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

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

IATA Director General and CEO Tony Tyler is the recipient of the 2016 ATW Excellence in Leadership Award, it was announced Thursday.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Polina Montag-Girmes
The Moscow Arbitration Court has rejected a claim by Metrojet to recover $61.5 million in losses from Russian TUI subsidiary, TT-Travel, on Dec. 16.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

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

By Linda Blachly
Boeing and Alaska Airlines are partnering to power all flights by all airlines at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport (Sea-Tac) with sustainable aviation biofuel.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Polina Montag-Girmes
The Arbitration Court of Saint Petersburg and Leningrad region has put Transaero Airline under external supervision, in a decision published on the court’s website Dec. 16.
Airlines & Lessors

Malaysian flag carrier Malaysia Airlines Berhad (MAB) has been criticized by the Malaysian government for poor application of immigration procedures.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

Airberlin and Alitalia will extend their cooperation on several routes between Germany and Italy starting from summer schedule 2016 onward.
Airports & Networks

By Victoria Moores
The General Court of the European Union has annulled the European Commission’s cargo cartel ruling, canceling €790 million ($868 million) in fines levied against the industry.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

Emirates will expand its services in mainland China with 4X-weekly flights from Dubai to Yinchuan and Zhengzhou from May 3, 2016.
Airports & Networks

Luxembourg-based Cargolux and its pilot unions have reached an agreement on a new labor contract.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Victoria Moores
Newly manufactured aircraft must be trackable, even when severely damaged, and cockpit voice recorder (CVR) recordings will be extended to 25 hours under a new set of regulations adopted by the European Commission.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

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