Worldwide air passenger traffic demand grew 7.7% year-over-year in May, slowing from a six-year high 10.9% growth in April, according to IATA’s May Air Passenger Market Analysis.
The South African government has had to step in to pay a looming loan repayment from South African Airways (SAA) to prevent the national carrier from defaulting.
Kunming-based Hongtu Airlines has introduced China’s online travel agency Tongcheng Tourism Group as a strategic investor in an effort to enhance its competitiveness.
UK low-cost carrier (LCC) easyJet is staying silent on its application for a European Union (EU) air operator’s certificate (AOC) and discussions over connecting flights until they are finalized.
Brussels Airlines said the wet lease of three Sukhoi Superjet 100s (SSJ100s) from Ireland-based CityJet is performing within the carrier’s expectations.
Global air cargo demand grew 12.7% in May compared to a year ago, reflecting ongoing improvement in world trade, IATA said in its May Air Freight Market analysis, but the cyclical growth period may have peaked.
African low-cost carrier (LCC) fastjet has paid $2.5 million to acquire the full intellectual property rights behind its brand from UK company easyGroup.
Istanbul Ataturk Airport (IST) is expected to be removed from the list of airports from which US-bound passengers are required to check large personal electronic devices by July 5, according to Turkish Airlines CEO Bilal Eksi.
Abu Dhabi has been removed from the list of 10 airports from which US-bound passengers are required to check large personal electronic devices rather than carry the devices on board aircraft.
Latvian carrier airBaltic expects to receive two more Bombardier CS300s by mid-July, eight months after becoming the launch customer for the larger CSeries variant.
International Airlines Group (IAG) CEO Willie Walsh said IAG member airlines Level and Vueling are prepared to provide immediate additional capacity if Alitalia is forced to downsize and restructures further.
Since Mehmet Nane became CEO of Turkey’s second-largest airline, low-cost carrier Pegasus Airlines in March 2016, the country has been through a tourism ban by Russia (now removed), an attempted military coup and several terrorist attacks.
Halifax-based Chorus Aviation Capital, the leasing arm of Chorus Aviation, has acquired six ATR 72-600 turboprops with attached leases from Singapore-based lessor Avation PLC, the company said June 29.
US homeland security secretary John Kelly, describing commercial aviation as “the crown jewel target” of terrorists, has announced new security requirements for all US-bound international flights.
American Airlines has reached an agreement with technology firm Analogic to buy $6 million worth of computed tomography (CT) airport checkpoint screening machines that the carrier hopes to deploy at US airports later this year following US government certification of the equipment.
