Despite continuing pressure from weak foreign currencies and fuel-surcharge reductions in international markets, Hawaiian Airlines remains on track for a record annual profit, according to airline executives.
Hainan Airlines has chosen the Rolls-Royce Trent 700 engine for an increased total of around 45 Airbus A330s that the carrier will receive from two national bulk orders for the type, industry sources say.
A330 Multi Role Tanker Transport (MRTT) tankers will be available in the next decade as newly built aircraft, not only as converted used airliners, according to Airbus.
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SR Technics’ strategy to transform its Zurich base into a center of excellence for cabin modifications rather than focusing on base maintenance is paying off, as evidenced by new contracts from Scandinavian Airlines (SAS) and Air Europa.
The U.S. Transportation Department plans to finalize what will likely be an emergency rule by mid-December requiring past, present and future drone owners to register the devices with the FAA.
Hawaiian Airlines is planning a redesign of the premium cabin on its Airbus A330 fleet, which will feature lie-flat business-class seats and an expanded premium-economy section.
IndiGo, India’s biggest and most-profitable airline, will sell its shares on the stock market in an initial public offering (IPO) valued at up to $500 million, as it seeks to retain control of the country’s highly competitive aviation market.
Wages in the Chinese airframe-maintenance industry are rising much more slowly than the formerly common rate of 10% per year, industry managers in the country say.
United Airlines is asking IATA for help after its aircraft took several diversions into Ninoy Aquino International Airport in Manila, Philippines, because of “traffic-management” issues, Senior Vice President-Flight Operations Howard Attarian said in a note to pilots.
All Nippon Airways (ANA) will further boost its European network, thanks to codeshare arrangements with three new partners: Brussels Airlines, Germanwings and Eurowings.
The SNPL—which represents about 70% of the French carrier’s pilots—agreed to increase productivity by 20% from 2011-14, as part of a comprehensive turnaround program to bring Air France-KLM back to profitability.
As part of that process, the regulator is sending questionnaires to relevant companies in order to learn more about how they develop maintenance contracts, among other things.
An unnoticed altitude on a controller’s screen and an unanticipated aerobatic maneuver by a training aircraft put an Air Canada Jazz Dash 8 and two-seat Zlin in dangerously close proximity as the Dash 8 departed Sault St. Marie Airport in Canada for Toronto in good weather on the afternoon of Sept. 3, 2014.
Denver International Airport executives are talking with Copa Airlines about starting a flight to Panama City, after United Airlines removed considerable capacity from the route, airport CEO Kim Day told Aviation Daily.
Pilots at Allegiant Air have asked the National Mediation Board to release it from labor negotiations with the airline, but a senior executive at the Las Vegas-based carrier said the request is too premature
Mitsubishi Aircraft Corporation is encouraged by CityJet’s decision to order Sukhoi Superjet 100s, as it shows that new entrants can “break into this conservative market,” according to Yoshihisa Kumagai, the airframer’s president for Europe.
A Southwest Airlines Boeing 737 flight from Houston Hobby Airport (HOU) to Cancun, Mexico, on Oct. 15 inaugurated Southwest’s international concourse at HOU.
EVA Airways plans to order up to 24 Boeing 787-10s and two 777-300ERs in a move that is likely to extend the considerable expansion of the Taiwanese carrier’s fleet that is already underway.
