Photo Gallery: This Week in Aviation News-March 13-17, 2017

Linda Blachly March 14, 2017

IAG 'levels playing field' with new low-cost, long-haul airline

Credit: IAG

International Airlines Group (IAG) launched its long-anticipated low-cost, long-haul carrier March 17, naming it Level.

Transport Canada adopts new UAV rules

Credit: Transport Canada

Canadian Transport Minister Marc Garneau announces new UAV measures at Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport.

Asiana receives first A350 simulator

Credit: Kurt Hofmann

South Korean carrier Asiana Airlines, which is getting ready to take delivery of its first of 22 Airbus A350-900s in April, has received its first A350 flight simulator.

New Cyprus Airways secures AOC

Credit: Cyprus Airways/Facebook

Startup carrier Cyprus Airways has secured its air operator’s certificate (AOC) and plans to launch operations “very soon.”

Berlin airports cancel hundreds of flights as ground workers continue strike

Credit: TOBIAS SCHWARZ/AFP/Getty Images

Berlin’s Tegel and Schönefeld airports canceled hundreds of scheduled flights from March 13-15 because of an ongoing ground staff strike over wages.

Frontier, Silver drop Cuba service

Credit: Rob Finlayson

US carriers Silver Airways and Frontier Airlines said they will end service to Cuba, citing excess capacity and other challenges in the newly reopened US-Cuba market.

French ATC strike causes more than 1,500 flight cancellations

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The latest French air traffic control (ATC) strike caused a record-breaking 1,500 flight cancellations, according to estimates by commercial aviation group Airlines for Europe (A4E).

CDB Aviation orders 30 737 MAX aircraft

Credit: Boeing

CDB Aviation Lease Finance, a wholly owned Irish subsidiary of China Development Bank Financial Leasing, has ordered 30 Boeing 737 MAXs. Pictured: Boeing Commercial Airplanes president and CEO Kevin McAllister, CDB Aviation Lease Finance president & CEO Peter Chang, Global Sales & Marketing VP-commercial airplanes Ihssane Mounir and Northeast Asia Sales VP Rick Anderson.

Emirates begins Athens-Newark service

Credit: Rob Finlayson

Emirates Airline operated the first rotation of its controversial fifth-freedom Dubai-Athens-New York-Newark service March 13, following a weekend of protests by US airlines’ staff.

Linda Blachly

Linda Blachly is Senior Associate Editor for Air Transport World and Aviation Week. She joined the company in July 2010 and is responsible for producing features for Air Transport World’s monthly magazine and engaging content for the aviationweek.com. She is based in the Washington DC office.