GE Capital Aviation Services (GECAS) announced Monday an order for 40 Boeing 737s made up of 20 MAX 8s and 20 737-800s. The order, which was accounted for in Boeing’s 2013 net orders and attributed to an unidentified customer, is valued at $3.9 billion at list prices.
Qatar Airways will take one of the two new licenses being granted by the Saudi Arabian civil aviation regulator, GACA, to create a regional carrier operating domestic services in the country.
Abu Dhabi-based Etihad Airways has conducted a biofuel demonstration flight as a step toward the production of sustainable aviation fuel in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
The two pilots of the Southwest Airlines Boeing 737-700 that landed at the wrong airport Jan. 12 in Missouri told National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) investigators they flew a “visual approach into what they believed to be Branson Airport” and that they “did not realize they were at the wrong airport until they had landed.”
Singapore Airlines and Air New Zealand will join forces in a new alliance that will see the return of the New Zealand carrier to Singapore after an absence of almost eight years.
United Parcel Service (UPS) has issued a profit warning, saying it anticipates full-year 2013 earnings to be below expectations owing mostly to difficulties the company had around the Christmas holiday.
Airberlin, which has taken legal action against Berlin Brandenburg airport operator Flughafen Berlin Brandenburg GmbH (BER) for at least €48 million ($66 million) in damages over continued delays in the opening of BER, is still open for an out-of-court settlement.
A Lufthansa spokesperson has told ATW it has not yet made a decision on the Group’s next CEO after several German media reported Carsten Spohr, currently in charge of Lufthansa Passenger Airline, had been selected as the Group’s new CEO.
United Continental will furlough 688 flight attendants, as part of a cost-cutting strategy outlined in November to cut $2 billion in annual costs and increase yearly ancillary revenue by $700 million by 2017.
Brazil’s National Civil Aviation Agency (ANAC) has approved 1,973 extra flights between June 6 and July 20 to cover the expected huge increase in demand during FIFA World Cup in Brazil.
African low-cost carrier Fastjet is in what it describes as “very positive” discussions with the Zambian government, Tourist Board and other stakeholders over plans to establish an operational base in Lusaka.
US airlines (passenger, charter and cargo) collectively employed 583,594 full-time and part-time workers in November, dropping 0.2% from November 2012, according to the US Department of Transportation’s Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS).
SaudiGulf Airlines—a new, full-service airline created to bring competition on domestic Saudi Arabian routes—was unveiled at the Bahrain International Airshow Thursday.
Bombardier has pushed its service-entry target for the CSeries airliner back by at least 12 months, saying it will take longer than planned to complete certification flight testing.
Airbus has flagged 2014 as a pivotal year for its Airbus A350 XWB program, as it ramps up its flight test program ahead of the -900’s entry into service with Qatar Airways later this year.
Etihad Airways and its new Swiss regional equity partner Darwin Airline have announced the destinations Darwin will add under its new identity as Etihad Regional.
American Airlines Group will end year-round daily nonstop services to 17 cities from Washington National airport and three cities from New York LaGuardia as part of its regulatory requirement to divest slots at the airport.
The much-delayed opening of the new Berlin Brandenburg International Airport is creating a “high double-digit million euro amount of damage” to airberlin, CEO Wolfgang Prock-Schauer told ATW.
