Airlines & Lessors

Lufthansa management has invited all three unions representing its staff to a roundtable discussion Dec. 2 to talk about retirement and pension schemes.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Alan Dron
UK long-haul specialist Virgin Atlantic has set up a new subsidiary to operate services to the Caribbean.
Airports & Networks

By Polina Montag-Girmes
Aeroflot subsidiary Rossiya Airlines has appointed Aeroflot deputy CEO Dmitry Saprykin as its new CEO.
Airlines & Lessors

By Victoria Moores
The European Commission has given the go-ahead for Hainan Airlines’ parent HNA Group to acquire 100% of European ground handling company Swissport.
Airlines & Lessors

By Victoria Moores
EasyJet CEO Carolyn McCall has acknowledged an approach from Lufthansa about a potential partnership, which she believes will be one of many.
Airlines & Lessors

Ranked by involuntary denied-boardings per 10,000 passengers, lowest to highest. Source: US DOT Aviation Consumer Protection Division Air Travel Consumer Report.
Airlines & Lessors

Data represents the total employment, full time plus part time, of all US scheduled passenger, charter and cargo airlines, sorted by Airline Group. Changes in employee totals from the previous month, and the current month from a year ago, two years ago, five years ago and a decade ago are represented by percentage change.
Airlines & Lessors

By Linda Blachly
Air Canada has announced new nonstop services between 12 US cities and its four key Canadian hubs beginning in the summer of 2016.
Airports & Networks

Eastern European low-cost carrier Wizz Air has renewed two eight-year MRO contracts with Lufthansa Technik Maintenance International (LTMI) and Lufthansa Technik Budapest (LTB) for line maintenance services on its fleets based in Romania, Slovakia and Hungary.
Maintenance & Training

Turkish low-cost carrier (LCC) Pegasus Airlines has posted passenger numbers for the first nine months of 2015 of 16.8 million, up 12.1% year-over-year.
Airlines & Lessors

Four years after its first flight to Hawaii, Allegiant Air will end its costly experiment, saying it will pull out of Honolulu in August 2016 and retire all of its Boeing 757s by 2017.
Airports & Networks

US airlines ranked by mishandled baggage reports per 1,000 passengers, lowest to highest; contrasted with reports from the previous month, and the year-ago month.
Airlines & Lessors

US Airlines tarmac delays of two hours or longer, ranked by percentage-delayed of the total number of regularly scheduled flights, lowest-to highest.
Airlines & Lessors

Airberlin, which is undergoing an extensive restructuring process, will cut all domestic routes from its Palma de Mallorca hub as well as from Ibiza to the Spanish mainland and to Portugal, a spokesperson confirmed to ATW.
Airports & Networks

By Polina Montag-Girmes
Moscow-based Interstate Aviation Committee (IAC) has blamed Air Samara pilots for the hard landing accident of a Beechcraft B300 on Nov. 25, 2014.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

The latest airport passenger traffic and aircraft movements for 232 airports worldwide - current through Nov. 19, 2015 - presented in monthly and year-to-date figures.
Airlines & Lessors

By Linda Blachly
SkyTeam alliance has appointed Perry Cantarutti as CEO, succeeding the retiring Leo van Wijk.
Airlines & Lessors

Delta Air Lines has expressed its intention to increase its holding in Grupo Aeromexico to as much as 49%.
Airlines & Lessors

By Alan Dron
Finland’s Competition and Consumer Authority has given final approval to a deal allowing Finnair to transfer 60% of its shares in Nordic Regional Airlines (Norra) to StaffPoint Holding and Kilco.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

Southeast Asian regional carriers are increasingly choosing to implement inflight tracking systems following the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines MH370 in March 2014.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Mark Nensel
Panama City-registered Avianca Holdings posted a 2015 third-quarter net profit of $102.1 million, more than tripling its $33.2 million net profit in 3Q 2014.
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

This table shows the current U.S. Gulf Coast Kerosene-Type Jet Fuel Spot Price, showing the latest figures for the current week, with comparisons to two weeks prior, one month prior, three months prior, six months prior and the current week during each year of the past decade. Figures are released every two weeks by the US Energy Information Administration.
Airlines & Lessors

Virgin America will add San Francisco-Denver service in March, a move that will give the low-cost carrier (LCC) service to each of the 10 most-popular destinations from San Francisco, as measured by daily passengers each way.
Airports & Networks

American Airlines will switch the way members of its AAdvantage loyalty program earn rewards from the number of miles flown to the amount spent for a ticket.
Safety, Ops & Regulation