JetBlue Airways flight attendants voted to reject their first ever contract with the airline, setting the stage for another round of negotiations expected sometime next year.
U.S. carrier Delta Air Lines and Canada’s WestJet have pulled the plug on a planned joint venture (JV) that would have seen the airlines deepen their existing codeshare partnership and coordinate schedules on transborder routes.
Cameroon’s president has ordered that national airline, Camair-Co, should be prepared for privatisation. Alan Dron looks at how attractive the debt-laden carrier might be to external investors.
Chinese airlines generally expect the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) to withdraw its grounding order on the Boeing 737 MAX no later than March 2021, industry sources said.
Scoot CEO Campbell Wilson tells ATW correspondent Chen Chuanren about his return to the LCC and how the Singapore-based airline can see the light at the end of the tunnel after a tough year.
The opening of a highly anticipated air travel bubble between Singapore (SIN) and Hong Kong (HKG) was deferred by two weeks, a day before the first ATB flight was set to depart on Nov. 22.
ERA (European Regions Airline Association) director general Montserrat Barriga tells ATW European bureau chief Victoria Moores about how her members have been coping with the COVID-19 crisis and what changes to watch out for in the regional airline sector.
Chris Zweigenthal, CEO of the Airlines Association of South Africa (AASA), talks to ATW's Victoria Moores about how COVID-19 has compounded the challenges faced by airlines in the region and what can be done to help carriers survive.
The FAA on Nov. 20 released for comment proposed airworthiness standards for six small unmanned aircraft systems as a step toward issuing its first-ever regulatory certifications of drone designs.
A team of credit analysts from Moody’s is downbeat about the airline industry’s prospects in 2021, predicting in a new report that carriers around the world will continue to face operating losses well into 2022.
The recent warnings by two major U.S. airlines that booking momentum for the upcoming holiday season is slowing gives credence to the industry’s conclusions that the recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic will be choppy, and highly unpredictable.
EASA moved one step closer to issuing its own parameters for the Boeing 737 MAX’s return by formally announcing it would not adopt the FAA’s final airworthiness directive (AD) containing its requirements.
The most effective way for airlines to cut emissions in the short term is to invest in more efficient new aircraft, though extra taxation of the sector threatens that, Air France-KLM Group CEO Ben Smith said.
The air transport industry will need $70-80 billion in additional state aid to avoid further failures as it attempts to recover from the COVID-19 crisis, IATA director general and CEO Alexandre de Juniac said.
