MIAMI—SkyTeam has reached a stable global footprint and is shifting its focus now from scale to being a “service connector” for its members and their passengers, the alliance’s Managing Director Michael Wisbrun asserted.
Boeing's Current Market Outlook reports an anticipated doubling of the commercial-airline fleet over the next 20 years, with Asia receiving the bulk of new-aircraft deliveries.
It will be at least two years before Safran can commit to increasing production of jet engines, even as customers Airbus and Boeing plan to boost production of some aircraft models over the next three years.
If the position is upheld, the takeover could be delayed by several months. Ryanair CEO Michael O’Leary said on June 11 that he expects the process to be completed by year-end.
While studying the possibility, de Juniac cautioned that adding a GDS fee and changing the relationship with the likes of Amadeus, Sabre and Travelport “is financially complex, it is legally complex, it is technical complex and as regards to the balance of power it [is] also complex.”
Cargo is a major boon to Cathay’s business. Cargo Director James Woodrow is leaving Cathay to head China Navigation Company, which is also in the Swire Group.
The airline plans to begin serving Guam with a daily flight from Seoul, beginning around July 15. The carrier filed its application with the U.S. Transportation Department (DOT) in February, asking for broader approval to serve U.S. destinations.
The Delta Master Executive Council (MEC) of the Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA) endorsed the tentative labor deal June 11, sending it to rank-and-file flight-deck crew for a ratification vote.
Speaking at the Wings Club meeting in New York on June 10, Clark called the study by Delta Air Lines, American Airlines and United Airlines an “extremely dodgy, 55-page dossier that contains so many inaccuracies, falsehoods and leaps of logic one could probably drive an express train through it.”
Liebherr-Aerospace production, purchasing and asset investments managing director and COO Josef Gropper, says participation in the UltraFan demonstrator effort “gives us the opportunity to break new ground and significantly enlarge our scope of activities.”
The proposed endangerment finding—made in response to a petition and lawsuit filed by a coalition of environmental groups—is a necessary first step toward rulemaking that will enable the U.S to adopt the international CO2 standard, which is scheduled to be finalized by February 2016.
American plans to introduce a Los Angeles-Sydney flight in December, allowing Qantas to move some of its flights from the route to open a new service between Sydney and San Francisco.
Tyler played down the significance of lower fuel prices in the industry’s expected strong performance in 2015, noting that about half of airlines’ 2015 fuel supply is hedged at prices above the global aircraft fuel-price average, and that a 20% rise in the value of the U.S. dollar over the last 12 months has “moderated” the fuel-cost benefit.
