Spirit Airlines’ dispatchers, represented by the Transport Workers Union (TWU), have ratified a new five-year labor agreement, which became effective Friday.
US airlines (passenger and cargo) collectively employed 484,964 full-time workers in June, budging just 0.1% from June 2012, according to the US Department of Transportation’s Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS).
Footnotes: * International only. 1. January - June. 2. January - May. 3. Includes Regional operations. 4. Combined American Eagle, Executive Airlines and American Connection. 5. Combined traffic for SkyWest Airlines and ExpressJet Airlines. 6. YTD 02013 from 4/26/13
The flight data recorder (FDR) and cockpit voice recorder (CVR) have been recovered from the United Parcel Service (UPS) Airbus A300-600 freighter that crashed on approach to Birmingham, Ala., Airport.
A US federal bankruptcy judge has declined to rule on whether to approve American Airlines’ plan to emerge from Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, citing the lawsuit filed earlier in the week by the US Department of Justice (DOJ) that seeks to prevent American’s planned merger with US Airways.
German carrier airberlin recorded improved second-quarter figures year-over-year, but warned that difficult market conditions were making the chances of reaching its targets “increasingly challenging.”
Jazz Air parent Chorus Aviation reported second-quarter net income of C$7.9 million ($7.5 million), down 65.1% from a C$22.6 million profit in the year-ago period.
US airlines reported a 71.9% on-time arrival rate in June, down from June 2012’s 80.7% on-time rate and falling from May 2013’s 79.4% posted rate, according to the US Department of Transportation (DOT) Air Travel Consumer Report.
Lawyers for American Airlines and US Airways said the airlines are “looking forward” to challenging the US Department of Justice’s (DOJ) lawsuit seeking to block the companies’ planned merger, saying the government’s antitrust case won’t hold up to scrutiny in federal court.
International Airlines Group (IAG), parent company of Iberia and British Airways, has secured firm orders and options for up to 220 Airbus A320 family short-haul aircraft.
Brazilian low-cost carrier GOL posted a second-quarter net loss of BRL433 million ($193.6 million), narrowed from a net loss of BRL715.1 million in the year-ago quarter.
American Airlines and US Airways have vowed to “fight” the US Department of Justice’s (DOJ) effort to derail their planned mega-merger over antitrust concerns, saying the proposed combination of the two carriers is “pro-competitive” and good for consumers.
In an unexpected development, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) has moved to block the planned US Airways-American Airlines merger, saying the combination “would result in hundreds of millions of dollars of harm to American consumers.”
Fledgling Dutch airline Maastricht Airlines—which planned to launch flights in March using two Fokker 50 turboprops—is seeking to reinvent itself after its initial attempt to get off the ground stalled.
