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.
A microburst was likely a major factor in the July 31 accident involving an Aeromexico Embraer 190 that went down as it was departing Durango, Mexico. Investigators reported they have not found any mechanical anomalies or obvious errors made by the pilots.
The CEO of Italy’s state railway company, Ferrovie dello Stato (FS), sees synergies with Alitalia that are worth reviewing, he told an Italian newspaper, as the country’s government pondered what to do with the bankrupt carrier.
The competitive response of the three major transatlantic airline joint ventures “has to be taken into account” as JetBlue Airways ponders whether to launch flights to Europe, CEO Robin Hayes told an audience at the Aviation Festival in London on Sept. 6.
A newly emerging issue around increased engine vibrations is severely affecting utilization of the Pratt & Whitney PW1100G-powered Airbus A320neo in-service fleet and threatens to slow the airframer’s recovery from delivery delays, several industry sources told Aviation Week.
The U.S. Transportation Security Administration’s (TSA) administrator, David Pekoske, defended the effectiveness of TSA’s controversial “Quiet Skies” surveillance program, calling it “critically important to our security” and telling lawmakers it “does not take into account a traveler’s race or religion.”
Alternative-parts manufacturing specialist Heico Corp. is cautiously optimistic that the recent settlement between CFM International and IATA will allow competition in the engine parts aftermarket and could lead to more sales.
LCC flydubai saw its first-half loss more than double compared to the same period in 2017, caused by a combination of sharply higher fuel prices and a “challenging” economic and geopolitical climate.
Nordic LCC Primera Air continues its long-haul expansion, adding nonstop long-haul services from Frankfurt and Berlin Tegel to Boston (Massachusetts), New York JFK, Toronto and Montreal (Canada).
Chicago-based United Airlines expressed confidence in its current financial outlook with the issuance of updated revenue guidance for the third quarter of 2018, as part of the company’s presentation at the Cowen and Company Annual Global Transportation Conference in Boston Sept. 5.
For a second consecutive quarter, Hawaiian Airlines has lowered its guidance for forthcoming quarterly revenue related to hazardous environmental conditions, with the culprit affecting 3Q 2018 RASM being the hurricane that approached and brushed the Hawaiian island chain in late August.
SF Airlines has started China’s first courier cargo airline to operate scheduled service from China to Singapore. The inaugural Boeing 767-300F flight from Shenzhen arrived at Singapore’s Changi Airport on Sept. 4.
Airlines were forced to suspend operations for a second day Sept. 5 at Osaka Kansai International Airport due to severe flooding, and there was no indication of when the airport will reopen.
A proposed airfreight carrier partly owned by China’s YTO Express Airlines will proceed to the organization phase, a step toward beginning operations, following approval from the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC).
Ryanair pilots who belong to the Irish Air Line Pilots’ Association (IALPA) have voted unanimously in favor of a collective agreement, marking a step forward in talks between the LCC and its Irish pilots and introducing the possibility that the airline may not reduce its Dublin-based fleet as threatened.
Norwegian will stick to its strategy of selling up to 140 aircraft, the airline wrote in an investor presentation Sept. 4, confirming plans for large-scale asset disposals.
China’s Guangxi Beibu Gulf Airlines (GX Airlines) has filed a preliminary schedule for daily service from Nanning to Singapore, according to routesonline.com.
Embraer X, an Embraer organisation dedicated to developing disruptive businesses, today unveiled its first electrical Vertical Take-Off and Landing (eVTOL) aircraft concept.
Emirates Group has reversed its fortunes after last year’s disappointing financial results reporting a full year profit of $1.1billion a 65% increase on last year’s performance.
