HNA Group—parent of Hainan Airlines—plans to adjust its overseas investments to better comply with China’s stricter national policies regarding overseas investments and implementation of “One Belt One Road” policy.
Sweden-based cargo airline West Atlantic has confirmed it is in “advanced discussions” with potential investors as the carrier seeks to bolster its balance sheet after a tough first nine months of the year.
American Airlines and the Allied Pilots Association (APA), which represents 14,500 American pilots, both say the holiday pilot-staffing problem has been resolved and no flights will be canceled in December because of the issue.
A US federal court has granted Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings’ request for a preliminary injunction against its pilots. The Purchase, New York-based cargo operator had accused the pilots of its Atlas Air, Polar Air and Southern Air subsidiaries of an intentional work slowdown amidst ongoing contract negotiations.
Niki Lauda, ex-Formula 1 champion and founder of Austria-based airberlin subsidiary NIKI, confirmed his ongoing interest in partnering with UK-based Thomas Cook Group and its German leisure airline subsidiary Condor to bid for NIKI.
UK-based LCC easyJet has signed a deal with Latvian ACMI and charter specialist SmartLynx Airlines to operate services out of Berlin Tegel Airport for almost three months, as the UK carrier seeks to acquire parts of insolvent airberlin’s operations.
Middle East LCC Air Arabia is largely limiting its operations from its Jordanian hub to charter flights, after being unable to secure enough traffic rights to allow it to expand its scheduled services.
The world air freight market is on track for its strongest year of growth since the global economic crisis rebound of 2010, according to IATA’s October Air Freight Market Analysis released Dec. 1.
Singapore-based LCC Scoot, a subsidiary of Singapore Airlines (SIA) Group, will expand its network to Europe with the launch off 4X-weekly Singapore-Berlin services starting in mid-2018.
Airbus expects strong traffic growth in the South Pacific market will continue over the next 20 years, increasing the number of Australasian hubs ranked in the largest global categories.
American Airlines indicated it is well on its way to resolving the pilot-staffing situation related to holiday season flights, saying it is down to just “a few hundred” unassigned flights.
Reunion-based Air Austral has closed its acquisition of 49% of Air Madagascar, cementing a strategic partnership between the two airlines and kicking off Air Madagascar’s turnaround.
Aeroflot's financial results for the first nine months and the third quarter of 2017 reflect a normalization of profitability and the effect of a number of market factors that affected results for the first half of the year.
New Air France airline Joon is to open seven routes in spring 2018, including its first longer routes to Cairo (Egypt), Cape Town (South Africa) and Tehran (Iran).
The regulatory clearance gives ATR access to the Canadian market in the 68-78-seat turboprop sector, which is currently dominated by Montreal-based Bombardier’s Q400.
Dubai-based flydubai has doubled the number of Dubai-Moscow flights, launching daily Boeing 737-800 service between Dubai and Moscow Sheremetyevo International Airport.
Venezuelan carrier Avior Airlines has been added to the list of airlines that are banned from the European Union (EU) in the latest update of the EU Air Safety List, which is more commonly known as the EU blacklist.
Russia’s S7 Airlines and Qatar Airways plan to expand their existing codeshare agreement to include flights from Russia to Australia’s Sydney, Adelaide and Perth via Doha.
A technical glitch in American Airlines’ pilot scheduling system has left the Dallas/Fort Worth-based carrier without enough pilots during the upcoming holiday season, igniting a social media uproar Nov. 29 when news of the situation became public.
The European Commission (EC) is seriously considering blocking the planned acquisition of airberlin subsidiary NIKI by Lufthansa, according to industry sources.
