Dubai-based low-cost carrier (LCC) flydubai is significantly expanding its Iranian network with services to five Iranian cities set to begin over the next month.
Swiss regional carrier Darwin Airline, which operates as Etihad Regional, has detailed its previously announced retrenchment, in light of increasing competitive pressures and continuing delays by the Swiss regulator in approving Etihad’s involvement in the company.
The AirAsia affiliate carriers that cut their networks last year to boost financial performance are seeing the strategy pay off with improving operational numbers.
Kuala Lumpur based long-haul low-cost carrier (LCC) AirAsia X has opened its sixth destination in China with a new 4X-weekly service to Chongqing, one of China’s top second-tier cities.
A group of lobbyists and a FedEx Express executive accused the three US major airlines of trying to roll back the clock on Open Skies policy and keep out international competition.
Virgin America earned net income of $60.1 million in 2014, a significant increase over a net profit of $10.1 million in 2013, marking the airline’s second straight year of profitability after five years of losses following its 2007 launch.
Russia’s Federal Air Transport Agency, Rosaviatsia, has canceled air operator’s certificates (AOCs) for regional Air Samara and Moscow-based cargo carrier KAPO Avia.
Calgary-based WestJet Airlines’ regional subsidiary WestJet Encore has received all required approvals to fly to the US, a move that should open new markets the carrier has been unable to serve, allowing it to more forcefully compete with Air Canada, company executives said.
Mexico City-based Grupo Aeromexico reported MXP783 million ($53 million) in consolidated net profit for 2014, down 27.5% from the airline’s 2013 net profit of MXP1.08 billion.
Singapore Airlines (SIA) is boosting its widebody fleet with new deliveries in the first quarter, although passenger demand has slipped back slightly at the start of 2015.
Alitalia, which recently became an Etihad Airways equity partner, will resume services to South Korea after a 20-year break and has detailed plans to serve two destinations in China.
Data represent the total employment, full time plus part time, of all US airlines 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.
South African Airways (SAA) has renegotiated lease re-extensions on three Airbus A340s and is working on similar deals for another five, which are expected to cut R262 million ($22.5 million) in annual costs.
