The deal, which cemented an agreement announced at this year’s Paris Air Show, calls for deliveries to run from October 2017-September 2019, the airline says.
According to schedule data cited by the Airline Route website, Thai Airways will be ending its four weekly flights to Los Angeles via Seoul on Oct. 25.
Since Emirates added its second daily Seattle flight on July 1, Alaska has seen connecting-passenger flows of about 275 daily, with a peak day of 410 passengers.
The airline plans to retire two more Airbus A320s by the end of its financial year on March 31, although it will also put a parked A319 into operational service.
Europe’s second-largest LCC in passenger numbers had warned that unit revenue at constant currency would be 4% lower on the year-ago period, due to a more competitive operating environment and air traffic control strikes in France.
Yangtze River Express has not announced a date for beginning passenger flights, but this year is likely, since HNA Group airlines are adept at setting up new carriers, and in this case need only widen the business of one that is already flying.
Latvia’s flag carrier, airBaltic, is allowed to start scheduled and charter passenger, cargo and mail flights between the U.S. and the EU after being granted a foreign air carrier permit and route exemption authority by the U.S. Transportation Department. The airline does not intend to start operating transatlantic flights with its own metal, but plans to add its BT code to Uzbekistan Airways’ twice weekly Tashkent International-Riga-New York Kennedy service.
International market travel, driven by a long-awaited rebound in intra-Europe traffic, received a welcomed boost in May, but the premium share of loads continued to lag, IATA data show. “The key driver of the faster growth in international air travel is acceleration [in] the Europe market,” IATA noted. “In May, the market was up 5.1%, almost double the rate of growth seen year-to-date, supported by gains in business confidence. which confirm that the economic recovery is on track.”
The airline officially joined the Star Alliance on July 22, the latest step of its evolution from an air-taxi operator and regional airline to a major carrier.
An Aviation Daily analysis of FAA’s recently released preliminary 2014 enplanement figures shows relative health shared nearly equally among the nation’s large hubs.
The so-called “1,500-hr. rule” stems from aviation-safety legislation passed by Congress in 2010, in response to the 2009 Colgan Air flight 3407 crash.
The airline intends to purchase three ATR 72s, with service to begin in the first half of 2016. The first two aircraft will come from Canada’s First Air, and are already converted to freight configuration.
Pinto told Aviation Daily at a Star Alliance event in Sao Paulo that MRO and several other functions are being analyzed for future cooperation, but he did divulge further details.
The Indonesian government has informed its Thai counterpart that carriers from Thailand will not be able to add new Indonesia services. This is similar to actions taken by Japan and some other Asian nations, and the FAA is also considering such a move.
Airlinair, Brit Air and Regional were brought under the HOP! brand in 2013, with all three carriers continuing to operate under three distinct air operator certificates (AOC).
