Air Transport

Etihad Airways is launching routes to Warsaw in Poland and Prague in Czechia, marking the first time the airline has flown directly to these countries.

Within 10 years of being founded, FlySafair has rapidly grown to become the dominant domestic airline in South Africa, having more than 60 per cent of the intensely-competitive market. Guy Leitch asked CEO Elmar Conradie how he has accomplished such strong growth and simultaneously achieved significant awards.

Airbus must deliver just over 320 aircraft in the last three months of the year in order to reach its target of handing over around 770 aircraft to customers in 2024.

Air Senegal is cutting flights to destinations in Cameroon, France, Gabon, Italy, Spain and the U.S. as part of a network restructure.

The latest airline route news, featuring network changes, schedule alterations, codeshares and interline agreements.

Kenya Airways says the grounding of two of its Boeing 787-8s powered by GE Aerospace GEnx-1B 70/75s has led to delays and disruptions throughout its network.

Listen in as Aviation Week’s propulsion editor updates our chief Boom skeptic on the company’s latest test flight.

Passengers moving through the Terminal 1 TSA checkpoint at Honolulu Inouye International Airport (HNL) now have the option of presenting a digital ID.

Malaysia Airlines will reintroduce service linking Kuala Lumpur with Paris next year, nine years after the flag carrier suspended the route in 2016.

Complicated by COVID-19, the negotiations have been ongoing for years with some bargaining groups, and patience is wearing thin.

Although there is no imminent threat, pilot groups are stepping up their campaign against reduced-crew and single-pilot concepts.

Flight Friday looks at indexed cycles against the equivalent month in 2019 of passenger narrowbodies and how they have recovered to beyond pre-pandemic levels.

TAP AIR PORTUGAL began three-times-weekly Lisbon-Florianopolis (A330), its 13th destination in Brazil.

Drew Wells to Chief Commercial Officer of Allegiant, Las Vegas; Scott DeAngelo resigned as EVP and Chief Marketing Officer.

GLOBAL CROSSING AIRLINES took delivery of ex-Alaska A320-200 (3670) with CFM56s on lease from WNG Capital. It also agreed to lease two A321P2Fs (1636; ex-Air Busan/1153; ex-Just Us Air) with V2500s from Spectre Air Capital.

US DOT reports US airline fuel cost was $2.58/gallon in July vs $2.54 in June 2024; y-o-y consumption rose 3.1%.

LATAM AIRLINES took delivery of 767-300BCF (40799), following conversion by ST ENGINEERING in Singapore; aircraft is currently parked in Victorville, CA. BOEING has converted 13 767-300s for LATAM at five different facilities.

ALL NIPPON AIRWAYS refinanced a midlife 777-300ER with HALO AirFinance (GA Telesis/Tokyo Century joint venture).

Laura Ivaskaite to Vice President-Commercial and Investments, based in Dublin, of Hanwha Aviation.

VIRGIN ATLANTIC plans to begin London Heathrow-Riyadh (A330-900) on March 30 and -Accra, Ghana (787) on May 1.

HAINAN AIRLINES agreed to lease five LEAP-powered A320neos from Avolon for delivery through end of 2025.

SKYWARD EXPRESS, Kenya leased ex-Horizon Air Dash 8-400 (4047) from Longview Aviation Leasing.

KOREAN AIR placed its first order for Airbus aircraft (six A300B4s) 50 years ago this week.

AMERICAN AIRLINES plans in summer 2025 to begin (all daily) Charlotte-Athens (777), Chicago-Madrid (787), Miami-Rome (777), and Philadelphia-Edinburgh/-Milan (787). It will operate >70 daily flights to 20 transatlantic destinations.

Dainis Bērziņš to Chief Information Officer of airBaltic, Latvia.