Aviation Daily

By Jens Flottau
Qatar Airways is postponing the delivery of its first Airbus A350-900, originally scheduled for this weekend, saying only that it and Airbus remain

Airlines for America (A4A) forecasted that the number of passengers traveling on U.S. airlines on the average day during the upcoming holiday season

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Norwegian Air International’s (NAI) application for a foreign air carrier permit is within the purview of the U.S. Transportation Department (DOT) to

By Bradley Perrett
Air China has preliminary plans to open six intercontinental routes next year while increasing services on four more. The draft 2015 schedule includes

By Victoria Moores
LONDON—Virgin Atlantic is expecting to turn a profit this year, after completing its two-year recovery plan, and is now working to deliver on its

By Jens Flottau
The Vereinigung Cockpit (VC) pilot union has proposed entering into a broad mediation with Lufthansa that includes all contentious issues between the

Europe’s airlines are fuming about Germany’s decision to increase charges for air traffic control (ATC) services by a staggering 16.6% from January

By Adrian Schofield
All Nippon Airways’ (ANA) plans to continue its international network growth will be supported by the arrival of several more Boeing 787s next year

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By Jens Flottau
Airbus is under increasing pressure to make a decision soon about the future of its largest jet.
Air Transport

By Jens Flottau
Etihad Airways could turn to South African Airways when the Abu Dhabi-based company expands the system of affiliated airlines in which it holds

By Jens Flottau
Lufthansa, leveraging part of its mainline pilot collective bargaining agreement and seeking to keep costs down, will use pilots employed by its

Air Canada, which continues to aggressively expand its international network, will add Dubai flights in 2015. The Montreal-based carrier—on the heels

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By Guy Norris
Boeing will reduce the production rate of its 747-8 by two aircraft per year beginning September 2015.
Air Transport

Blaming in part the airline “industry’s willingness to trade lower fuel prices for lower fares,” Spirit Airlines estimates its fourth-quarter adjusted

Ryanair is expanding its operations in Portugal and will open an operational base in the Azores in April 2015, marking its fourth base in the country

By Adrian Schofield
Qantas, unveiling its latest steps to improve its Asian network, is adding new flights at Tokyo Narita Airport and moving existing service to the city

By Tony Osborne
Use of export credits to finance new commercial aircraft look set to fall to historically low levels as lessors and airlines continue to turn to the

By Adrian Schofield
Singapore-based low-cost carrier (LCC) Scoot, revealing one of the new routes it will introduce with its Boeing 787 deliveries, will add Melbourne as

By Victoria Moores
The European Commission (EC) has appointed a newly created cross-industry group, the SESAR Deployment Alliance, to drive forward Europe’s long-awaited

By Lee Ann Shay
Delta TechOps opened a line-maintenance hangar at Tokyo Narita—its ninth in the world, but first outside the U.S.—to give it more flexibility for

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