Airlines & Lessors

Monthly percentages of total flight cancellations, per reporting airline. Ordered from lowest percentage of total flight operations canceled to highest.
Airlines & Lessors

US Airlines ranked by complaints per 100,000 passengers, lowest to highest; contrasted with complaint rankings from the previous month, and the year-ago month.
Airlines & Lessors

SkyTeam alliance partners Delta Air Lines and KLM Royal Dutch Airlines are launching a new codeshare program with Jet Airways, the Indian airline that is 24% owned by Gulf carrier Etihad Airways.
Airports & Networks

São Paulo-based low-cost-carrier GOL plans to finish outfitting its first aircraft with Wi-Fi in the first half of 2016.
Interiors & Connectivity

SAS Scandinavian Airlines must strengthen its business model to better position itself for possible consolidation, president and CEO Rickard Gustafson told ATW.
Airlines & Lessors

Monthly percentages of total flight cancellations, per reporting airline. Ordered from lowest percentage of total flight operations canceled to highest.
Airlines & Lessors

Italy’s Del Vecchio family business Delfin SARL has purchased the 13% stake in Luxair, which the Luxembourg government had acquired in November from Lufthansa.
Airlines & Lessors

By Linda Blachly
GE Capital Aviation Services (GECAS) has signed an agreement with Virgin America to lease 10 new Airbus A321neos.
Airlines & Lessors

China Postal Airlines (CPA) has ordered 10 Boeing 737-800NG freighters to extend its fleet of express air cargo aircraft.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Victoria Moores
Israeli flag carrier El Al is to take a pair of Boeing 787-9s from Air Lease as a replacement for some of its older 747s.
Airlines & Lessors

The latest airport passenger traffic and aircraft movements for 208 airports worldwide - current through Dec. 14, 2015 - presented in monthly and year-to-date figures.
Airlines & Lessors

Egyptian investigators for the Metrojet Airbus A321 crash say it has not received “information indicating unlawful interference” or a “terrorist act” in the Oct. 31 crash, contradicting statements made by Russia’s Federal Security Police in mid-November that “a self-made explosive device equivalent of up to 1 kg of TNT” had been set off on board.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Victoria Moores
International Airlines Group (IAG) CEO Willie Walsh is interested in strengthening relations with Latin America’s LATAM Airlines Group, hinting at a potential joint venture (JV) between the oneworld partners.
Airlines & Lessors

Malaysia and Hong Kong airports are seeing a slowdown in passenger numbers, reflecting a general easing across Asian economies.
Airports & Networks

US airlines on-time performance, ranked by percentage of flight arrivals on-time at all reporting airports at which these carriers operate, contrasted with the previous month's performance, and the year-ago month's performance.
Airlines & Lessors

By Alan Dron
Young Egyptian charter operator FlyEgypt plans to start offering scheduled services within the next year.
Airports & Networks

HNA Group subsidiary Yangtze River Airlines plans to launch passenger service on Dec. 15 with twice-daily Boeing 737 flights on three routes from Shanghai to Sanya, Guiyang and Zhuhai, according to president Yang Zhihua.
Airports & Networks

American Airlines is sticking to its strategy of not hedging fuel costs, a decision it says has saved $673 million this year.
Airlines & Lessors

By Victoria Moores
Braathens Aviation has firmed-up four ATR 72-600 options from an order originally placed at the June 2015 Paris Air Show.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Alan Dron
Icelandic ACMI specialist Air Atlanta has acquired two Boeing 747-400s from Air France, which is in the final stages of retiring the type after four decades of service.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Polina Montag-Girmes
Russia’s Kaluga International Airport will now be able to handle scheduled flights from Germany after authorities agreed to replace Perm with Kaluga as a Russian destination.
Airports & Networks

By Alan Dron
Low-cost carrier Norwegian has retired its final Boeing 737-300. Its single-aisle fleet is now comprised entirely of the newer -800 model.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Karen Walker
A number of fumes and small fire incidents involving lithium-battery-powered hoverboards loaded on to airliners has prompted IATA to develop industry guidelines for handling the new-fad gliding vehicles.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Alan Dron
Ireland-based low-cost carrier (LCC) Ryanair plans to substantially increase its presence in Romania, with the creation of up to five bases in the Eastern European nation over the next few years, according to CEO Michael O’Leary.
Airports & Networks

By Karen Walker
IATA is confident that a global aviation emissions agreement will be reached in 2016 regardless of United Nations climate talks in Paris, an IATA environment director said.
Safety, Ops & Regulation