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JetBlue Airways will satisfy near-term capacity demand by boosting its Airbus A320 configuration to 165 seats, from 150, and by deferring deliveries

Panama’s Copa intends to launch its own customer-loyalty program in July 2015, the carrier said Thursday. Until then, United Airlines’ MileagePlus

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TOKYO—While Garuda Indonesia is slowing its network-growth plans, it will continue to boost its long-haul and regional fleets with new aircraft

DUBAI—Having just received regulatory clearance from European competition authorities to proceed with the acquisition of a 49% stake in Alitalia

TOKYO—Philippine Airlines’ (PAL) new management team is reviewing all parts of its operation to determine if changes to fleet and network plans are

DUBAI—The Arab Air Carriers Organization (AACO) is accusing European airlines of increasingly using political lobbying to limit Middle Eastern

Continuing financial losses and weakening demand have prompted long-haul low-cost carrier (LCC) AirAsia X to defer or cancel some of its Airbus A330

NEW DELHI—India’s domestic air passenger traffic recorded a growth of 8.61% in first 10 months of this year, as national carrier Air India outpaced

SINGAPORE—The wave of new aircraft deliveries slated for Asia may be jump-starting another growth area further down the supply chain: recycling

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Despite the recent spate of large widebody aircraft orders by Japanese carriers, there still are opportunities for new contracts with these airlines, a senior Boeing executive says.

Advocates on both sides of the debate over Norwegian Air are making their voices heard in Washington, D.C. this week.

American Airlines and its pilots, represented by the Allied Pilots Association (APA), remain locked in talks over a new contract proposed by

JetBlue Airways will institute three fare tiers, including one that won’t include a free checked bag, the carrier told analysts Wednesday. The middle

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TOKYO—Having expanded dramatically at Tokyo’s Haneda Airport this year, All Nippon Airways (ANA) expects to switch its international-growth focus to Narita airport in 2015. New slot awards at Haneda have allowed ANA to build an international-hub operation at the airport, which is closer to downtown Tokyo than Narita, which is the closest to downtown Tokyo. There are no plans for further slot awards at Haneda, however, so further growth there will be limited.

DUBAI—Arab airlines are convinced that carriers must step up and introduce better information-sharing to avoid catastrophes such as the shooting down of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 over Ukraine. “We must introduce a degree of self-help among the airlines,” Emirates President Tim Clark said at the Arab Air Carriers Organization (AACO) annual general assembly in Dubai. “We have to take action to ensure that the industry is protected.”

FAA Administrator Michael Huerta says 80 new NextGen satellite-based, arrival-and-departure procedures for the North Texas area encompassing Dallas

Seeking to improve profitability, Skywest said this week it will retire all 30-seat turboprops flown by SkyWest Airlines by summer 2015, as well as

SEATTLE—With 777X firm configuration on track for 2015, Boeing has begun building a “beta” version of the long-range twin’s first new composite

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EasyJet has been testing a customer loyalty system across the U.K., France and Switzerland, and the airline continued its focus on attracting business

TOKYO—The Asian airline industry is struggling to break even this year, despite higher passenger volumes, with excess capacity being one of the major

Honeywell Aerospace has strengthened its strategic relationship with Air China Technics, signing an agreement to authorize the facility to be a