With Capital handling only 2.9% more passengers last year than in 2013, Beijing is on the verge of losing its place as the Chinese city with the most passenger movements.
The upstart budget carrier launched charter services between Guangzhou and Zhanjiang on Dec. 2, but has stopped them while it waits for approval of its request to start scheduled services.
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The union wrote in a memo to its members that “every single one should be aware of the dimension of this radical, structural change” for which Lufthansa’s management has been aiming.
Flights to London and other European cities will be an option when the carrier’s Airbus A330neo orders begin arriving, AirAsia X CEOAzran Osman-Rani tells Aviation Week.
The GAO analysis attempts to quantify what raising the PFC—which has been capped since 2000—would do to overall funding, factoring in any reduction in tax revenue caused by a reduction in air travel due to perceived higher fares.
Daniel Shurz, senior vice president of commercial, said in an interview that considerable guesswork went into Trenton because before Frontier began service in November 2012.
“We are proud to be the first Embraer operator in Indonesia and we look forward to enhancing our operations, especially in the Kalimantan area, with the introduction of these E195s,” Kalstar Aviation CEO Andi Masyhur says.
In its application to the U.S. Transportation Department (DOT) for the route, the Chinese carrier proposes to begin flying between Shanghai and Boston three times a week beginning in the second quarter of 2015.
“If we had known that the 787 was delayed so much we would not have ordered any,” Al Baker said after disembarking from the first scheduled A350 flight from Doha, Qatar to Frankfurt, Germany.
The cabin modifications would be ready toward the end of the decade, according to Executive Vice-President Programs Didier Evrard, who is also still running the A350 program.
“Some of those freight customers are asking us for those systems today,” says John Tracy, chief technology officer and senior vice president of Engineering, Operations & Technology at Boeing.
