The new airline will adopt Air Arabia’s business model and establish a hub at Amman Queen Alia International Airport, the LCC’s fifth hub in the Middle East and North Africa.
At least two more managers may be under scrutiny of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, which is the Communist Party office charged with investigating alleged instances of bribery and embezzlement throughout the state sector, local media report.
Under coordination by ProSky to facilitate implementation and training of new air traffic controllers, the four countries’ air navigation service providers will work to implement procedures that include Required Navigation Performance (RNP) approaches and arrivals and RNP-to-ILS (instrument landing system) transitions.
China finally has an indigenously designed airliner, following the issue of a type certificate for the Comac ARJ21-700 regional jet by the country’s civil aviation authority.
The route commemorated AirTran’s first flight in 1993 and was operated with a Boeing 717, an aircraft type which Southwest had inherited from AirTran and is removing from the integrated fleet.
Alitalia and Etihad Airways on Dec. 23 confirmed they have completed all the formalities related to the transfer of air transport operations from Alitalia CAI to the new Alitalia SAI, or Società Aerea Italiana.
Delta Air Lines argues that it is operating its Seattle-Tokyo Haneda route in full compliance with U.S. Transportation Department (DOT) rules, and DOT has “no lawful basis” to reconsider the route allocation and cannot “lawfully strip” Delta of the authority. DOT said it would reconsider the authority after American Airlines and Hawaiian Airlines claimed Delta is operating the route just enough to prevent triggering the 90-day dormancy rule. Delta has said it has cut flights due to seasonality and will ramp its schedule up for the summer season.
In observance of the year-end holiday season, the Dec. 24 issue of Aviation Daily is the last issue this year. The next issue will be dated Jan. 6, 2015. In the interim, subscribers can visit the Aviation Week Intelligence Network (awin.aviationweek.com).
Earlier this month, Norwegian filed a formal complaint to the European Commission (EC) and European Free Trade Area Surveillance Authority (ESA), claiming SAS receives “differential treatment” when it comes to traffic rights.
The new department—which should be up and running early next year—is an initiative of the Dutch airline’s new CEO Pieter Elbers, who was appointed in October to speed up KLM’s lagging restructuring efforts.
September’s total traffic growth was 2.3% year-over-year. In October, premium traffic was up 2.9% year-over-year (0.6 points above September) and economy traffic grew 3.7% (up 1.4 points from September).
Air New Zealand can make its Auckland base a major connecting hub for traffic from Australia and Southeast Asia to South America, the airline’s CEO Christopher Luxon says. These connecting opportunities will be opened up when Air New Zealand launches its first service to South America in December 2015—a flight from Auckland to Buenos Aires. Due to New Zealand’s geographical position, linking certain other Pacific Rim markets to South America is one of the few transit flows that is viable for Air New Zealand.
BEIJING—Airbus is aiming at getting contracts for 150-200 A330s in the current Chinese ordering campaign intended to fill airline requirements for the 2016-20 economic planning period, says an industry official in China. The contracts will be tied to an agreement to open a proposed completion center for the A330 in Tianjin.
American Airlines and Mexico City-based Interjet have signed a codeshare agreement. Under the proposed deal, American will codeshare on Interjet flights from Mexico City to five destinations: Huatulco, Villahermosa, Merida, Tuxtla Gutierrez, and Oaxaca. The carriers will submit an application to the U.S. Transportation Department for regulatory approval of the proposed cooperation.
