Delta will offer daily seasonal service between Salt Lake City-London Heathrow Airport from May 1. The airline will operate a 210-seat Boeing 767-300ER aircraft on the route, Delta spokeswoman Liz Savadelis said.
The Partnership for Fair & Open Skies—a group comprising Delta Air Lines, American Airlines, United Airlines and several labor groups—said Abu Dhabi has given Etihad annual cash infusions since 2007, but last year the total government investment in Etihad reached a record $5 billion.
Virgin America—which provided an aircraft for the EASA STC—was the U.S. launch customer for Nexis. The system includes two electronic flight bags (EFBs) and two servers that offer connections to aircraft-avionics data, in part to run Astronautics’ ADS-B applications, as well as partitions to allow for safely using third-party applications.
Moreover, foreign carriers are growing markedly faster than French operators, even on domestic routes—a trend already apparent last year, according to data from the French Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGAC).
The agency has granted Gogo a supplemental type certificate allowing it to fly with all of the needed 2Ku equipment on its Boeing 737-500 test aircraft—a key milestone for starting installations with airline customers.
Gulf carriers such as Qatar Airways, Etihad Airways and Emirates Airline account for 75% of the Airbus A380s scheduled to be delivered between 2015-17.
The airline is now offering the Mint cabin on the historically competitive transcontinental routes between New York’s John F. Kennedy Airport and Los Angeles as well as San Francisco, but plans to expand the service to Boston in 2016.
Delta Air Lines—which offers flatbed seats on flights from New York to Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) and San Francisco (SFO)—will increase its transcontinental offerings in November, spokesman Anthony Black said.
Relations between Republic and IBT leaders are rocky—the union even filed a federal lawsuit last month against the company, accusing it of overpaying pilots in an attempt to undercut its bargaining position—and it’s not clear whether labor leaders want pilots to vote on the proposal.
The Delta Master Executive Council (MEC) of ALPA endorsed the tentative labor deal in June and sent it to the airline’s nearly 13,000 pilots for a ratification vote.
Details of the new agreement will not be released until the FedEx ALPA Master Executive Council (MEC) has reviewed and approved the new contract, the union and FedEx said.
“That KLM would disappear is unthinkable. Because without the airline there is no future for Schiphol, it is as simple as that,” Schiphol Group CEO Jos Nijhuis said.
