China’s Tibet Airlines is expected to launch Himalaya Airlines in conjunction with Nepal’s Himalaya Aviation Investment Co. and Nepal’s Yeti Air International.
Bombardier has replaced its head of marketing for commercial aircraft, including the slow-selling and still-grounded CSeries airliner, as it continues a corporate restructuring and downsizing.
Ryanair has hired John Hurley as chief technology officer as the Irish budget carrier continues with its senior management revamp and push to step up its digital game.
The latest round of route announcements by Japan’s major airlines includes the notable return of a domestic trunk service that was previously squeezed out by competition from high-speed rail.
Malaysia-based AirAsia X reported a second-quarter net loss of MYR128.9 million ($40.9 million), widened from the MYR32.3 million net loss reported for the year-ago period.
Finnair CEO Pekka Vauramo has shrugged off concerns raised by Flybe about the two airlines’ loss-making joint venture (JV), saying it is “business as usual” at Flybe Finland.
Las Vegas-based Allegiant Air will add five new routes this fall to Florida, continuing its strategy of connecting smaller US cities with popular vacation destinations.
Singapore-based lessor BOC Aviation has posted a $163 million net profit for the first six months of 2014 and is on track to hit a full-year delivery record.
Total combined international premium and economy passenger traffic grew 3.7% in the first half, identical to 2013’s first-half growth rate, according to IATA’s June Premium Traffic Monitor.
Norwegian Air International (NAI), the long-haul arm of low-cost carrier (LCC) Norwegian Air Shuttle, claimed European Commission support Tuesday in its efforts to gain US approval to fly between Europe and the US.
While Singapore-based low-cost carrier Scoot will use Boeing 787 deliveries to grow its fleet next year, the initial deliveries will be focused more on fleet replacement than expansion, CEO Campbell Wilson said.
Independent aviation safety body Flight Safety Foundation (FSF) is backing the use of deployable flight data recorders (FDRs), or triggered flight data transmission, as the search for Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 continues.
Lufthansa said it plans to start operations of a new long-haul low-cost carrier (LCC) for intercontinental and European services in fall 2015, most likely from Munich and Düsseldorf or Cologne.
Russia’s Ministry of Industry and Trade has offered to equip Red Wings Airlines with Tupolev Tu-204 aircraft to be used on flights to Crimea after Aeroflot’s new low-cost (LCC) subsidiary Dobrolet suspended flights Aug. 4 due to sanctions imposed by the European Union.
Rapidly growing Turkish low-cost carrier (LCC) Pegasus Airlines continued to slip into the red in the first half of 2014 compared to the year-ago period.
China’s Xiamen Airlines plans to launch Jiangxi Airlines in conjunction with the Jiangxi provincial government in June 2015 as it accelerates its domestic expansion pace.
Etihad Airways’ introduction of the Airbus A380 and Boeing 787 will mean major changes for its Australian network when the aircraft are delivered at the end of the year.
