Emirates Airline’s strategic cooperation agreement with Qantas is doing well despite fares in Australia being under pressure, Emirate CCO has told ATW.
More than 95% of Lufthansa pilots have voted in favor of going on strike, union Vereinigung Cockpit (VC), which represents about 5,400 Lufthansa pilots, announced Friday. The union is seeking better pay and working conditions for pilots at Lufthansa, Lufthansa Cargo and Germanwings.
This chart represents the most recent 13 months, displayed as percent changes from the previous year, for Scheduled Passenger Airline Full-time Equivalent Employees* by Airline Group. Source: US Dept. of Transportation Footnotes: * Full-time Equivalent Employee (FTE) calculations count two part-time employees as one full-time employee. ** Includes network, low-cost, regional and other carriers. Other carriers generally operate within specific niche markets, i.e. Hawaiian Airlines and Sun Country Airlines.
Australian authorities are intensifying their search efforts in the Indian Ocean southwest of Perth where satellite images showed some unidentified debris that might be connected to the missing Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777-200.
Irish regional carrier Aer Arann is to undergo a name change to reflect the identity of its controlling shareholder. The airline will lose the name it has operated under since its foundation in 1970 as a Britten-Norman BN-2 Islander operator on small islands off the west coast of Ireland and take the new corporate title Stobart Air, the airline announced Thursday.
While the rate of air travel growth in Asia may slow down from the extremely rapid rise of the last two decades, it will still outpace growth in other regions, according to Air Lease Corp. chairman and CEO Steven Udvar-Hazy.
Santiago-based LATAM Airlines Group has reported a 2013 net loss of $281.1 million, a $242 million improvement over 2012’s net loss of $523.1 million. LATAM’s 2013 revenue rose 0.3% to $13.3 billion as expenses fell 3.9% to $12.6 billion, producing an operating profit for the year of $643.9 million, more than seven times the operating profit of $91.4 million LATAM reported for 2012.
The hunt for Malaysia Airlines missing flight MH370 intensified in the southern Indian Ocean Thursday after Australian satellite images showed debris southwest of Perth that may “possibly be related to the search,” Malaysia’s top transportation minister confirmed.
UK chancellor of the exchequer George Osborne has announced plans to reform the country’s controversially high air passenger duty (APD) in his 2014 Budget.
Unable to secure preferred slots at London Gatwick Airport, Garuda Indonesia has postponed the relaunch of services between Jakarta and London until September, and will then operate the London sector as extension to its Amsterdam service.
South African carrier Comair has placed a firm order for eight Boeing 737 MAX 8s, valued at $830 million at list prices. The order, which was placed in December 2013 and logged to an unidentified customer, marks the first MAXs to be ordered by an African airline. Johannesburg-based Comair said the aircraft will be used for fleet renewal and expansion. Today it operates a fleet of 25 737s on flights for budget brand kulula and its British Airways franchise.
European airlines reacted with a combination of dismay and exasperation Wednesday following a European Parliament committee vote to ditch a compromise on the contentious Emissions Trading System (ETS).
US lessor CIT Group is pushing Airbus to make a decision “in the next six months” on whether to re-engine the A330 for a potential 2017 entry-into-service. During a briefing at the ISTAT 2014 Americas conference in San Diego, CIT Transportation and International Finance president Jeff Knittel said the A330 has “historically been the star of our fleet” but is now “at a crossroads … Airbus will need to make some decisions on where they take that aircraft.”
Japan Airlines (JAL) and Russia’s S7 Airlines have agreed to a codeshare that will see JAL add its code to S7 flights on 12 new destinations in Russia from March 19.
Mesa Air Group announced it will re-deploy its Hawaii-based aircraft and cease operations of its low-cost regional airline go! as of April 1. Go! has operated in Hawaii since June 2006.
South African carrier Comair has placed a firm order for eight Boeing 737 MAX 8s, valued at $830 million at list prices. The order, which was placed in December 2013 and logged to an unidentified customer, marks the first MAXs to be ordered by an African airline.
Spanish low-cost carrier Vueling is looking to develop a second hub at Rome Fiumicino Airport later this year, CEO Alex Cruz told ATW on the sidelines of the ITB tourism fair in Berlin.
The US Dept. of Transportation’s Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) reported that 743.1 million passengers were transported by US airlines in 2013, the highest annual total since 2008’s 743.3 million passengers.
