Swiss International Air Lines (SWISS) has committed to buy three additional Boeing 777-300ER aircraft, in an order valued at $990 million at list prices.
Scandinavian Airlines (SAS) estimates that a five-day walkout over plans to transfer regional jet cabin crew to newly acquired Cimber will set it back SEK50 million ($5.8 million).
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 and five years ago are represented by percentage change.
United Airlines will begin re-banking its Chicago O’Hare hub this month, and reports success with last year’s re-banking of its Denver and Houston hubs.
Scandinavian Airlines (SAS) has sold a pair of slots at capacity-constrained London Heathrow Airport to Turkish Airlines, marking its second slot disposal this year.
International Airlines Group—parent company of British Airways, Iberia and Vueling—has raised the prospect of future joint purchases of aircraft and powerplants with shareholder Qatar Airways.
The 10 publicly traded US passenger airlines collectively earned a net profit of $7.3 billion in 2014, down 37.1% year-over-year (YOY) from 2013’s collective net profit of $11.6 billion, according to the Airlines for America (A4A).
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.
Latvian carrier airBaltic will now take delivery of its first Bombardier CSeries CS300 in September 2016, rather than the final quarter of 2015 as originally planned.
Top 10 US Airports for TSA Gun Catches (loaded or unloaded firearms discovered at TSA checkpoints across the US). Year-to-Date (YTD) -- January through February 2015 -- 359 firearms have been discovered, a year-over-year (YOY) increase of 29.1%. 306 firearms, or 85.2%, were loaded. 120 US airports have reported gun catches YTD in 2015, a 17.6% YOY increase from 2014's comparative YTD total of 102 airports reporting gun catches.
Alaska Airlines has filed applications to begin two nonstop Boeing 737 services from Orange County, California, to Los Cabos and Puerto Vallarta, Mexico.
Indian low-cost carrier SpiceJet has used a $10 million injection by new investor Ajay Singh to buy a reprieve from aircraft lessors threatening to repossess their aircraft.
Philippine low-cost carrier Cebu Pacific Air is taking delivery of its sixth Airbus A330-300 this week, completing current orders for the widebody aircraft type it is using to expand its long-haul network.
Total TSA Gun Catches year-to-date (loaded or unloaded firearms, plus stun-guns, discovered at TSA checkpoints across the US). 140 firearms were discovered in January 2014. 118 firearms (84.3%) were loaded. 85 stun-guns have been caught as of Feb. 6, 2014.
Virgin Atlantic reported a £14.4 million ($21.7 million) profit before tax and exceptional items for 2014, a £65.4 million improvement from the £51 million pre-tax loss for 2013.
The pilots of the Delta Air Lines MD-88 that skidded off the runway at New York LaGuardia Airport (LGA) on March 5 “did not sense any wheel brake deceleration” upon landing and were “unable to prevent the airplane from drifting left,” according to the US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB).
