Eastern Air Lines Group, a Miami-based startup trying to revive the iconic airline brand, has ordered 20 Mitsubishi Aircraft Corp. MRJ90s with 20 options.
Airberlin has reached an agreement with Boeing to cancel orders for 15 787 and 18 737 aircraft, “at a current price of some $5 billion to be rescinded,” airberlin said in a statement.
Etihad Airways president and CEO James Hogan strongly believes oneworld partner Airberlin will be successfully restructured, but to do that it must become the “best in class.”
Vision Airlines’ revived low-cost carrier (LCC) PEOPLExpress—which began services in June—announced it is temporarily suspending service, effective immediately.
Air Malta has announced Philip Micallef has been appointed its new CEO, effective Oct. 13. He succeeds Louis Giordimaina, who was appointed in November 2013 to replace the outgoing CEO Peter Davies.
With negotiations continuing at Air France to end what is now an 11-day pilot strike, labor conflicts at several other European airlines appear to be getting worse.
Irish budget carrier Ryanair is expecting to hit the upper end of its €620-€650 million ($795-$834 million) full-year net profit guidance and has stepped up its full-year traffic forecast from 86 million to 87 million passengers.
As part of its drive to attract more business customers, Ryanair has inked a distribution agreement with Amadeus and will start listing its fares on the platform from Nov. 1.
July’s full-time-equivalent (FTE) employee count at US scheduled passenger airlines came to 386,243, up 1.3% from July 2013—the biggest year-over-year percentage jump since June 2012—according to the US Department of Transportation’s Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS).
Air France announced late Wednesday it will “immediately withdraw” the Transavia Europe project in a proposal to end the 10-day pilot strike, which is “heavily penalizing” the carrier, its staff and customers. In view of the concession, management has called on pilots to “return to work immediately.”
Air France expected to operate 46% of flights Wednesday and 47% of flights Thursday, as it comes under increased pressure to ditch its Transavia Europe plans.
The unions representing Monarch Airlines’ staff have agreed to major concessions on pay and terms and conditions, as part of the UK leisure carrier’s plan to evolve into a scheduled low-cost European airline.
LOT Polish Airlines is seeing increased reliability with its Boeing 787-8 fleet and is flying the aircraft an average of 19 hours per day—three more hours than it flew its 767-300s—in a mix of scheduled and charter service, CEO Sebastian Mikosz said in an interview at World Routes 2014.
Philippine Airlines (PAL) is the latest Southeast Asian airline to begin new services to Russia as the increasingly sanctioned country seeks alternative tourism destinations.
The recently approved alliance between Air New Zealand and Singapore Airlines will officially launch Jan. 6, 2015, marking the return of the New Zealand carrier to Singapore after an absence of almost eight years.
