Air Transport

Delta Air Lines has been named the 2024 Air Transport World Airline of the Year in the 50th Annual ATW Airline Industry Awards, which recognize excellence across a broad range of airline operations. The annual awards ceremony will be held May 31 in Dubai.

OKC is soliciting bids to build a facility to handle arriving international passengers, including a U.S. Customs and Border Protection checkpoint.

LUFTHANSA CITY plans mid-2024 startup out of Munich with four A319s, serving Berlin, Hamburg, Bremen, Düsseldorf, Cologne, Hanover, Birmingham, Bordeaux and Manchester; 60 A220-300s have been ordered/optioned for its future fleet.

ULTRAMAIN SYSTEMS was selected by Norse Atlantic to provide its electronic logbook to replace paper technical log, cabin log, journey log, and fueling logs on 15 787s.

NETWORK AIRLINE MANAGEMENT renewed deal with TAAG Angola to operate 747-400F (30761) on weekly Liege-Angola.

COPENHAGEN AIRTAXI leased ex-HelloJets 737-800 (35101) from ALC for operation on behalf of AIRSEVEN.

CABO VERDE AIRLINES agreed to wet-lease ATR 72-600 (1452) from Air Senegal to resume domestic services.

BREEZE AIRWAYS took delivery of new A220-300 (55257) on lease from AerCap. It now has 22 A220s.

NAVBLUE was selected by Delta Air Lines to provide Mission+ electronic flight folder (eFF) for deployment on >900 Airbus and Boeing aircraft.

Ed Bastian, CEO of Delta, was presented with John Wooden Global Leadership Award by UCLA Anderson School of Management.

AIR TRANSAT finalized collective bargaining agreement with CUPE-represented flight attendants, ending strike threat.

ROYAL JORDANIAN plans to begin Amman-London Stansted on March 3 and -Manchester on March 6 (A319).

LAX handled 5.7m pax in January, up 4% from 5.5m in January 2023.

ATSG had $60.3m net income in 2023 (vs $198.6m in 2022) on 1.2% higher revenues as it saw lower demand in its leasing segment and reduced airline demand in 4Q23. CARGO AIRCRAFT MANAGEMENT ended year with 90 freighters out on lease (vs 91 a year ago) with another 14 767s, six A321s and three A330s in or awaiting conversion.

The Mexican ULCC believes inspections of GTF engines will extend into 2026 despite the powerplant’s manufacturer Pratt & Whitney increasing shop capacity.

A traffic collision avoidance system alert was triggered Feb. 24 by lack of separation between an Ethiopian Airlines Airbus A350 and a Qatar Airways Boeing 787.

Universal Hydrogen has run its megawatt-class fuel cell powertrain testbed using fuel supplied by its liquid hydrogen module for the first time.

Lufthansa has announced the first operational plans for its new affiliate City Airlines, a project highly contentious for its labor unions.

Uzbekistan Airways is planning to issue an IPO and Qazaq Air's major shareholder is looking to sell.

PLAY had flagged a need to strengthen liquidity after a series of external factors adversely impacted the airline’s full-year results.

The airlines say a U.S. District Court ruling blocking their proposed merger ignores the vast majority in favor of a few.

The ongoing Russia-Ukraine war has led to a multitude of global dilemmas, flight routing being only one piece of the puzzle.

Kagoshima Airport (KOJ) in Japan is assessing the potential impact on its cargo operations as a second TSMC semiconductor plant is expected to be built in neighboring Kumamoto.

Aeromexico is adding a new destination to its U.S. network amid uncertainty about the future of its transborder joint venture with Delta Air Lines.