Dubai International Airport has recorded its 18th consecutive month of handling more than five million passengers despite the refurbishment of two runways, which resulted in a 26% reduction in flights during May and June this year.
Air traffic in European airspace in July grew 2% compared to the same month last year, making it the highest July traffic level for five years, according to Eurocontrol’s Network Manager (NM).
Aviation Corp. of China (AVIC) subsidiary Joy Air has launched Cambodia Bayon Airlines to tap the fast-growing Cambodian market and help boost the sale of its regional MA60 turboprops.
The US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has revoked the “party status agreement” of the Independent Pilots Association (IPA) and UPS Airlines from its ongoing investigation of a UPS Airbus A300-600 freighter that crashed on approach to Birmingham, Alabama, on Aug. 14, 2013.
Switzerland’s Federal Office of Civil Aviation (FOCA) has given regional carrier Darwin Airline and Etihad Airways until Sept. 30 to satisfy the agency that the smaller carrier effectively remains under the control of Swiss or European Union citizens.
In an attempt to ensure United Airlines and Southwest Airlines eventually can fly the same routes, the City of Houston has asked the US government to seek a new bilateral agreement with Mexico by the end of 2014.
Finnair CEO Pekka Vauramo has hinted he is on the verge of announcing aircraft connectivity plans, which could include a fleet-wide rollout of passenger Wi-Fi.
Lufthansa Group subsidiary Austrian Airlines CCO Karsten Benz will resign Oct. 1 to take over the newly created position of Group Infrastructure Officer, based in Frankfurt.
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House Financial Services Committee chairman Jeb Hensarling (R-Texas) is reviewing another letter from Delta Air Lines calling for reforming the Export-Import Bank of the US (Ex-Im).
Turkish Airlines should carry 120 million passengers and operate more than 450 aircraft by 2023, CEO Temel Kotil told ATW in Istanbul in an exclusive interview on the carrier’s future fleet developments.
Lufthansa is in talks with Turkish Airlines about operating its joint venture SunExpress as a low-cost carrier (LCC) on long-haul routes, chairman Carsten Spohr told journalists recently, but so far have not reached an agreement.
Baltic flag carrier Estonian Air reported a first-half net loss of €5 million ($6.65 million), narrowed from a net loss of €6.1 million reported for the same period last year.
Budget carrier Norwegian has opened a new long-haul base at London Gatwick Airport, supporting its Boeing 787 routes to Los Angeles, New York and Fort Lauderdale.
Airlines for America (A4A) said that, although extreme weather in the first quarter of this year almost derailed financial results, the airline industry overall reported a profit in the first half of 2014.
The Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA) said the bank should get out of the business of widebody aircraft financing, taking a different stance from others that are calling for the reform of the Export-Import Bank of the US (Ex-Im).
