China’s three big state airlines are unlikely to appear until the state manufacturer is able to confirm the performance of the 158-seat airliner.
British Airways (BA) will be flying from London Stansted Airport (STN) this summer to four leisure destinations, a move which will bring it in direct competition with Ryanair or possibly is a precursor to a new cooperation with Europe’s largest LCC.
