Air Belgium is targeting seven Chinese destinations by fall as the startup carrier readies its first flight from Brussels South Charleroi Airport to Hong Kong at the end of April, its CEO Niky Terzakis told ATW’s sister publication Aviation Daily.
UK-based regional carrier Flybe has announced a combination of continued improvement in load factor, together with a reduction in available capacity as it slims down its fleet.
Delta Air Lines said strong first-quarter demand generated “positive results” in “all geographic entities,” adding that international unit revenues outperformed domestic, the Atlanta-based carrier said in an investor update.
US regional Great Lakes Airlines, which ceased scheduled passenger flights operations March 26, did not provide the required advance notice of changes, according to the US Department of Transportation (DOT), which ordered the carrier to resume flights.
An analysis of second- and third-quarter schedules at US majors Dallas/Fort Worth-based American Airlines, Atlanta-based Delta Air Lines, and Dallas-based Southwest Airlines show an aggregate domestic capacity boost of 4%, compared to just 1% internationally.
China Eastern Airlines reported a net profit of CNY6.4 billion ($983 million) in 2017, up 41% over net income of CNY4.5 billion in 2016 as market demand continues to grow and exchange rates improve.
Niche scheduled charter provider OneJet has begun new nonstop service between West Palm Beach (PBI) and its Pittsburgh International Airport (PIT) hub, and plans to keep expanding as its Embraer ERJ-135 fleet grows.
UK LCC easyJet is nearly half-way through the process of transferring 130 of its UK-registered Airbus A319s/A320s to its Vienna-based sibling easyJet Europe.
A series of planned one-day strikes called by Portuguese cabin crew union SNPVAC is threatening Ryanair service to Portugal over the upcoming Easter holiday.
Japan’s All Nippon Airways (ANA) Group has confirmed it will retain the main hub operations of both its LCC subsidiaries Peach Aviation and Vanilla Air after the airlines are merged.
New Austrian carrier LaudaMotion and Irish LCC Ryanair have outlined details about their new partnership, which was announced March 20. LaudaMotion officially launched operations March 25.
US airlines are seeing strong international growth supported by steady domestic returns in the first half of the year, as RASM trends upward 2.5%-3%, a UBS analysis of ticket sales suggests.
Air China reported a 2017 net profit of CNY7.2 billion ($1.1 billion), up 6.3% over net income of CNY6.8 billion in 2016 as market demand continues to grow.
Qatar Airways CEO Akbar Al Baker sees opportunities in the global aircraft leasing business, but acknowledged the Doha-based carrier needs to “become aggressive because this is a very strong profit center for the airline.”
China’s HNA Group canceled an initial public offering (IPO) for Switzerland’s Gategroup at the last minute because of a gap in valuation under current market conditions, dealing a blow to the debt-ridden Chinese company.
