Aeroflot low-cost subsidiary (LCC) Pobeda Airline, which carried its two-millionth passenger on Sept. 10, predicts it will carry more than 3 million passengers in 2015. Pobeda, which began operations Dec. 1, 2014, carried its millionth passenger on June 3.
African carriers are not benefitting from the decline in oil prices, Ethiopian Airlines CEO Tewolde Gebremariam told delegates at World Routes 2015 in Durban.
Southwest Airlines pilots, represented by the Southwest Airlines Pilots’ Association (SWAPA), have reached a new tentative agreement with the Dallas-based carrier.
Estonia is ready to create a new airline should the European Union rule its existing flag carrier, Estonian Air, illegally received €40.7 million ($46 million) of state aid in 2013.
Etihad Airways and its equity partner airlines have raised an additional $200 million following a surge in demand from international financial institutions, bringing the total funds raised to $700 million.
Year-over-year changes at US airlines with over 1000 Full-time Equivalent (FTE) employees, ranked by increase/decrease in employees. FTE calculations count two part-time employees as one full-time employee.
Indonesia’s aviation sector is ramping up protests over the country’s fuel supply monopoly, claiming surcharges of up to 20% above international rates for jet fuel.
The rate of change in scheduled passenger airline full-time equivalent employment by airline group, displayed as year-over-year percentage growth or losses. Differential changes for each of the last 13 months are shown.
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.
