Boeing reported a second-quarter net profit of $1.09 billion, up 12.5% over net income of $967 million in the June 2012 quarter, boosted by a 15% year-over-year revenue improvement in its Commercial Airplanes unit.
Florida-based Spirit Airlines earned a second-quarter net profit of $42.1 million, up 21.6% compared to a net income of $23.4 million in the year-ago period.
Hawaiian Holdings, parent of Hawaiian Airlines, reported a second-quarter net income of $11.3 million, nearly tripling the $3.9 million net profit in the year-ago quarter.
ATW’s January-June Top 20 Airline Traffic report reveals Delta Air Line’s ongoing system traffic dominance with RPKs of 151 billion, followed by United Airlines with 140 billion RPKs, Air France-KLM (109.7 billion), Emirates Airline (101.4 billion) and AMR Corp. [American] (101.4 billion).
Hawaiian Holdings, parent of Hawaiian Airlines, reported a second-quarter net income of $11.3 million, nearly tripling the $3.9 million net profit in the year-ago quarter.
Under protest, Ryanair has tabled a remedy proposal by the UK Competition Commission (UKCC), saying it is willing to sell its 29% stake in Aer Lingus to any carrier that acquires more than 50.1% of Aer Lingus’ shares.
Southwest Airlines said Tuesday that the Boeing 737-700 that suffered a nose gear collapse on landing at New York LaGuardia yesterday entered service in October 1999 and was last inspected July 18, just four days before the incident.
Las Vegas-based Allegiant Travel Co., parent of Allegiant Air, reported second-quarter net income of $25.8 million, up 2.3% compared to $25.2 million in the 2012 second quarter.
American Airlines has taken delivery of its first Airbus A319, the first of 260 planned Airbus narrowbody deliveries as part of its fleet renewal program.
United Parcel Service (UPS) posted a second-quarter net profit of $1.07 billion, down 4% from $1.12 billion in net income in the prior-year period, as total revenue grew slower than expenses.
Hungary-based low-cost carrier (LCC) Wizz Air has been approved to launch 5X-weekly Budapest-Moscow Vnukovo service Sept. 23, breaking Russia’s Aeroflot’s monopoly on the route following the 2012 bankruptcy of Malev Hungarian Airlines.
FAA plans to make mandatory inspections of Honeywell emergency locator transmitters (ELT) on Boeing 787s, but has not said it will require the devices to be made inert or removed.
Norwegian Air Shuttle and Thomson Airways have removed the emergency locator transmitters (ELTs) from their Boeing 787s pending the outcome of an investigation into the Ethiopian Airlines 787 fire at London Heathrow Airport.
