Although EasyJet secured traffic rights between London and Moscow in 2012, the U.K. LCC is suspending operations to Russia, as demand continues to fall and the visa-approval process becomes more difficult.
As part of a larger strategy to retire its aging fleet of Boeing 737-400s, Alaska Airlines will turn some of its passenger aircraft into full freighters.
United Airlines sees major upside in its ability to increase ancillary revenue by using more-sophisticated pricing strategies and adding new products, Chief Revenue Officer Jim Compton said at a recent conference.
Norwegian air accident investigators have taken the unusual step of reclassifying an air safety incident as serious, almost five years after its occurrence.
The FAA is mending flaws in a new NextGen air traffic controller automated-decision support tool that is plagued by many of the same performance, reliability, training and procedural problems as its predecessor.
Hawaiian Airlines will begin redeploying its Airbus A330s on U.S. West Coast-Hawaii flights when the 16 Airbus A321neos it has on order begin arriving in 2017.
Calling Spirit Airlines the “most-efficient producer of seats in the industry,” CEO Ben Baldanza said Sept. 9 that his airline probably will add 125 new markets in the next five years.
Alaska Airlines expects an uptick in competitors’ capacity at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport early next year, airline CFO Brandon Pedersen said recently at the Cowen & Co. Global Transportation Conference conference in Boston.
Hainan Airlines has received preliminary approval to establish Guilin Airlines, its latest offshoot, from the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC).
With its foothold firmly in the U.S. as well as China, Airbus is on its way to achieving its expansion goals. President/CEO Fabrice Bregier discusses the ramifications of these moves.
Average altitude performance would greatly limit the Chinese market for the proposed Sino-Russian AHL helicopter. So Avicopter proposes a design that would fly far higher than most heavy rotorcraft.
By Jens Flottau, Guy Norris, Joe Anselmo, Bradley Perrett
Perception matters. And the fact that Airbus is now building civil aircraft in the U.S.” puts it alongside Boeing or Lockheed Martin as a prime,” aerospace analysts say.
Minimum fleet size, including minimum aircraft ownership, is one of the regulations already on the books the Ministry of Transport will begin enforcing more strongly.
The Japanese government may lift some of the restrictions on flights between the U.S. and Tokyo Haneda Airport, and could offer seventh-freedom cargo rights to U.S. carriers.
Early evidence gleaned by investigators probing the Sept 8. engine fire on board British Airways Flight 2276 points to an uncontained failure in the high-pressure compressor, an NTSB update suggests.
