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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
United Airlines and Lufthansa plan to enhance their cooperation to include freight operations by United Cargo and Lufthansa Cargo on routes between the US and Europe.
Ethiopian Airlines—which is one of the first Boeing 787-8 operators—has ordered two Boeing 787-9s for delivery in 2017, CEO Tewolde Gebremariam told ATW.
Lufthansa Group CEO Carsten Spohr told ATW that when the carrier’s internal problems (union negotiations) are resolved, it will be ready to consolidate its European airline business.
Air France-KLM’s traffic was significantly impacted by the Nov. 13 terrorist attacks in Paris, costing the group around €50 million ($55 million) in lost revenue.
UK-based Monarch Group, which includes leisure carrier Monarch Airlines, expects to report a strong turnaround when it announces full-year results in early 2016.
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.
Citing significant improvements in operational performance, United Airlines’ acting CEO said the company is successfully navigating the last few months’ rapid turnover in the chief executive’s office.
Malaysia Airlines Berhad (MAB) plans to pare down its operations at its hub at Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) as part of an extensive reorganization.
The world’s airlines are set to post a collective record net profit of $33 billion for 2015 and are forecast to post another record net profit of $36.3 billion in 2016, according to IATA.
