Ryanair’s shareholders have voted to approve the low cost carrier’s plan to order 100 737 MAXs, plus 100 options, valued at around $22 billion at list prices.
Full-time-equivalent (FTE) employment at US scheduled passenger airlines grew 1.1% year-over-year in September, to a total FTE count of 384,439 personnel, according to the US Department of Transportation’s Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS).
The African Airlines Association (AFRAA) has named Fatima Beyina-Moussa as its new president at the close of its 46th annual general meeting in Algiers.
LOT Polish Airlines, in the aftermath of a restructuring, has been banned by European Union regulators from growing capacity or adding routes until early 2016.
Finnair is to launch services to Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam, the Israeli city of Eilat, Lanzarote and Fuerteventura on the Canary Islands, as well as Madeira in Portugal, for winter 2015-2016.
SkyWest Inc., parent of SkyWest Airlines and ExpressJet Airlines, has confirmed its order for seven current generation Embraer E-175s, valued at $301 million, which it will deploy on behalf of Alaska Airlines.
American Airlines Group will next year start transferring at least 50 Embraer E-145s from its wholly owned regional subsidiary Envoy Air to other regional airlines, including moving at least 15 E-145s to Trans States Airlines.
Air France is in talks to upgrade its ATR fleet to the latest -600 variant and is looking to replace its Embraer ERJ-145s and Bombardier CRJ700s around 2020.
Middle Eastern carrier Oman Air is targeting profitability by the end of 2017, CEO Paul Gregorowitsch said at the Arab Air Carriers Organization AGM in Dubai.
Switzerland’s civil aviation authority is still not completely happy with Etihad Airways and its plans to take a minority stake in Swiss regional carrier Darwin Airline.
Austria-based airberlin subsidiary FlyNiki launched its first long-haul route with daily Vienna-Abu Dhabi Airbus A320 services Nov. 24, featuring 12 business- and 132 economy-class seats with Wi-Fi service.
Juneyao Airlines’ low-cost (LCC) subsidiary Jiuyuan Airlines has postponed its inaugural flight—from Guangzhou to Zhanjiang—to Dec. 2 following approval of its routes application.
For Star Alliance, the global alliance that started it all, there’s no standing still some 17 years after five founding members signed their game-changing agreement in Frankfurt. Today, Star encompasses 27 airlines serving 192 countries and 1,316 airports via 185,000 daily departures.
Top 25 US Airlines for the month ranked by Full-time Equivalent (FTE) employees. Full-time Equivalent (FTE) Employee calculations count two part-time employees as one full-time employee.
Sardinia-based Meridiana has named former Aer Lingus and Ukraine International Airlines executive Richard Creagh as its new group CEO, succeeding Roberto Scaramella who resigned on Nov. 18 for personal reasons.
Louis Chenevert, the architect of the biggest aerospace and defense (A&D) acquisition ever and a driving force behind Pratt & Whitney’s geared turbofan (GTF) engine, has stepped down as chairman and CEO of United Technologies Corp. (UTC).
