Vietnamese low-cost carrier (LCC) Vietjet Air is looking to introduce a raft of codeshares with “major airlines” next year, MD Luu Duc Khanh said in an interview.
Belgian regional VLM Airlines, which is in the middle of a management buyout, is to launch the Sukhoi Superjet SSJ100LR in Europe after detailing plans to take up to 14 of the type.
Air France-KLM reported third-quarter net income of €100 million ($127.2 million), down 32.4% from a €148 million profit in the year-ago period, due to its pilot strike and overcapacity putting pressure on yields.
The search for signs of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 (MH370) is set to accelerate in the coming days, as a third vessel transitions from survey work to searching the vast seafloor area that has been mapped out and surveyed, the Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) said.
Indianapolis, Indiana-based Republic Airways Holdings—parent of Chautauqua Airlines, Republic Airlines and Shuttle America—reported third-quarter net income of $18.5 million, reversing a $13.8 million loss in the year-ago quarter.
Utah-based SkyWest Inc., parent of regional carriers SkyWest Airlines and ExpressJet Airlines, rebounded from a disappointing 2014 first half to post third-quarter net income of $41.3 million, up 56.4% from a net profit of $26.4 million in the September 2013 quarter.
Grupo Aeroméxico reported a MXP201 million ($14.8 million) net profit for the third quarter, a recovery from a net loss in the second quarter, but down 59.4% from net income of MXP495 million in the 2013 September quarter.
Air China reported net profit of CNY3.16 billion ($515 million) for the first nine months of the year, down 22% compared with net income of CNY4.06 billion in the year-ago period.
American Airlines is not moving to a revenue-based frequent flyer program when it merges its AAdvantage and US Airways Dividend Miles systems in the second quarter of next year, but the Dallas-based carrier is not ruling out such a change in the future.
United Airlines launched its Los Angeles to Melbourne route this week, believing local traffic in both cities can buoy the new service, SVP-worldwide sales Dave Hilfman said in an interview.
Iceland-based low-cost carrier WOW Air will launch 4X-weekly seasonal Reykjavik Keflavik-Baltimore Washington International Airport (BWI) Airbus A321 services from June 4, 2015.
Security regulators are not keeping pace with the needs of the air transport industry and are not ready for new challenges such as cyber attacks, according to the head of Lufthansa security.
Spirit Airlines posted third-quarter net income of $67 million, up 9.7% over a $61.1 million net profit in the prior-year period, and is confident it will lower unit costs in 2015 even as it grows capacity significantly.
Saudi hybrid carrier flynas has scrapped its entire portfolio of long-haul services and will revert to its core business of regional flights in the Middle East.
The Philippines-Japan market is becoming increasingly competitive, with the two major Philippine carriers both launching new routes to Japan from the Mactan-Cebu secondary gateway.
