Airlines & Lessors

Data represent the total employment, full time plus part time, of all US airlines scheduled passenger, charter and cargo airlines, sorted by Airline Group. Changes in employee totals from the previous month, and the current month from a year ago, two years ago and five years ago are represented by percentage change.
Airlines & Lessors

Southwest Airlines plans to operate Boeing 737 flights starting in late 2015 from its new Houston Hobby Airport (HOU) international terminal to four destinations in Mexico as well as San Jose, Costa Rica and Belize City, Belize.
Airports & Networks

Airport freight traffic, year-to-date, organized by world regions. Year-over-year percentage changes provided by Airports Council International.
Airlines & Lessors

Airbus has confirmed Qatar Airways will take delivery of its first A350-900 XWB on Dec. 22, which was postponed from this weekend. Qatar is the launch customer for the all-new widebody.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Alan Dron
Three major European carriers have made representations to the European Commission (EC), opposing plans by Norwegian Air International (NAI) to start transatlantic operations.
Airports & Networks

By Alan Dron
Scandinavian Airlines (SAS) has secured a pre-delivery payment (PDP) financing facility covering a percentage of the pre-delivery payments that the carrier is making as part of its current aircraft order with Airbus.
Airlines & Lessors

Airport passenger traffic, year-to-date, organized by world region. Year-over-year percentage changes provided by Airports Council International.
Airlines & Lessors

By Mark Nensel
The on-time arrival performance for US domestic scheduled flights in October was 80%, down 1.1 point from September and 4.1 points from October 2013, according to the US Department of Transportation’s (DOT) Air Travel Consumer Report and the Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS).
Airlines & Lessors

United Airlines has filed an administrative complaint against the operator of Newark Liberty International Airport (EWR), accusing it of “imposing excessive, unreasonable and discriminatory charges” to generate surpluses it uses to fund non-airport expenses.
Airports & Networks

Singapore Airlines (SIA) has inked a codeshare agreement with Taipei-based EVA Airways on transpacific routes, extending its growing list of strategic codeshares.
Airports & Networks

Singapore-based long-haul, low-cost carrier (LCC) Scoot will push back its first Boeing 787-9 services a second time from the original planned inauguration last month.
Airports & Networks

By Polina Montag-Girmes
Russian airlines carried 86.9 million passengers from January-November, up 10.5% compared to the year-ago period. In November, the airlines carried 6.4 million, a 2.4% increase year-over-year.
Airlines & Lessors

By Alan Dron
South African Airways (SAA) and Etihad Airways and have announced plans to step up cooperation as part of their existing strategic partnership agreement.
Airports & Networks

By Linda Blachly
Republic Airways Holdings has reached an amendment to its capacity purchase agreement with Delta Air Lines to operate nine additional 69-seat Embraer E-170 aircraft.
Aircraft & Propulsion

Spring Airlines has received formal approval by the China Securities Regulatory Commission to hold an initial public offering (IPO) next year to fund its rapid fleet expansion.
Airlines & Lessors

By Adrian Schofield
All Nippon Airways’ (ANA) plans to continue its international network growth will be supported by the arrival of several more Boeing 787s next year, particularly the stretched -9 version.
Airports & Networks

Dublin-based ASL Aviation Group (ASL) has acquired Switzerland’s Farnair Group, increasing the number of affiliate airlines in the group to seven, with an operational fleet size of more than 100 aircraft.
Airlines & Lessors

All airlines from Libya have been added to the European Commission’s aviation safety list, also known as the airline blacklist, subject to an operating ban or operational restrictions within the European Union (EU).
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Adrian Schofield
Qantas is expanding its Japanese services with the launch of a new route, and promises to follow up with another addition in this market soon.
Airports & Networks

Vietnamese startup low-cost carrier (LCC) VietJet Air has taken its first steps toward international expansion with the first flights of its new Thai VietJet Air subsidiary.
Airports & Networks

People-Dec. 11, 2014
Airlines & Lessors

US airlines ranked by mishandled baggage reports per 1,000 passengers, lowest to highest; contrasted with reports from the previous month, and the year-ago month.
Airlines & Lessors

Monthly percentages of total flight cancellations, per reporting airline. Ordered from lowest percentage of total flight operations cancelled to highest.
Airlines & Lessors

US airlines on-time performance, ranked by percentage of flight arrivals on-time at all reporting airports at which these carriers operate, contrasted with the previous month's performance, and the year-ago month's performance.
Airlines & Lessors

By Karen Walker
Qatar Airways announced Wednesday that delivery of its first Airbus A350-900 XWB, originally planned for this weekend, has been postponed. No new date for the delivery or reasons for the delay were given; Qatar is the launch customer for the all-new widebody.
Aircraft & Propulsion