VC announced that it will stage a strike affecting all Lufthansa short- and medium-haul flights on March 18. The union said that Lufthansa needs to understand it is insisting on the contents of the current collective bargaining agreement and is not prepared to agree to cost cuts or efficiency measures.
That’s lower than the load factor goal of 75-80% that airline deputy CEO Peter Luethi outlined to Aviation Daily in a June interview (Aviation Daily, June 22, 2014).
The island’s first airport is expected to open in 2016 and will improve access to the territory, which now can only be reached by an irregular ship service from Cape Town, South Africa.
With a territory spanning thousands of islands, Indonesia makes an ideal market for small freighters, Airod Aerospace Chief Marketing Officer Syahril Shariff says. In Indonesia, air freight is often the only alternative to carrying goods domestically by sea.
FAA sees U.S. carrier passenger growth averaging 2% annually through 2035, a slight decline from last year’s outlook. While fuel’s “sharp” price decline “is a catalyst for a short-lived uptick,” the forecast projects $100-per-barrel oil by 2021, “keeping a lid on U.S. economic growth during the same period,” FAA says in its latest 20-year forecast. Capacity will grow 2.4% this year, compared with 2.2% last year, and will rise an average of 2.5% annually through 2035, FAA says.
“This is something [where] we would have said ‘No, we will never do that’ in the past, but this is something that we are exploring now. Stansted is quite open to exploring their U.S. possibilities as well,” Ryanair Chief Marketing Officer Kenny Jacobs affirmed earlier this month at the launch event of the airline’s new customer charter (Aviation Daily, March 6).
Traditional incentives—which include waiving landing fees and offering marketing support—are not enough. Nor is it enough for a city to base its assumptions on an economic-impact study showing how much revenue and economic activity a new route will generate for the airline and the community.
The opinion, published March 16, is the next step in EASA’s effort to “update and improve” its Basic Regulation, or overarching framework that defines the agency’s roles and responsibilities.
The pilots recovered to normal flight before returning for a non-eventful landing. Interfering with the glideslope transmitter was a Boeing 737 that had landed on a different runway and was waiting to cross Runway 23 to reach the terminal.
“The improving profitability of commercial carriers aided by the rapid drop in fuel prices, together with the abundant availability and low cost of capital, bode well for the growth of engine leasing,” CEO Charles Willis says.
Boeing builds its first two in-service variants of the 787, the 787-8 an 787-9, at both its facilities in Everett, Washington and in South Carolina, and will continue to do so.
Air France-KLM CEO Alexandre de Juniac will not allow jobs to be transferred from KLM’s head office near Amsterdam Schiphol Airport to the group’s Paris headquarters, the Netherlands’ State Secretary for Infrastructure and the Environment Wilma Mansveld said following a meeting in Paris on March 12. French Secretary of State for Transport Alain Vidalies could not attend the meeting.
“The drop in oil prices”—about 50% since mid-2014—“is credit positive for most airports in North America and Europe because lower fuel costs will improve the financial performance of airlines, making them stronger counter-parties to the airports,” Moody’s says.
The public statement is a clear message to the Swiss authorities, which have not yet cleared Etihad’s proposed acquisition of a 33.3% stake in Darwin Airline.
ExpressJet lost $117.9 million in 2014, while Skywest made $77.6 million. ExpressJet’s operating revenues fell by $119.5 million on a year-over-year basis, a decrease the company blamed in part on a fleet-size reduction and poor weather in the first half of 2014.
Europe’s aviation regulator has proposed a framework for unmanned aircraft with three categories of operation based on risk, the lowest of which would not involve any oversight by aviation regulators.
“Right now, they are not performing on their obligations to us and to other lessors,” Zissis said on a March 11 earnings call. “But we have taken action to get the aircraft back and expect to have the aircraft back in the next quarter.”
