By not allowing the establishment of Jetstar Hong Kong—partly owned by the Qantas Group—the Hong Kong government applied its ownership rules differently than it has for other carriers, Joyce said at the CAPA Australia Pacific Aviation Summit.
The LCC accepted a longstanding demand from cabin crew to include the holiday-pay allowance in the pay deal and to award a wage increase of 4.1% for cabin crew, and 5.1% for cabin managers, backdated to January.
MAS is in the middle of a major restructuring effort that will cut its costs dramatically. This will allow the carrier to adopt a “modular product offering,” enabling it to compete for budget and full-service traffic, Müller said at the CAPA Australia Pacific Aviation Summit.
Around 50 employees are already working at the Seattle Engineering Center in the south of the city, which will be operated by AeroTEC, a Seattle-based aerospace engineering consultancy which provides flight-testing, data analysis and FAA-certification support.
Berlin Mayor Michael Müller and the Prime Ministers of the states of Northrine-Westfalia and Baden-Wuerttemberg wrote a letter to Germany’s Transport Minister Alexander Dobrindt, urging him to extend the approval that would allow Air Berlin and Etihad to continue codesharing on the important Berlin-Abu Dbabi and Stuttgart-Abu Dhabi routes, as well as on many European connecting flights beyond Berlin.
ANA is adding three new flights from Haneda to China: one daily Haneda-Guangzhou service, and second daily flights on existing routes to Beijing and Shanghai.
A new coalition of U.S. airlines has thrown its support behind the government’s existing open skies policy, in direct opposition to the groups led by the legacy carriers, which have called for the U.S. to begin consultations with the governments of Qatar and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and to freeze incoming capacity from those countries.
The sale is expected to close in the third quarter. The acquisition will add Precision Castparts’ capabilities in the aircraft sector, the company said.
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United Airlines is reverting to a pre-merger United policy that will permit all pilots to taxi before they receive final weights, the carrier said in a memo dated July 31.
Bulgaria and Romania have taken all necessary initiatives per the mandates of the Single European Sky (SES) legislation to make their common airspace more efficient and establish a Functional Airspace Block (FAB), prompting the European Commission (EC) to close the infringement procedures against the two countries.
The ownership of British regional airlines, bmi Regional and Loganair is to be consolidated under newly established company Airline Investments Limited (AIL).
SkyWest, Inc. will continue to shrink the fleets of its two regional carriers in an attempt to improve profitability, executives said during a call with investors last week.
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) has begun final assembly of the last of seven airframes that will be used in the main certification program for the Mitsubishi Aircraft MRJ regional jet.
Resuming stalled talks with Hong Kong is among the Australian government’s main international aviation goals, as it negotiates new or revised bilateral air service agreements with several countries.
Australia’s airports are among the largest beneficiaries of the rapid growth in Chinese international travelers, and industry officials expect this market to become even more important in the near future.
During his 10 years as Boeing’s CEO, Jim McNerney was resolute that the company would not offshore major operations. When I asked him two months ago about the possibility of assembling Boeing airliners in China, where rival Airbus already has a plant, he was almost dismissive. “You know, my thinking really hasn’t changed,” he replied.
Virgin America’s first class yields between its major West Coast cities and New York John F. Kennedy Airport (JFK) have decreased 30-40% since JetBlue Airways introduced its Mint product, David Cush, Virgin America CEO, said.
AirAsia has raised the stakes in its dispute with the operator of Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA), demanding compensation over the condition of the apron around the terminal used by the carrier.
