Lufthansa and Turkish Airlines joint venture SunExpress has signed up with Immfly to provide its passengers with its digital inflight entertainment (IFE) platform in a move aimed at improving choice for passengers and increasing ancillary revenues.
LJUBLJUANA, Lithuania—Romania's Blue Air operates 29 Boeing 737s, including both Classics and NGs, but is in the process of replacing its Classics with 737 Max-family versions, said Adrian Ionascu, the Romanian low-cost carrier’s director of third-party contracts.
Air Canada and Air China signed their long-expected joint venture (JV) agreement, setting up a partnership poised to capitalize on the growing market between their two countries.
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) 74th Annual General Meeting (AGM) urged governments to take a cautious approach when considering airport privatisation.
Jomo Kenyatta International airport control tower in Nairobi, Kenya, today reported that it has lost contact with a caravan aircraft with a capacity of 12 passengers operated by East African Safari Air Express registration number 5Y CAC.
Moving to the Istanbul New Airport will help Turkish Airlines forget its recent troubles and once again focus on profitable growth, chief executive Bilal Ekşi tells Martin Rivers.
IATA revised downward its profit forecast for this year as fuel and labor costs rise. The industry has to be careful to protect its margins, but not everything is under its own control.
PARIS–Toulouse, France-based turboprop manufacturer ATR said Japan Air Commuter Co. Ltd’s (JAC) decision to convert one of the ATR 42-600s it has on order into an ATR 72-600 sets up the ATR 72’s arrival in Japan for the first time.
The British government has given its long-awaited backing to the expansion of London’s Heathrow airport in a major milestone toward the construction of a third runway.
The FAA will use its officially designated unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) test sites to demonstrate a low-altitude UAS Traffic Management (UTM) system for drones, as required by Congress.
Mango acting CEO, Nic Vlok, has been with the South African Airways (SAA) low-cost subsidiary since just before the airline launched in 2006. Victoria Moores caught up with him to find out what life has been like since former CEO, Nico Bezuidenhout, jumped ship to run rival African LCC Fastjet.
Cathay Pacific is planning additional long-haul destinations that would be a good match for its Airbus A350-1000s, with the first of these aircraft due to be delivered on June 19.
Airline profitability remains uneven geographically, with carriers in much of the world struggling to earn a profit even as the overall industry continues to generate record revenue and earn robust annual income.
New-generation widebodies are prompting some airlines to seek out potential new city pairs that can be served nonstop with flight times of 17 hr. or longer.
The airline industry is pushing for new technology and initiatives to streamline border processing for passengers, with trials underway at some airports.
Finalizing and formally adopting regulations later this month for the monitoring, reporting and verification (MRV) of emissions for the Carbon Offset and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation (CORSIA) is critical to keeping the ICAO program on track to start on time, according to the head of the Air Transport Action Group (ATAG).
