Citing significant improvements in operational performance, United Airlines’ acting CEO said the company is successfully navigating the last few months’ rapid chief executive turnover.
Virgin America is confident it will add roughly five or six Airbus A320-family aircraft per year in 2017, 2018 and 2019, even though the carrier has not finalized how it will source them, CFO Peter Hunt said earlier this month.
Exploitation of crucial flight slots has been a key factor in the decision of SF Express—China’s largest freighter operator—to order Boeing 767-300s converted to freighters, the company says.
Avianca Brasil is going from 15% capacity growth in 2015, to adding no additional capacity next year, as the airline tries to deal with the economic recession in its home market.
Amazon has revealed the latest prototype of its Prime Air package-delivery small unmanned aircraft, and released a video suggesting ground and flight testing is well-advanced.
IATA boosted its 2015 collective net profit forecast for the world’s airlines to $33 billion and a 4.6% margin, up from a net profit of $29.3 billion and a 4% average net margin projected by the organization in June.
United Airlines will end its Washington Dulles-Dubai flight in January, in part because it says it cannot compete with “subsidized capacity” from Emirates Airline and Etihad Airways, the airline said on Wednesday.
Component supplier Meggitt’s revised approach to its aftermarket business underscores some fundamental changes reshaping MRO, notably the growing roles of surplus parts, strategic partnerships, and reliability data in successful support strategies.
Trying to reverse its poor operational-performance reputation, United has promised its corporate customers that it will best American Airlines and Delta Air Lines in both flight completion and on-time arrival performance in 2016.
Air France KLM recorded a slight increase in passenger numbers and load factors in November despite the terrorist attacks in Paris on Nov. 13, but the dramatic events put additional pressure on unit revenue.
Etihad Airways has formed a partnership with on-demand private-jet company, Victor. The partnership would allow customers to charter a private-aircraft connection to and from their international Airbus A380 flights.
The Port of Seattle plans to reopen the center runway at the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport “in the next week or so” after a $95 million, 7-month refurbishment and upgrade effort that includes LED runway lights and an automated foreign object debris- and wildlife-sensor system.
