The global in-flight connectivity market is expected to grow in the coming decade with more than 12,900 commercial and 24,000 business aircraft providing the benefit to passengers by 2023, consulting group Euroconsult said. Total revenue from passenger connectivity services is expected rise from $440 million in 2013 to $2.1 billion by 2023. Along with the growth in installation, both the take-up rate and average revenue per user are expected to improve.
Ryanair’s CFO and deputy chief executive Howard Millar will step down in December, marking the second high-profile departure from Europe’s largest low-cost carrier in less than a year as it implements a customer-focused growth strategy. Michael Cawley, who was COO and also deputy chief executive, left the carrier at the end of March after having joined it in 1997. The resignation of two key people is unusual for Ryanair, which has boasted a very stable top m
Australia’s major opposition party says it will support significant aspects of legislation aimed at loosening foreign ownership restrictions on Qantas, although it remains to be seen whether it has gone far enough to forge a compromise with the government. Australian Labor Party leaders say they will agree to remove some of the ownership restrictions in the 1992 Qantas Sale Act. Specifically, they would scrap a clause that limits fore
Boeing says it is “very close” to reaching deals in sales campaigns for the Boeing 747-8 that would fill production slots in 2016. “We want to be back at rate 1.75,” 747 Vice President and General Manager Eric Lindblad said at the Boeing plant in Everett, Washington.
The U.S. Transportation Department (DOT) awarded French startup Dreamjet an exemption to serve the U.S. from any point in the EU, approving an application filed on April 24. This brings into focus the dispute over Norwegian Air International’s (NAI) application, which has been pending before the DOT since the end of last year.
The NTSB is recommending that the FAA reevaluate its emergency evacuation slide certification standards and test methods as the result of two deployable slides inflating inside the cabin of Asiana Airlines Flight 214 during a high-energy on-ground crash sequence, temporarily trapping two flight attendants.
/site-files/aviationweek.com/files/uploads/2014/06/avd_06_20_2014_dataw.pdf A4A Monthly Cargo Yield April 2014 U.S. Cents Per RTM Domestic International System April 2014 81.5 35.5 43.1 April 2013 73.0 37.9 44.1 Based on Airlines For America (A4A) monthly yield report for U.S. Carriers. www.PlaneStats.com
The European Commission has received replies from the four concerned member states in its inquiry on the effective control and ownership of European carriers, as pressure mounts from some airlines to insist on reinforcing strict regulations.
In an apparent about-face, American Airlines on June 17 said it is reducing its U.S. Venezuela schedule from 48 weekly flights to 10, as the carrier continues to negotiate on repatriating the $750 million the country owes it.
