Irish LCC Ryanair CEO Michael O´Leary said he expects that an “awful” lot of airlines will follow the carrier’s recently announced tightened hand-luggage policy.
Italy’s Leonardo has signed a memorandum of understanding to integrate the Aireon space-based surveillance system into its “LeadInSky” air traffic management (ATM) automation system.
Passengers traveling via the world’s commercial airlines exceeded 4 billion for the first time in 2017, up 7.3% over 2016 and equivalent to 280 million additional air trips, according to IATA’s annual World Air Transport Statistics report, released Sept. 6.
Aigle Azur’s president, Frantz Yvelin, believes that new strategic partnerships and a greater concentration on long-haul routes are key to developing the French airline’s strong potential, hopefully returning it to profitability by 2020.
Where the Pentagon is focusing cutting-edge RandD and what Boeing is telling investors about its airplane production crunch are the focus of this week’s discussion.
Fifteen MENA region airlines have signed a 10-year framework agreement with global merchandising company, Amadeus, for innovative distribution services. Vincent Chappard and Anuradha Deenapanray report.
The U.S. House of Representatives has passed bipartisan legislation aimed at ensuring only travelers who have undergone required background and security checks are able to use the Transportation Security Administration’s (TSA) PreCheck airport screening lanes.
Emirates is dealing with a “triple whammy” in the form of weakness of many emerging economies, a strong dollar and higher fuel prices as it evaluates capacity growth for 2019, said the airline’s president, Tim Clark.
UK LCC easyJet has signed a connecting-flight agreement with Singapore Airlines (SIA) and its LCC subsidiary Scoot, and both plan to join the “Worldwide by easyJet” booking platform by year-end.
Dubai Airports CEO Paul Griffiths believes aviation growth will be constrained unless airports decentralize and take the pain out of passenger processes.
The UK government office responsible for internet security is investigating a major data breach at British Airways (BA) that resulted in the theft of details of 380,000 passenger financial transactions.
Ryanair said it would not reduce its Dublin-based fleet this winter, after the Irish Air Line Pilots’ Association (IALPA) voted to accept a collective operations agreement, ending weeks of tense negotiations and a series of strikes.
Singapore Airlines (SIA) will introduce a high-density Airbus A350-900 for its medium-haul operations beginning Dec. 17, with Adelaide, Australia, as the launch destination.
Senior executives from easyJet, Finnair, IBM, Lufthansa, SAS and Virgin Atlantic believe digitalization is not about automating old processes, it is about solving problems, becoming more flexible and securing cultural buy-in within a company.
Norwegian Air Shuttle CEO Bjørn Kjos predicted the adoption of blockchain technology will have a “revolutionary impact” on the global airline industry, transforming everything from how passengers purchase tickets to how airlines store data.
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) announced global passenger traffic results for May showing that demand (measured in revenue passenger kilometers, or RPKs) rose 6.1% compared to the same month in 2017, which was a slight pickup from 6.0% year-over-year growth for April 2018. Capacity climbed 5.9% and load factor rose 0.1 percentage point to 80.1%.
African air navigation service providers (ANSPs) and aviation industry stakeholders have agreed to create and support an air traffic flow management (ATFM) and collaborative decision-making (CDM) initiative.
Crossover narrowbodies—whose capacity falls between regionals and single-aisles—are almost all clean-sheet designs and have maintainability “designed in.”
JetBlue Airways returned—following a 10-year hiatus—to Southern California’s Ontario International Airport (ONT), as the New York-based LCC launched nonstop service from New York JFK Sept. 5.
Rapidly expanding Icelandic LCC WOW Air is preparing to go public within 18-24 months, the airline’s CEO and founder Skuli Mogensen told delegates at the Aviation Festival in London.
British Airways said it has signed a codeshare agreement with Indian domestic carrier Vistara that will allow the introduction of more routes between London and Indian destinations.
