Emirates President Tim Clark, said “there is a lot we can learn” from Ryanair CEO Michael O’Leary after meeting the Irish carrier’s CEO for the first time recently at a meeting in Berlin. ”I am more aligned in my thinking with how budget carriers do their thing than with European legacy airlines,” Clark said. Clark added that “he and I think identically” about the industry and the two—who have helped their airlines transform different segments of the airline industry—plan to continue their dialogue.
Allegiant Air is finding fewer used Airbus A320-family aircraft available at reasonable prices than it expected, but predicts more will hit the market in 2016 and 2017, an executive told Wall Street analysts. “A lot of the carriers who have these used Airbuses, they are hanging on to them two or three years or longer,” Allegiant Vice President-Fleet and Corporate Finance Tom Doxey said. “Or if they are leased, they are doing some short-term extensions,” Doxey added.
Asiana Airlines has been ordered by Korean authorities to suspend its flights to San Francisco for a 45-day period as a penalty for the July 6, 2013 crash of a Boeing 777-200ER at that airport. A review panel from South Korea’s Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport (MLIT) says the carrier must complete the suspension period within six months. Asiana has 15 days to decide if it will appeal the ruling—a step the airline has indicated it plans to take.
“Risk adversity has crept into airline boards” since the early 2000s, says Emirates Airline President Tim Clark. And that has led many airlines to worry about their ability to fill A380 seats, causing them to shy away from the superjumbo.
Virgin America has begun replacing navAero electronic flight bags in 53 Airbus A319s and A320s with an Astronautics-built system that will pave the way for Nextgen fuel and time-saving applications.
