The bank is an important priority for the White House, which says Ex-Im has supported $235 billion in exports over the last six years, through direct loans, loan guarantees, working-capital guarantees and export credit insurance.
All Nippon Airways (ANA) is set to introduce a self-service bag-drop system at Haneda Airport that it says will be the world’s largest when fully installed. The carrier will start the service at its domestic terminal on July 1 with five self-service machines. By year-end it will have a total of 39 machines. This will also be the first self-service baggage system in Japan. The cost of the system is not being revealed. ANA says it will decrease the number of staff-served baggage counters, but some will be retained.
Lufthansa agreed to offer an early-retirement plan to newly hired flight attendants that allows them to stop flying at age 55. The proposal will require personal financial contributions by the employees only if a pre-defined level of return—based on interest rates—is not reached. The plan will be reviewed after 10 years.
Ryanair’s request to Airport Coordination Netherlands for slots at Amsterdam Airport was granted, giving the Irish LCC slots for up to nine daily flights at the airport this winter. Ryanair already operates from three regional Dutch airports—Eindhoven, Maastricht and Groningen—but the airline is adding more primary airports to its network as part of its “Always Getting Better” strategy to attract more business passengers and improve the overall customer experience.
But first the sides must solve a slew of challenges. They include reaching an agreement that combines two different approaches on work-rules and benefits, one from United and the other from Continental Airlines, and ensuring that flight attendants receive competitive pay.
Boingo now provides Internet connectivity at 30 of the top 49 airports in the U.S., according to a report provided to the Los Angeles Board of Airport Commissioners, which runs Los Angeles International Airport (LAX). Airports like LAX—which just renewed with Boingo for seven years—like the service because it does not require them to run their own networks and it provides some revenue.
The equity stake in Fulcrum is the largest single investment by a U.S. airline in alternative fuels, says Brett Hart, United executive vice president and general counsel. Hong Kong-based Cathay Pacific Airways made an undisclosed equity investment in Fulcrum in August 2014.
Boeing is to collaborate with Embraer to fly a testbed for environmental technologies in Brazil in 2016, as a follow-on to the U.S. manufacturer’s series of ecoDemonstrators.
Emirates has rejected the U.S. legacy carriers' claims as “nothing more than a mess of legal distortions and factual errors” and accused them of seeking “protection from competition.”
Airbus is preparing its E-Fan electric aircraft demonstrator for a groundbreaking flight across the English Channel in the next few months. The E-Fan demonstrator is proving technologies that Airbus hopes will help in the development of a family of electrically-powered light aircraft for training and private use and in the future potentially lead to an electric-powered airliner carrying 80-90 passengers in the 2030-40 time frame.
Lufthansa is considering integrating more airlines under the Eurowings brand and may further reduce its legacy operation’s fleet if sufficient cost-cutting agreements with unions can’t be reached.
The Dutch government does not need to take a shareholding in Air France-KLM to secure the interests of KLM and Amsterdan Airport Schiphol, according Dutch Finance Minister Jeroen Dijsselbloem.
Delta Air Lines will expand transcontinental capacity on flights from New York John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK) to Los Angeles (LAX) and San Francisco (SFO).
Consolidation of the Chinese central government’s freight airlines, foreshadowed by authorities this month, reflects the administration’s wider push to reform state enterprises, partly by merging some of them.
Australia’s airport customs and immigration officials are planning a strike on July 1, a move expected to cause significant disruption to international passenger arrivals at major airports.
The crew of a British Airways Boeing 747-400 appeared to lose situational awareness when their taxi-out instructions did not match what they anticipated, leading them to miss a key turn and clip a building while rolling down an unassigned taxiway, South African air accident investigators concluded.
The fast-growing Isle of Man aircraft registry is increasing staffing to face the implementation of new European safety regulations and to handle increasing applications from business jet users.
To list an event, send information in calendar format to Donna Thomas at [email protected] . (Bold type indicates new calendar listing.) Jun. 30-Jul. 2—2015 Flight Attendants/Flight Technicians conference, Lowes Ventana Canyon Resort, Tucson, Arizona, www.nbaa.org/events/fa-ft/2015/
Atlas Air’s demand-driven expansion of its freighter fleet underscores the volatility gripping the world cargo market, as positive and negative data points combine to present a picture that changes depending on one’s perspective.
United Airlines will spend $100 million to acquire a 5% stake in Azul Brazilian Airlines, and the two carriers have entered into a strategic partnership that will include codesharing and reciprocal loyalty-program benefits.
All Nippon Airways (ANA) is looking to reenter the Australian market with a Tokyo Haneda-Sydney flight. The airline wants to start the service in the upcoming northern winter season, and if it cannot do it by then, in the summer 2016 schedule. It would probably use a Boeing 767 or 787 for such a flight. ANA last flew this route in 1999. Qantas and Japan Airlines operate flights from Tokyo Narita to Sydney, but Qantas will switch the route to Haneda in August.
Atlas Air’s demand-driven expansion of its freighter fleet underscores the volatility gripping the world cargo market, as positive and negative data points combine to present a picture that changes depending on one’s perspective.
