Flights will be operated by Air Canada Rouge, the low-cost subsidiary Air Canada created to compete with WestJet, Air Transat and other Canadian charter carriers. Air Canada Rouge will fly Boeing 767s with 24 seats in a premium-economy section and 256 seats in economy. The summer-only service begins on May 19, 2016.
Norwegian Air Shuttle will begin operating seasonal service between New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport, Baltimore-Washington International Airport (BWI) and Boston Logan International Airport and the French Caribbean islands of Guadeloupe and Martinique, and plans to use Boeing 737-800s, configured with 186 seats.
Global Jet Fuel Prices (midpoint)* As of Month xx, 2015, compared with previous week and previous year cts/gal prev. week prev. year NY Jet Barges 179.56 -2.97 -120.49 Chicago Jet 175.51 -5.27 -145.04
After several rounds of hearings and submissions, the Hong Kong Air Transport Licensing Authority (ATLA) said it would not award the required license to Jetstar Hong Kong. The application was filed in June 2013, and while Jetstar and Qantas executives remained optimistic, the chances of approval appeared more remote as the process dragged on.
Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA) President Tim Canoll asserted that the pilot shortage cited by U.S. regional airlines is really “a pilot pay shortage” that could be alleviated by higher starting salaries and more defined career paths for flight deck crew.
The New York-based carrier is asking the DOT to approve the Qantas-American JV for three years, renewing it only “upon a further showing by the joint applicants that the consumer benefits described in the joint application have been realized,” JetBlue said in its filing.
“With the shift underway in the global economy to emerging markets, remaining connected and open for business is an absolute imperative for Europe. This is why open skies should be a no-brainer,” ACI Europe President Arnaud Feist said.
Judge Lord Michael Jones on June 19 upheld a demand made last month by Frank Mulholland, the Lord Advocate for Scotland, for the release of the cockpit voice recording from the CHC Scotia-operated AS332L2 Super Puma helicopter that crashed into the sea shortly before it was due to land at Sumburgh Airport in the Shetland Islands on Aug. 23, 2013, killing four of the 18 people onboard.
The FAA is to field a NASA-developed tool for flight-sequencing and spacing at nine major U.S. airports in 2018-22 to enable better use of fuel-saving optimized-profile descents.
Allegiant Air announced that this fall it will add four new routes to Fort Lauderdale, Florida, all with less-than-daily service. Allegiant will start Portsmouth, New Hampshire, on Oct. 1, and Akron-Canton, Ohio, on Oct. 2. It will begin Rochester, New York, on Oct. 9, and Grand Rapids, Michigan, on Dec. 16. Allegiant—which will fly to 16 cities from Fort Lauderdale by December—will be only airline flying nonstop on all of the new routes. Rochester is a new market for Allegiant.
“The industry has clearly shown there is no need” for such an aircraft, Spohr told Aviation Daily in an interview at the Star Alliance Chief Executive Board (CEB) meeting. “Passengers are demanding more and more point-to-point directions; they will only connect at hubs when it is necessary or cheaper.”
The airline will be the 28th member of the alliance. It is filling a gap left by the departure of TAM, which switched alliances to Oneworld as a result of its merger with LAN Airlines to form the LATAM Group.
Rolls-Royce is entering the concept design phase for the High Temperature Turbine Technology demonstrator (HT3), which is designed to deliver advanced turbine technology for the company’s recently unveiled Advance and UltraFan engine developments.
The cutback to just 12 aircraft per year comes despite signs of increasing health in the international freight market and a yet-to-be-finalized deal with cargo-operator Volga-Dnepr, announced at last week’s Paris Air Show for up to 20 aircraft.
The airline, announced as a new Star Alliance member at the group’s Chief Executive Board meeting, could have access to 10 Airbus A350-900s on order by its parent Synergy Group, which also controls 52% of Avianca Holdings in Colombia.
The announcement demonstrates JetBlue’s commitment to Boston, from where it operated only 54 daily departures as recently as 2008. By January 2016, JetBlue will reach 118 daily flights, and by summer 2016, it expects to have 140.
Air Canada seeks a Rouge fleet of 25 widebody aircraft, and while it has enough 767s at mainline that it could transfer over, the airline has decided that not all of the aircraft will make the switch.
Delays with the NextGen airspace modernization program should not be used as a reason for privatizing U.S. air traffic control, says Edward Bolton, head of the program, who is concerned the spin-off of ATC from the FAA could disrupt the progress now being made.
Eduardo Munhos de Campos, who was vice president for sales at Embraer until October last year, is heading efforts to establish a single, unified worldwide commercial structure for the Sukhoi Superjet 100 (SSJ100). Plans to bundle the commercial and marketing activities of Superjet Sukhoi Civil Aircraft Company (SCAC) and its Italy-based affiliate, Superjet International (SJI), were made more than a year ago—but progress had been slow—partially due to the restructuring of Finmeccanica and management changes at United Aircraft Corporation (UAC).
ICAO found oversight problems with Thailand’s Department of Civil Aviation (DCA) during a safety audit earlier this year, and as a result some countries—including Japan— have restricted new service by Thai airlines.
