PAS Technologies has named Amy Hoage as VP, business development, based in West Des Moines, Iowa. Hoage is former director of aerospace business development for Goodrich Corp. Engine Components. EgyptAir Maintenance and Engineering appointed Saied El-Mekkawy as chairman and CEO. KLM E&M has named Ton Dortmans as EVP, succeeding Peter de Swert.
Starting in August, LAN and its sister airline, LAN Peru, will increase frequencies out of their respective hubs of Santiago and Lima to major destinations in the US, Mexico and the Caribbean.
United Parcel Service (UPS) confirmed last week that it is attempting to acquire TNT Express, the major European delivery operator that was spun off last year from Dutch mail services provider NLPost.
British Airways’ (BA) Boeing 747 service from London (LHR)-Moscow Domodedovo (DME) became uncertain after Russian civil aviation authorities said they did not approve the aircraft.
American Airlines (AA) parent AMR Corp., which filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection last November, incurred a $2 billion full-year net loss in 2011, according to a US Securities and Exchange Commission filing.
Aeroflot (SU) and Russian state corporation Rostechnology will form an MRO joint venture (JV) and will release details of the business plan at the end of May.
SkyWest Inc., parent of SkyWest Airlines and ExpressJet Airlines, reported a 2011 net loss of $27.3 million, reversed from net income of $96.4 million in 2010.
Chinese carriers reported a collective net profit of CNY1.98 billion ($314.5 million) in January, down 29.9% compared to CNY2.82 billion in the same period of last year.
Transaero Airlines (UN) is close to inking a deal with Sukhoi Civil Aircraft Co (SCAC) for a firm order of six Sukhoi Superjet 100s plus 10 options, CEO Olga Pleshakova said.
Pratt & Whitney has signed two seven-year agreements worth an estimated $450 million with Japan Airlines to provide maintenance services for its PW4090 engines, as well as part repair services for its fleet of PW4074, PW4077 and JT9D engines.
Alaska Air Group (AAG) has announced that chairman and CEO Bill Ayer will retire from his chief executive role, effective May 15, and Alaska Airlines (AS) president Brad Tilden will become CEO of AAG.
The number of passengers carried by airlines in the Asia/Pacific region will grow by 5.9% annually over the next 20 years, well above the global average of 4.8%, according to the latest market forecast by Airbus.
Wings Air (IW), the regional subsidiary of Lion Air (JT), will take an additional 27 ATR 72-600s by the end of 2015 and will become the largest operator of ATR aircraft in the world with 20 ATR 72-500s and 40 ATR 72-600s.
Lufthansa Technik AG (LHT) chairman August Wilhelm Henningsen told reporters in Singapore Wednesday that LHT has “a very positive feedback for the introduction of the [Airbus] A380.”
Bombardier Aerospace and Garuda Indonesia (GA) said Wednesday the carrier has committed to up to 36 Bombardier CRJ1000 NextGens to support its domestic and regional operations from its Makassar, Medan and Balikpapan hubs.
Troubled Kingfisher Airlines (IT) has not paid employees since December and was unable to make a planned salary disbursement last week. India's The Economic Times and Mint newspapers quoted a Feb. 11 email to airline employees from CEO Sanjay Aggarwal, stating, "Unfortunately, we got hit by a couple of large unanticipated payments which had to be addressed on an emergency basis." This necessitated another paycheck postponement, he explained.
