Minneapolis-based LCC Sun Country expects to have 10 Boeing 737-800 converted freighters operating on behalf of Amazon by the end of this summer, the airline’s president and CEO said at Routes Americas.
Boeing predicts transatlantic passenger air traffic flow to grow 2.8% annually over the next 20 years in terms of RPKs, indicating one of the world’s most popular air traffic corridors still has plenty of room to grow, Routes 2020 Americas delegates heard.
Spirit Airlines will prioritize increasing network connectivity over adding new destinations in 2020, marking a shift in strategy amid signs of route maturation across its network.
Russia’s Aeroflot Airline will launch 5X-weekly Moscow Sheremetyevo-Singapore service from Oct. 25, the first step in a strategy to develop its Europe-Asia network.
Dominican Republic-based ULCC Flycana hopes to launch operations during the 2020 fourth quarter and has ambitions to more than double the destinations it serves from the Dominican Republic by its fifth year of operations.
The Chinese Lunar New Year is traditionally one of the strongest periods for Chinese airlines, where millions of Chinese citizens travel across the country to return home for the festive season.
United Airlines has purchased a Phoenix-area flight training academy to feed into its pilot pipeline, part of the carrier’s efforts to hire more than 10,000 new pilots by 2029.
Panasonic Avionics Corp. said Feb. 5 that it will supply the inflight entertainment (IFE) system for Kuwait Airways’ new Airbus A330-800neo widebodies.
Cathay Pacific Airways has asked its 27,000 employees to take three weeks of unpaid leave to “preserve cash,” as the Hong Kong-based carrier deals with the widespread Wuhan coronavirus in China, following seven months of anti-government protests that have severely affected the airline.
The UK’s Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has ruled that Ryanair advertisements, claiming it is Europe’s greenest airline, are misleading and banned the Irish LCC from repeating the ads in their current form.
VIENNA—German leisure airline TUI fly announced the first long-haul destinations for its new Boeing 787-8 fleet, which will begin services from Dusseldorf, Germany to Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic on Nov. 4.
American Airlines and United Airlines both announced on Feb. 4 plans to suspend their Hong Kong operations through Feb. 20, citing lower travel demand caused by the spread of a novel coronavirus in China.
[DEVELOPING STORY] A Pegasus Airlines Boeing 737-800 skidded off a runway after landing at Istanbul-Sabiha Gökçen International Airport, Turkey, on Feb. 5.
Qatar Airways is set to take a 49% stake in RwandAir, the national carrier of the central African nation of Rwanda, Qatar Airways Group CEO Akbar Al Baker announced Feb. 5.
United Airlines is emphasizing flexibility in its next major narrowbody engine overhaul contract, seeking CFM56 support vendors that can handle both full overhauls and quick turns as well as eyeing more alternative-part usage, two of the airline’s executives told AeroEngines Americas attendees.
Abu Dhabi-based Etihad Airways has agreed to sell a large portfolio of Boeing 777-300ERs, Airbus A330-300s and -200s to U.S.-based aviation financier Altavair AirFinance and global investment specialist KKR for $1 billion.
Aviation investor Indigo Partners has sold the majority of its 20.6% stake in Central and Eastern European LCC Wizz Air for £500 million ($653.8 million).
American Airlines inked an agreement to codeshare with Brazil’s GOL, bolstering its Latin American network in the face of an aggressive regional expansion by Delta Air Lines.
Santiago, Chile-based LATAM Airlines Group plans to leave oneworld alliance on May 1, eight months after SkyTeam member Delta Air Lines took a 20% stake in the Latin American company.
Cathay Pacific projects that its mainland China network will be almost completely suspended as a result of the novel coronavirus outbreak, dealing another blow to the carrier before it has recovered from a severe demand drop in 2019.
