The Malaysia-based carrier has opted to step back from its rapid expansion to allow routes added in recent years mature, CEO Azran Osman-Rani tells Aviation Week.
Speaking at Aviation Week’s MRO Latin America Conference, ICF International Vice President Jonathan Berger points out fuel typically accounts for about 30% of an airline’s budget.
In competing filings with the U.S. Transportation Department (DOT), the three carriers lay out their cases for why they should be awarded—or in Delta’s case, allowed to retain—the slots.
Beverly Wyse, who leads the 737 program and Renton site, will replace Jones as Vice President and General Manager of Boeing South Carolina (BSC). Wyse will be replaced by Scott Campbell who leads the 767 program at Everett and oversaw the first flight of the 767-2C freighter version for the KC-46A tanker program at the end of December.
The comments follow Airbus’s formal launch of its longer-range A321neo on Jan. 13 and reinforce Boeing’s view that the current-replacement market for the 757 may not be as large as Airbus forecasts.
American has assigned 20 of its new E175s to Compass, and more routes from Los Angeles should be announced as the regional airline takes delivery of more aircraft.
The carrier will also connect Chengdu to Colombo, Sri Lanka and has decided to increase its service between Beijing and Los Angeles to three flights daily, from the current two.
The airport’s owners, Heathrow Holdings, have developed a 10-point noise-reduction plan and hopes to cut down airport and aircraft noise by this summer.
Airbus slightly increased its aircraft output in 2014 as orders remained at a very high level. The manufacturer delivered 629 aircraft last year, three more than in 2013. It recorded net orders for 1,456 aircraft compared to 1,503 a year earlier.
Hong Kong-based lessor China Aircraft Leasing Company (CALC) has finalized an order from its previously announced commitment for 74 Airbus A320neos, 16 A320ceos and 10 A321ceos. The deal—first announced as a memorandum of understanding (MOU) in November—will take CALC’s total Airbus backlog to 140 A320-family aircraft. This is CALC’s first order for the A320neo. In 2012, CEO Mike Poon outlined plans to grow CALC’s fleet by 60-100 aircraft by 2015.
American and Allied Pilots Association (APA) leadership reached an agreement during marathon negotiating sessions which began in late December and ran into the new year.
The Athens-based airline will launch daily nonstop flights with Airbus A320s between Larnaca International Airport (LCA) and Tel Aviv Ben Gurion Airport on March 29.
The plan—launched following the excursion of an American Airlines MD-82 at Little Rock, Arkansas in 1999—that spotlighted the risks of non-standard RSAs, has seen some $3 billion in airport-improvement program (AIP) funding.
