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.
Dubai-based budget carrier flydubai will launch Dubai-Moscow service in September. It will become ninth airline`s destination in Russia. The airport in Moscow has not been specified yet, but the carrier will do that soon because ticket sales start in April.
Chinese carriers earned a collective net profit of CNY1.5 billion ($242 million) in February, up 32% over February 2013’s net income of CNY1.14 billion.
Even with 200 firm orders already in place for the E-Jet E2, Embraer expects a number of additional orders for the next-generation aircraft program to roll in this year, particularly from emerging markets.
Indonesia-based Lion Group has signed a training services agreement with Airbus that will see the manufacturer develop training programs that help move the groups’ airlines towards EASA regulatory compliance.
Russia’s and Tunisia’s aviation authorities have agreed to sign a new air service agreement, but it will not change the current situation regarding flights from Moscow and Saint-Petersburg.
It is rare for Airbus and Boeing to speak in unison, but during a panel discussion at the ISTAT 2014 Americas conference in San Diego, Airbus SVP-leasing markets Andrew Shankland and Boeing VP-marketing Randy Tinseth both identified improvements in 2014 in world GDP, passenger traffic, cargo traffic and airline profitability as main drivers for a boom market for new aircraft deliveries.
SAS Group has reported a net loss of SEK112 million ($17.5 million) for the quarter November 2013 to January 2014, marking a significant improvement from the SEK588 million net loss recorded for the same period in the previous year.
International Airlines Group (IAG) has seen a slight improvement in its freight volumes, although it is retaining a weak cargo outlook for 2014-15. “There is maybe some volume recovery, signaling the end of the cargo downturn, but it is too early to ring any bells,” IAG CFO Enrique Dupuy said at the release of IAG’s full-year results.
Full-time Equivalent (FTE) Employee calculations count two part-time employees as one full-time employee. * Formerly Pinnacle Airlines. Source: US Department of Transportation Bureau of Transportation Statistics and ATW Research.
The ACARS reporting system on the missing Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 was taken off air prior to the pilots’ last radio contact with Malaysian ATC, Malaysian defense and transport minister Hishammuddin Hussein said.
The huge fleets of airliners on order by the Arabian Gulf’s “Big Three” carriers risk spending more time on the ground than in the air if the growing problem of the region’s restricted airspace is not resolved, according to the head of the UK’s air traffic management provider.
Malaysia’s Prime Minister, Najib Razak, has confirmed that the Malaysian Airlines Boeing 777-200 operating flight MH370 had its tracking transponders turned off in "what looked like a deliberate action from somebody on board the aircraft."
