Delta Air Lines pilots are asking the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) to place conditions on the carrier’s proposed transborder joint venture (JV) with Calgary-based WestJet, expressing concerns about how Delta has divided flying opportunities under its immunized alliance with Virgin Atlantic.
Cathay Pacific Airways has agreed to temporarily take over its partner Air New Zealand’s (ANZ) Hong Kong flights, which will help ANZ cover for a shortage of international capacity.
Budapest-based LCC Wizz Air unveiled plans Dec. 12 to create a new Abu Dhabi-based airline in partnership with Abu Dhabi development holding company PJSC.
Cathay Pacific Airways has agreed to temporarily take over its partner Air New Zealand’s (ANZ) Hong Kong flights, which will help ANZ cover for a shortage of international capacity.
Southwest Airlines will share $125 million with employees as part of a deal struck with Boeing that covers part of what the airline is losing because of the 737 MAX groundings, the carrier said Dec. 12.
Southwest Airlines will share $125 million with employees as part of a deal struck with Boeing that covers part of what the airline is losing because of the 737 MAX groundings, the carrier said Dec. 12.
New forecasts from IATA show air cargo volumes staging a modest recovery next year after slumping in 2019, boosted by predictions of a truce in the ongoing trade war between the US and China.
Pegasus Airlines has received its second A321neo aircraft as part of its 100 Airbus aircraft order in 2012, which was the single largest-ever aircraft order in the history of Turkish civil aviation at the time.
Wizz Air has announced that it has reached agreement in principle for the establishment of Wizz Air Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates in partnership with Abu Dhabi Development Holding Company.
The new private Tunisian airline Jasmin Airways has obtained its Air Operator’s Certificate (AOC) from the national civil aviation authority. Acting Transport minister, René Trabelsi, told Anuradha Deenapanray Chappard that Tunisia will sign the Open Sky with the EU after Brexit.
Cathay Pacific has been forced to scale back operations and defer deliveries, while Hong Kong Airlines has had to seek more funds to ensure its survival.
The FAA’s top official remains confident in the agency’s certification methodology and processes for evaluating safety-critical issues, pushing back on lawmakers’ assertions that the system is “broken” and in need of a major overhaul.
The sharply increased emphasis by airlines on sustainability is not being matched by passengers taking up the opportunity to offset the carbon emissions of their journeys.
Lufthansa Group on Dec. 11 appointed Dieter Vranckx as CEO and chief commercial officer of its subsidiary carrier Brussels Airlines, succeeding Christina Foerster from Jan. 1, 2020.
Mexico has started to share its plans for a proposed tri-airport system and is working across industry stakeholders to develop those plans, but significant questions remain about how those plans will work.
The advent of two-pilot crews in long-haul operations—without a third pilot for rotation during the flight—may be as close as five to six years from now, according to Groupe Dubreuil’s chief airline executive.
