Community pushback over noise and controller staffing constraints pose challenges to FAA’s pending initiative to focus air traffic management (ATM) improvements in the U.S. Northeast corridor, aviation experts said.
Spirit Airlines, continuing its strategy to focus on core large U.S. markets and leisure markets, plans to have 14 new destinations out of its Orlando International Airport (MCO) focus city this fall, including 11 new markets in Latin America and the Caribbean, the carrier said June 14.
Polish national carrier LOT plans to start services from its Warsaw hub to London City Airport (LCY) and acquire four Embraer E190s specifically for the route.
Atlanta-based Delta Air Lines expanded its transpacific partnership with Korean Air June 14 with the announcement of a new nonstop route between Seattle-Tacoma International Airport (SEA) and Osaka, Japan’s Kansai International Airport (KIX) starting in 2019; specific schedule details were not released.
The respective collapse and entry into administration of Etihad Airways’ equity partner airlines airberlin and Alitalia, a subsequent restructuring and rising fuel costs led to another heavy loss for the Abu Dhabi-based carrier in 2017.
Air France has urged unions to call off planned strikes as it promised measures to improve the daily lives of its staff, but warned no new pay negotiations would take place while Air France-KLM is run by an interim management team.
Despite over a million onboard passengers in May, a record for the month, Hawaiian Airlines revised its guidance for second-quarter revenue downward, citing “a reduction in the pace of domestic bookings following an increase in volcanic activity on the Big Island of Hawaii.”
EasyJet plans to take delivery of the first of the Airbus A321neos it has on order at the Farnborough Airshow in July, Francois Bacchetta, director of easyJet France, said at a June 14 media briefing at Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport.
Hinting at future projects, Comac is studying designs for supersonic transports, subsonic airliners with externally braced wings and blended-wing-body concepts.
AirAsia is accusing a Malaysian regulatory body of stifling the growth of aviation services by being too restrictive in the approval of new routes and frequencies.
The European Commission (EC) removed all Indonesian carriers from the European Union (EU) Air Safety List after aviation safety improvements in the country and as a system to prevent unsafe aircraft from entering European airspace starts operating.
The share of traffic and revenue coming from international premium passengers held steady in the first quarter compared to year-earlier figures despite apparent sluggishness in the key North Atlantic and Europe-Asia markets, IATA said.
Air New Zealand is planning to boost the size of its domestic fleet by transferring Airbus A320s from its international operation, and is also considering ordering up to seven additional A321neos to use on domestic routes.
Aspiring ultra-LCC Canada Jetlines firmed up its deal to lease two 12-year-old Airbus A320s from AerCap and plans to use them to launch operations, likely in early 2019.
Airbus believes it has defined the blueprint for future new production lines and developed technology it can also apply to its legacy production systems now that it has opened the fourth A320/A320neo family final assembly line (FAL) in Hamburg.
Progress toward completing FAA’s NextGen air traffic control (ATC) modernization program is lagging, U.S. Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao told the Aero Club of Washington in a June 13 address.
The U.S. Air Cargo Advance Screening (ACAS) program became mandatory as scheduled June 12, requiring airlines flying to the U.S. to provide advanced information of cargo shipments to Customs and Border Protection (CBP).
