Virgin Australia and Qantas are involved in a regulatory wrangle over Virgin’s application to serve international markets with its Tigerair LCC subsidiary.
The FAA has declared Philadelphia and New York “No-Drone Zones” during Pope Francis’s visits to those cities this week. All UAS, including radio-controlled models, are banned from Sept. 22-27, the agency says. UAS are always banned in Washington, which is also on the papal itinerary.
Virgin America is once again testing the market for premium-cabin upgrades, this time by entering into a partnership with a mobile phone application called SeatBoost.
United Airlines said on Sept. 22 that it plans to be the first airline to fly between the U.S. and Xi’an, China, and is proposing a three-times-weekly service from San Francisco beginning in May, pending regulatory approval.
Spanish LCC Vueling, an International Airlines Group (IAG) subsidiary, will open a base at Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport (CDG) in May 2016 with two 180-seat Airbus A320 aircraft.
A series of strikes by customs and border control workers are causing disruption for travelers at Australian airports this week, as the standoff over a new contract escalates.
Singapore’s competition watchdog has approved a partnership between LCCs Tigerair and Cebu Pacific in the Philippines-Singapore market, with the caveat that the two airlines agree to exclude certain routes they dominate.
50 Years Ago Sept. 21, 1965 —The International Association of Machinists (IAM) said NASA and the U.S. Air Force helped Boeing six days into an IAM strike by making it more difficult for strikers to convene and restricting their ability to picket. 35 Years Ago
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Southwest Airlines will hedge 65% of its fuel in the third quarter and as of now has about 40% of its fuel needs for 2016 hedged, a higher percentage than most of its peers in today’s low-fuel-price climate.
Aeromexico has significantly boosted connecting traffic over the last year-and-a-half at its two main hub cities of Mexico City and Monterrey as it focuses on upgauging its fleet and growing international capacity.
Spirit AeroSystems’ largest union says it has been notified that negotiations between the company and Onex and Advanced Integration Technology for the purchase of its fabrication and machining division were ending.
United Airlines will earn an extra $200 million in revenue for the second half of 2015 under the terms of its amended credit card deal with Chase Bank USA and Visa, the carrier said.
The United Arab Emirates’ (UAE) Air Accident Investigation Sector (AAIS) is calling upon the country’s civil aviation authority to bolster the certification and tracking of pilot health related to incapacitation.
Malaysia-based LCC AirAsia is proposing a share-buyback initiative that will help dampen the dramatic swings in market value it has experienced this year.
For the second time this week, leaders from the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT) and executives from Republic Airways will meet with officials from the National Mediation Board (NMB) to discuss how the sides might reach an agreement on a new pilot contract.
