Ryanair expects to cancel around 30 flights between Ireland and the UK on July 12, with pilots in Ireland expected to maintain a planned strike over concerns about base transfers and pilot seniority agreements, despite plans for the airline to meet the Irish Airline Pilots’ Association (IALPA) union.
Virgin Galactic has signed a framework agreement to bring commercial space flight to Italy, following two years of business discussions, regulatory analysis, studies on potential operations and market assessment.
Malaysian long-haul LCC AirAsia X announced July 10 it will move its twice-daily operations to Melbourne, Australia, from Tullamarine International Airport to Avalon Airport.
Turkish Airlines said its first-half 2018 load factor reached the highest level in its history, with a 4.3-point year-over-year (YOY) increase to 80.4%, helped by a 17.8% YOY increase in passenger traffic during the January-June period to 35.6 million passengers.
Singapore Airlines (SIA) has revealed that its second nonstop route to the U.S. using Airbus A350-900ULRs will launch on Nov. 2, with the flight from Singapore to Los Angeles replacing one of its two one-stop services between the cities.
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) announced global passenger traffic results for September showing that demand (measured in revenue passenger kilometers, or RPKs) rose 5.5% compared to the same month in 2017.
JetBlue Airways, providing a major boost to the newly rebranded Airbus A220 line and delivering a notable blow to Embraer, placed an order for 60 A220-300s and earmarked them as E190 replacements.
One crew member was killed and about 19 people injured when a twin-engine Convair CV-340 airliner crashed July 10 outside of Wonderboom Airport, near Pretoria, South Africa, according to media reports.
ATR is developing a new version of the ATR 42-600’s and ATR 72-600’s multifunction computer (MFC) and is promising it will make maintenance more straightforward.
Southwest Airlines grew ASMs 3.3% year-over-year (YOY) in the second quarter, with a weak June cementing results that came in below its early June projection of 3.5%—the latest sign that the carrier’s 2018 growth will be on the lower end of its guidance.
Pilots at Allegiant Air are threatening to strike over what they claim is foot-dragging by the company on installing a new crew schedule-bidding system, while the airline insists that the process is moving along.
Airbus hopes to secure “several hundred" additional orders for the newly renamed A220—formerly the Bombardier C Series—this year, according to Eric Schulz, Airbus' chief commercial officer.
Supersonic airliner developer Boom Technologies has narrowed the choice of candidate powerplants to derivatives of existing low-bypass-ratio turbofans.
The U.S. Treasury Department has designated for sanctions a Malaysia-based ticketing agent that does business with Iranian airline Mahan Air, which the department accuses of supporting terrorism.
