Russian Aeroflot (SU) has sold 51% of its newly acquired, Saratov-based subsidiary Saravia Airlines (6W) to private investors. The price and the purchaser were not disclosed.
Qantas (QF) has made individual payments of up to $400,000 (A$393,000) each in a settlement with 144 passengers who were onboard a flight that made two sharp descents.
In a move designed to strengthen and optimize its international network, Air China (CA) on March 10 will resume service to Paris CDG from Shanghai Pudong using a Boeing 777-300ER.
Southwest Airlines (SWA) has reached a tentative agreement with the unions representing flight attendants of the merged SWA and AirTran Airways that would integrate the two groups’ seniority lists.
Transaero Airlines (UN) has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Boeing for four Boeing 787s. The deal is valued at $774 million at list prices.
Internet bookings have lifted Lufthansa’s (LH) position in Russia to be the country’s biggest foreign carrier, according to LH regional director-Russia and the CIS Ronald Schultz.
Lufthansa (LH) will transfer more flights out of Stuttgart (STR) to its low-cost subsidiary Germanwings (4U) beginning next year as both carriers optimize their route networks.
LOT Polish Airlines (LOT), which first operated Warsaw (WAW) service to Beijing (PEK) from summer 1987 to the end of 1999, plans to re-open the route in 2012 with a Boeing 767—and by the end of 2012, with a Boeing787. It will be the second resumption for LOT, which operated WAW-PEK for four months in 2008.
Evergreen International Airlines, the Oregon-based cargo carrier, has signed up for a Boeing 747-400 passenger-to-freighter conversion that will be delivered in 2012, Boeing said.
Sabena technics has named Jacques Bernardi as EVP-component services. Bernardi joins Sabena from Goodrich Actuation Systems where he served as director-aftermarket and MRO. Damco has appointed Flemming Frost as its new CEO for Europe, replacing Kim Hedegaard Sorenson Jan. 1. Frost comes from Damco North Asia, where he oversaw branch operations in Mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan.
More than 2,100 ExpressJet and Atlantic Southeast Airlines (ASA) flight attendants have voted to join the International Assn. of Machinists and Aerospace Workers. The election was prompted by the merger of the two airlines after Utah-based SkyWest Inc. last year acquired Houston-based ExpressJet and announced it would merge with SkyWest's Atlanta-based subsidiary ASA ( ATW Daily News, Oct. 17).
Nok Mini Saab 340. Courtesy, SAL Saab Aircraft Leasing (SAL) has completed the sale of an undisclosed number of aircraft from its European portfolio to four companies and agreed a lease with a fifth company.
LAN Airlines shareholders approved the Santiago de Chile-based carrier's planned merger with Brazil's TAM under LATAM Airlines Group, taking another step toward the expected completion of the combination early next year.
The Independent Pilots Assn. (IPA), representing about 2,700 United Parcel Service (UPS) pilots, petitioned a US federal court in Washington Thursday, challenging cargo carriers' exemption from new pilot flight time, duty and rest regulations finalized by FAA Wednesday.
British Airways (BA) owner International Airlines Group (IAG) reached a binding agreement with Lufthansa Group (LH) to buy British Midland Ltd. (bmi), the companies announced Thursday.
Saab Aircraft Leasing (SAL) has completed the sale of an undisclosed number of aircraft from its European portfolio to four companies and agreed to a lease with a fifth company.
All Nippon Airways (ANA), launch customer for the Boeing 787, announced that Seattle, Wash., and San Jose, Calif., will be the aircraft’s first US destinations from fiscal year 2012.
