“We will allow the maximum time possible for the [sales] guys to close the campaigns, but we will not build whitetails,” he told analysts during the presentation of Airbus Group’s first-quarter results.
Echoing what Spirit Airlines CEO Ben Baldanza said on his carrier’s earnings call on April 29, Cush told analysts the market appears to be absorbing most of the new capacity, though passengers are paying lower prices.
“The planes are full,” Spirit CEO Ben Baldanza said on the carrier’s first-quarter earnings call. “Now the next question is, how can we, over time, move pricing up.”
“We are making progress in reviewing our existing databases to assure the information is up to date,” FAA Director of Aircraft Certification Services Dorenda Baker told lawmakers in a hearing last week.
A total of six contracts have to be renegotiated, including those defining pilot pay, early retirement, retirement benefits, work conditions and productivity.
Next winter, JetBlue will fly Mint aircraft from New York to Aruba and Bridgetown, Barbados, but that’s a short-term experiment, and the flights will only operate daily during the peak holiday season from Christmas to New Year’s.
All three routes are underserved or not served from Seattle, but they are all key markets for Delta Air Lines, which offers robust service to all from its Atlanta hub.
Much of the growth between China and the U.S. will come from leisure traffic, as inbound tourism to the U.S. becomes more accessible to the Chinese middle class, Air China Vice President-North America Zhihang Chi said.
Gogo’s 2KU system, which Delta Air Lines will begin installing on more than 250 narrowbody aircraft starting next year, “is going to be the magic that makes ‘take rate’ accelerate,” Gogo’s CEO said in an interview.
The new service will be operated beginning May 1 with Turkish Cargo’s Airbus A330F aircraft, which can carry a payload of up to 70 metric tons. Turkish Airlines in early March began making refueling stops at the Shannon Airport for its Istanbul Ataturk-ORD freighter service.
Speaking as a panelist on at the CAPA Americas Aviation Summit, Etihad Chief Strategy & Planning Officer Kevin Knight said the north-transatlantic market had been at the forefront of many innovations in the airline industry.
The airline will use its third 787-9 to partially take over its daily Tokyo Haneda-Munich route beginning May 5. The -9s will fly the route on alternate days, dividing the service with Boeing 777-300ERs.
The airline earlier this month converted options for two Bombardier Q400 NextGen aircraft to complement its current fleet of three Airbus A319s, one Embraer 170 and two Q400s.
Healthy first-quarter commercial aftermarket figures from several engine manufacturers point to pent-up demand and predicable maintenance schedules, rather than a surge in aftermarket work tied to lower fuel prices or changes in fleet utilization.
Pratt & Whitney’s Christchurch Engine Center will be the first facility in its geared turbofan MRO network, outside of the OEM and its partners MTU and Japan Aero Engine Corp. The Christchurch MRO—a joint venture (JV) between Air New Zealand and Pratt & Whitney—will overhaul the PW1100G-JM, which powers the Airbus A320neo. Air New Zealand ordered three A321neos and 10 A320neos in 2014. Pratt controls 51% of the JV.
The FAA says airlines may be able to begin using ground-based augmentation systems (GBAS) for satellite-based Category 3 instrument landings that culminate in a 50-ft. decision height or an automatic landing by 2018, offering a lower-cost alternative to legacy ground-based instrument landing systems (ILS).
The airline in January announced a new voluntary departure plan as part of Air France-KLM Group’s comprehensive Perform 2020 restructuring effort, which eyes a cost reduction of €650 million ($706.7 million) between 2015 and 2017 at Air France.
According to an analysis published April 27 by a group of investigative reporters, the federal government received two separate warnings from its own diplomats and intelligence-service Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND) after a Ukrainian military transport aircraft was shot down while flying at high altitude over Eastern Ukraine on July 14.
