Scores of flights to and from Hong Kong International Airport (HKIA) were canceled Aug. 5 as air traffic controllers and other aviation workers went on strike as part of the territory’s civil protests.
With the sale of its CRJ business to Mitsubishi announced in June, Bombardier essentially exits a sector it entered 33 years ago when it acquired Canadair from the Canadian government.
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) announced global passenger traffic results for March 2019 showing that demand (measured in revenue passenger kilometers, or RPKs) rose 3.1%, compared to the same month a year ago, which was the slowest pace for any month in nine years.
Training organisation Insight Aviation based at Port Alfred in South Africa has been awarded a contract to select and train pilots for India’s low cost carrier IndiGo.
Air Seychelles has taken delivery of Africa’s first A320neo on lease from CDB Aviation, becoming the first African airline to operate the A320neo aircraft.
Iraqi Airways is expanding its fleet and aims to grow its route network, but is awaiting indications from the country’s newly installed government as to its future direction. Alan Dron reports.
Delta Air Lines, Air France-KLM and Virgin Atlantic received tentative approval from the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) Aug. 2 to operate an expanded transatlantic joint venture (JV) between the U.S., UK and continental Europe.
Mexican LCC Volaris is pressing on with its aggressive growth strategy that relies on converting bus passengers to air travel with low base fares, fueling its expansion with high utilization rates to keep costs down.
The European Commission (EC) has ordered France to recover €8.5 million ($9.4 million) of illegal aid from Ryanair after it found that marketing agreements between the Irish LCC and local tourist authorities at Montpellier-Méditerranée Airport (MPL) were illegal under European Union (EU) state aid rules.
Among several recent orders and deliveries announced by lessors, Singapore-based BOC Aviation will place four Airbus A321neos with locally headquartered LCC Scoot Airlines.
Japan Airlines’ (JAL) financial results have been hurt by a weakening in international demand, which has previously been an area of strength for the Japanese airline industry.
Utah-based regional carrier SkyWest Airlines boosted its net income in the 2019 second-quarter (Q2), aided by its ongoing fleet transition initiatives and the divestiture of ExpressJet Airlines in January 2019.
International Airlines Group (IAG) said its operating profit rose 6.7% in the 2019 second quarter (Q2) as it shrugged off the impact of Brexit uncertainty and predicted passenger unit revenues would remain flat for the year as a whole.
In a bid to meet a growing demand for staff in one of Southeast Asia’s fastest-growing aviation markets, FLC Group’s Bamboo Airways broke ground in July on a new training center in Quy Nhon in central Vietnam.
A team of European hypersonic researchers are preparing for wind tunnel tests of a Mach 8 concept that is designed to prove technologies for the development of future ultra-long-range, high-speed commercial vehicles and air-breathing space launch systems.
Ryanair CEO Michael O’Leary warned that the Irish LCC would have to close bases and cut jobs because of Boeing 737 MAX delays and Brexit uncertainty following a fall in its fiscal first-quarter (Q1) profit.
Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings Inc. saw second-quarter (Q2) net income and revenue come in below analysts’ expectations, as air cargo volumes and yields were harmed by the impact of escalating tariffs and global trade tensions.
