Thomas Cook Airlines Group is planning to establish a second hub in Manchester and will base a third Airbus A330-200 starting from the winter season 2013-14.
The Indian government is examining India’s air traffic rights with Austria and Switzerland, four years after their national carriers—Austrian Airlines and Swiss International Air Lines—were acquired by Lufthansa, according to several Indian media reports.
Guernsey-based regional carrier Aurigny is to acquire its first jet, an Embraer E-195, so it can replace capacity lost by Flybe’s London Gatwick-Guernsey exit.
Indonesia’s Lion Group intends to expand its Wings Flying School and Lion Training Centre in Jakarta and is seeking international training partners as part of the growth plan.
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.
