Air Transport

Zahra Kawa to Vice President-Finance of Pacific Coastal Airlines, Canada.

Ron Karger to Vice President-Maintenance of Pacific Coastal Airlines, Canada.

Darcy Coonfer to Vice President-Flight Operations of Pacific Coastal Airlines, Canada.

Berlin-based logistics company Zeitfracht Group—which markets its two airlines LGW and WDL Aviation under the moniker German Airways—will expand its fleet with four Embraer E190LRs between January and April 2020.

AZIMUTH AIRLINES began twice-weekly Karsnodar-Munich (SSJ100).

ACI reports year-over-year pax growth of 2.3% in October; cargo dropped 2.9%.

ASL AIRLINES FRANCE was placed on the IOSA register by IATA.

EXPRESSJET has contract agreement with its TWU-represented dispatchers.

ICELANDAIR CARGO has 3-year contract from FedEx and TNT to handle all shipments to/from Iceland via Leige and East Midlands, UK starting in 2020.

AIR CANADA took delivery of its first of 45 137-pax A220-300s on order; aircraft is slated to enter service in January 2020.

UNITED further extended 737 MAX cancellations through June 4; it will supplement capacity with used narrowbodies.

AERGO CAPITAL acquired ATR 72-600 (1285; leased to AFRIJET AIRLINES, Gabon); AELIS Group arranged (SPNWS; Nov 1).

Ryanair is planning to appeal an Irish court’s ruling against its bid to delay the move by former COO Peter Bellew to rival LCC easyJet.

The commercial aviation industry in the Latin America-Caribbean region heads into 2020 in a state of flux, producing a dim outlook.

Whether more management heads roll at Boeing remains to be seen now that Dennis Muilenburg has been fired as chief executive.

WASHINGTON – The U.S. FAA has pledged to release a draft rule prescribing a means to identify drones from the ground by the end of December. After

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U.S. Airlines Systemwide Seasonally-Adjusted Load Factor RPMs/ASMs

Spirit Airlines will add fewer new destinations in 2020, as the Florida-based ULCC focuses on using new capacity to “connect the dots” across its existing 75-destination network, company officials told reporters at Spirit’s hangar at Detroit Metro Airport recently.

London Heathrow Airport’s long-awaited third runway is likely to be delayed by at least a year, following a disagreement between the airport and the UK aviation regulator over preliminary spending on the project.

Air Astana president and CEO Peter Foster has been at the helm of the Kazakhstan-based airline since 2005 and is currently overseeing a period of

Airlines worldwide are on track to submit their first full year of emissions data under ICAO’s Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for

Vienna International Airport (VIE) reported a 15% record passenger increase for 2019 but said further growth will impact the airport’s slot situation for the 2020 European summer season.

CABO VERDE AIRLINES took delivery of ex-La Compagnie 757-200 (29307); ex-American 757-200 (25695) is due shortly.

STARLUX AIRLINES, Taiwan leased second new A321-200neo (9314) from GECAS; third (9147) is due shortly for startup.