The latest US Airline Fuel Cost and Consumption figures - for November 2015 - organized by domestic, international and system totals, contrasted with figures from the previous month, three months prior, six months prior, a year ago, two years ago, five years ago and ten years ago.
Aircraft leased by Russia’s Transaero Airline were not maintained properly in a disregard of lease agreements, Sberbank president Herman Gref told Russia´s TV Rossiya 24 at the end of December 2015.
Swedish accident investigators have recovered the two flight recorders from the West Atlantic Bombardier CRJ200 freighter that crashed in Sweden near the Norwegian border in the early hours of Jan. 8, killing the two crew members.
Air France-KLM is now estimating the Nov. 13, 2015 terrorist attacks in Paris cost it €120 million ($131 million) in total lost revenues, after incurring another €70 million hit in December 2015.
Chinese firm Bohai Leasing has completed its $7.6 billion acquisition of Irish lessor Avolon, ranking its parent company HNA Group as the world’s fourth largest lessor by asset value.
Malaysia Airlines Berhad (MAB) has confirmed the suspension of its Paris and Amsterdam routes will allow it to retire its remaining Boeing 777-200ERs, and that many of the pilots from this fleet will also be leaving the airline.
Ireland-based low-cost carrier (LCC) Ryanair said it transported 101.4 million passengers in 2015, becoming “the first airline to reach this international traffic landmark.”
Kazakhstan authorities have postponed a mandatory requirement for domestic carriers to gain IATA Operational Safety Audit (IOSA) certification by Jan. 1, 2016, for local carriers operating domestic flights.
A West Atlantic Bombardier CRJ200 converted freighter crashed in Sweden near the Norwegian border after disappearing from radar during a mail transport flight.
Dubai-based Emirates Airline will add a second daily Airbus A380 flight from Los Angeles next summer, timing the new departure to connect with an early morning bank of departures from Dubai, many bound for India and Pakistan.
Bahrain has followed Saudi Arabia in halting all air services with Iran. The move follows the execution of a Shia cleric, Sheikh Nimr Al-Nimr in Saudia Arabia.
Airberlin, which is undergoing an extensive restructuring process, said capacity cuts toward the end of 2015 enabled it to increase capacity utilization by 0.9 percentage points to 79.9% year-over-year.
Low-cost carrier (LCC) Norwegian UK has applied to the US Department of Transportation (DOT) for exemption authority and a foreign air carrier permit (FACP) to allow services between Europe and the US, several media outlets have reported.
Turkish news agency Anadolu has reported that mortar rounds fired near Istanbul Sabiha Gökçen Airport on Dec. 23 led to the explosion that killed one cleaning staff member and injured another on board a Pegasus Airlines aircraft.
International traffic for Russian airlines was down 28.4% in November year-over-year (YOY) to 2.2 million passengers, according to Russia’s Federal Air Transport Agency, Rosaviatsia.
WestJet, a few months after announcing the launch of new London flights in May 2015, now says it will serve this new market from Calgary and Toronto year-round.
