All Nippon Airways (ANA) expects to switch its international growth focus to Tokyo Narita International Airport in 2015 following a dramatic expansion at Haneda Airport this year.
Baltic flag carrier Estonian Air reported a net loss of €6.4 million ($8 million) for the nine months ended Sept. 30, deepened from a loss of €6 million in the year-ago period.
Chinese carriers reported a collective net profit of CNY1.9 billion ($309 million) in October, up 32% compared with the collective net income of CNY1.43 billion in the same period last year.
Changes in scheduled passenger airline full-time equivalent employment by airline group, displayed as percent changes from the previous year; differential changes for each of the last 13 months are shown.
Air Astana began daily Almaty-Dubai Airbus A320 service. Austrian Airlines began weekly Vienna-Mauritius Boeing 767 service. EasyJet has added 12X-weekly Munich-Milan service.
Advocates on both sides of the debate over Norwegian Air International (NAI) are making their voices heard in Washington DC this week, hoping to convince the US Department of Transportation (DOT) to either approve or disallow NAI from flying transatlantic flights to/from the US.
The head of the Association of Asia Pacific Airlines (AAPA) condemned the shooting down in July of a Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 as “a military failure,” and stressed that maintaining a robust, safe commercial aviation system requires the sharing of information of where and when it is safe to fly.
Cathay Pacific Airways doubts the low-cost, long-haul business model is sustainable over the long term and does not intend to change its full-service model to compete with the proliferation of LCCs in the Asian market.
EasyJet achieved a full-year average load factor of 90.6% for the year ended Sept. 30, but it plans to increase this still further in 2014-15 by driving up passenger numbers on off-peak flights.
Saudi Arabia hybrid carrier flynas has appointed a new CEO, just weeks after it announced it was pulling back from its ambitious plans for a network of long-haul flights.
Thai budget carrier Nok Air reported a third-quarter net loss of TBH353.3 million ($10.8 million), reversed from a net profit of THB244.6 million reported in the year-ago period.
Aer Lingus’ shareholders will decide whether to accept a critical pension deal during an extraordinary general meeting Dec. 10. Aer Lingus is seeking shareholder approval to plough €190.7 million ($238.3 million) into its pensions scheme to resolve a deficit which represents “a real and significant risk to the success of the company.”
A trio of European airlines has signed an agreement for a regular supply of biofuel at Oslo Airport, which will next year become the world’s first hub airport to receive regular deliveries of biofuel.
U.S. Gulf Coast Kerosene-Type Jet Fuel Spot Price, showing the current week and comparisons to two weeks ago, one month ago, three months ago, six months ago and the same week for each year of the past decade. Figures are released every two weeks by the US Energy Information Administration.
UK budget carrier easyJet reported a full-year net income of £450 million ($705 million), up 13% from a £398 million profit in the year-ago period, marking its fourth year of record profits.
Virgin Atlantic is looking to lease out two sets of Heathrow slots freed up by the demise of its UK short-haul arm Little Red, until it has the aircraft it needs to operate them itself.
Star Alliance member LOT Polish Airlines wants to consolidate the Central Europe aviation market as the state-owned carrier considers future projects following an increase in profits, CEO Sebastian Mikosz told ATW in Warsaw.
Russia’s Federal Air Transport Agency, Rosaviatsia, said the government has spent RUB3.5 billion ($74 million) for regional routes and Kaliningrad routes subsidy programs so far this year.
Utah-based SkyWest Inc., parent of regional carriers SkyWest Airlines and ExpressJet Airlines, plans to remove from service all Embraer EMB-120 Brasilia 30-seat turboprop aircraft operated by SkyWest Airlines by mid-2015, as it aims to improve overall efficiency and long-term profitability.
