Three daily flights from Toronto will start on March 15, 2016, while one flight per day from Halifax, Nova Scotia, will begin April 15, the carrier announced July 20.
Boeing has increased the number of pilots and maintenance technicians it forecasts will be needed by the world’s commercial airlines, reflecting a bulging order book for new aircraft.
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LOS ANGELES—While it continues to add service from Los Angeles, American Airlines is right-sizing aircraft on several key routes, including to Shanghai and São Paulo, both of which will soon be flown by Boeing 787-8 aircraft.
Boeing, boosting the number of aircraft covered by some part of its aftermarket-services offerings, will support Oman Air’s 787 fleet, the manufacturer announced. Oman Air’s deal includes Boeing’s Component Services parts-exchange program, Loadable Software Airplane Parts (LSAP) and condition-monitoring through Airplane Health Management (AHM). The carrier has six GE-powered Boeing 787s, a mix of -8s, and -9s, on order and is expected to take delivery of two of them this year.
Thai AirAsia X is adding a second daily flight between Bangkok and Seoul in October, indicating that South Korea is allowing some new service by Thai carriers. South Korea was one of the countries to impose restrictions on airlines from Thailand, following ICAO concerns about its safety oversight. Thai AirAsia X says it followed the normal application procedures for the additional flight, and did not require special permission. The airline began its first daily service on this route in June 2014, and says its load factor averages 83%.
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JetBlue Airways is speaking with several professional sports leagues about creating partnerships similar to the one the carrier now has with Major League Baseball (MLB), an airline executive said in an interview.
American Airlines is replacing three-class Boeing 777-300ERs with two-class Boeing 777-200s on two of three trips between New York and London, as of December. While premium demand remains strong, American decided it needed fewer seats in the market, Vice President-Network Planning Chuck Schubert said. “Depending on the time of day it’s actually the coach cabin there is less demand for,” he told Aviation Daily. The 6:25 p.m.
BRUSSELS— The European Commission (EC) has ordered Germany to comply with EU rules for issuing pilot licenses and is threatening to take the country to court unless its takes corrective measures within two months.
BRUSSELS— The European Commission (EC) is not giving up on its plan to make Europe’s airspace more efficient per plans laid out in the Single European Sky (SES) legislation,
Republic Airways says a lawsuit filed last week by the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT), the labor union representing the airline’s pilots, is “completely without merit” and suggests some of the allegations are “incomplete and factually incorrect.”
All Nippon Airways (ANA) will reenter the Australian market this December with a flight to Sydney, and is considering what arrangements it will make with local carriers.
BEIJING—Air China is expanding intercontinental services beyond the 2015 plan that it unveiled at the end of last year, increasing its frequency between Beijing and New York while applying for rights to connect Chengdu with Paris, which will help cement Chengdu’s increasingly prominent status as China’s unofficial western gateway.
After a rough June marked by an unusual number of maintenance-related and weather cancellations, United Airlines says it has made several operational changes to improve its on-time reliability, including adding spare aircraft.
