Lufthansa Technik will be equipping the 100th aircraft of the Lufthansa Airbus A320 family fleet with sound-reducing vortex generators in the next few weeks.
Lufthansa said its 33 very large aircraft (VLA)—the Airbus A380 and Boeing-747-8I—is a good number for the company but does not expect to add more, Lufthansa Group chairman & CEO Carsten Spohr told ATW in Warsaw.
As of July 1, 2015, average List Prices for Airbus and Boeing commercial aircraft; with passenger seating capacity, cargo tonnage capacity and aircraft flight range.
United Airlines remains hopeful it will reach a tentative agreement with the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA (AFA) by July 23, or “relatively soon after,” an airline executive told employees recently.
German leisure carrier Condor will base one Boeing 767-300ER in Munich and will add five new long-haul destinations from Munich during the summer season.
Singapore flag carrier Singapore Airlines (SIA) plans to participate in a $20 million government-led initiative to promote inbound travel to Singapore.
Irish low-cost carrier Ryanair will base a single aircraft in Gothenburg from September, which it will use to launch additional frequencies to London Stansted.
Spanish global distribution system (GDS) provider Amadeus has reached an agreement to acquire US-based Navitaire—which specializes in the ticket reservation sector through its Open Skies and New Skies platforms—for $830 million.
[UPDATED] Major US airlines have been asked by the US Department of Justice (DOJ) to provide information on communications they’ve had with one another, shareholders and financial analysts regarding capacity planning.
Taipei-based China Airlines could see an additional 500,000 passengers on the cross-strait routes between China and Taiwan if the transfer ban on Chinese layovers in Taiwan is lifted this year, chairman Huang-Hsiang Sun told ATW in Germany.
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.
Civil wars spread in the MENA region, periodically rendering the airspace of those nations unusable by airlines, while the running story in the air transport world was the increasingly acrimonious accusations by US and European carriers against the Gulf’s largest carriers.
European airlines continued to battle their demons in 2014-15, but the greatest shock of the year was the loss of a Germanwings Airbus A320 March 24, in which 150 people died, including the German co-pilot who appears to have deliberately crashed the aircraft in the French Alps.
Airlines in the Asia-Pacific region are seeing a definite financial improvement this year over 2014, but it’s still tough going despite the region’s continued traffic growth.
