Emirates Airline will be the first operator of the Boeing 777X and expects to take delivery of the first aircraft in early 2020, Emirates president Tim Clark says.
Reunion-based Air Austral has finalized its equity joint venture with Air Madagascar, agreeing to take a 49% stake alongside the Madagascan government which will maintain a controlling 51% shareholding.
Commercial airlines flew 3.8 billion passengers in 2016, a 7% increase approximately equivanelt to 242 million additional air trips -- over the previous year, according to IATA’s 2017 World Air Transport Statistics (WATS) report, released Oct. 9.
Bankrupt German carrier airberlin will cease operations Oct. 28 and employees are not guaranteed jobs under any future owner, the airline warned Monday.
Ryanair, rocked by rostering errors that have forced the Irish LCC to cancel thousands of flights over the next five months, has appealed to its pilots to stand by the company.
Traffic on the global air passenger market was up 7.2% year-over-year in August, capping off a solid peak summer traffic season in the northern hemisphere, but there are indications of a general slowdown, according to IATA’s August Air Passenger Market Analysis.
UK-based LCC easyJet anticipates a pre-tax profit between £405-£410 million ($528-$535 million) for its current financial year, despite a challenging market and substantial adverse currency movements.
UK-based LCC easyJet plans to launch German domestic flights from Berlin to Stuttgart, Dusseldorf and Munich if a bid to acquire parts of the insolvent airberlin’s short-haul business is finalized.
Belgium’s deputy prime minister is launching legal action against Ryanair for unfair commercial practices as the fallout from the Irish LCC’s cancellation of thousands of flights—which came about after it mishandled scheduling of pilots’ leave—continues.
SkyTeam members Air France, Delta Air Lines and China Eastern Airlines have completed a series of share transactions aimed at strengthening their strategic partnership.
Hurricane Irma cost Delta Air Lines $120 million in lost revenue, leading the company to lower its third-quarter operating margin expectations by about one percentage point, to between 15.5% and 16.5%, the Atlanta-based carrier said Oct. 3.
The UK’s Monarch Aircraft Engineering Ltd. (MAEL) will continue operations despite the Oct. 2 collapse into administration of Monarch Airlines and Monarch Travel Group.
Ryanair has posted a 10% increase in traffic for September, despite high-profile crewing problems that have forced the Irish LCC to cancel thousands of flights.
Lithuanian leisure carrier Small Planet Airlines has obtained a Cambodian air operator’s certificate (AOC) to help counter European market seasonality.
Singapore Airlines Group (SIA) and Lufthansa Group launched a joint venture (JV) covering flights between Singapore, Australia, Germany, Switzerland, Austria and Belgium Oct. 1.
