Airlines & Lessors

By Victoria Moores
Slovenian carrier Adria Airways has detailed plans to hit 2 million passengers and a €220 million ($295 million) turnover by 2020, supported by a fleet of 16 aircraft.
Airlines & Lessors

By Victoria Moores
Kazakhstan-based Air Astana is considering using its new Boeing 787s to launch flights to the US East Coast, and is eyeing potential codeshare partnerships to support the service.
Airports & Networks

Finnair will become the first carrier in Europe to operate the Airbus A350-900 when it takes delivery of the first of the type in 2015.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Mark Nensel
Santiago-based LATAM Airlines Group reported a second-quarter net loss of $58.9 million, narrowed from a net loss of $329.8 million in the year-ago quarter.
Airlines & Lessors

Virgin America flight attendants have voted in favor of union representation with the Transport Workers of America (TWU).
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Victoria Moores
Air Malta has become one of the latest carriers to transition to a European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) air operator’s certificate (AOC).
Airlines & Lessors

Cathay Pacific Airways has reported a first-half net profit of HK$347 million ($45 million), up dramatically from a net income of HK$24 million in the year-ago period.
Airlines & Lessors

By Victoria Moores
Air Malta has appointed tourism specialist Joseph Galea as deputy CCO, with promotion to CCO planned in three years.
Airlines & Lessors

Southwest Airlines has launched daily Orange County/Santa Ana-San Jose del Cabo/Los Cabos, Mexico, and Cancun-Atlanta and -Baltimore/Washington service.
Airports & Networks

U.S. Gulf Coast Kerosene-Type Jet Fuel Spot Price, showing the current week and comparisons to the same week for each year of the past decade. Figures are released every two weeks by the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
Airlines & Lessors

Malaysia Airlines (MAS) CCO Hugh Dunleavy underlined the need for the industry to improve information sharing about where it is safe to fly and where it isn’t.
Airlines & Lessors

Even as JetBlue Airways expands into the Caribbean and Latin America—and develops focus cities along the US East Coast—it continues thinking of itself as a point-to-point low-cost carrier, CEO Dave Barger said.
Airlines & Lessors

By Alan Dron
The full-service airline planned by India’s Tata Group and Singapore Airlines (SIA) will be named Vistara, the companies announced Tuesday.
Airlines & Lessors

By Victoria Moores
South African startup FlySafair is planning to launch services Oct. 16, a year later than planned, after its rivals blocked its 2013 launch at the last minute on ownership grounds.
Airlines & Lessors

By Mark Nensel
Virgin America reported a $37 million net profit for the second-quarter, quadrupling the airline’s $8.9 million net income recorded in the year-ago June quarter.
Airlines & Lessors

By Alan Dron
All IrAn-140s have been grounded following the crash of a Sepahan Airlines aircraft on Sunday in Tehran that killed at least 39 people, according to Head of Civil Aviation Organization of Iran Alireza Jahangirian.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

Xi’an-based Joy Air plans to transform into a low-cost carrier (LCC) in an effort to tap the growing domestic low-cost market.
Airlines & Lessors

Cathay Pacific Airways has made a strategic equity investment in California-based sustainable biofuel developer Fulcrum BioEnergy as part of the airline’s biofuel strategy and to help it achieve a target of carbon-neutral growth from 2020.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

All Nippon Airways parent ANA Holdings will open a new pilot training facility in Thailand in September.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

Chile-based LAN Airlines inaugurated its daily Boeing 787 Santiago-Miami service Aug. 9. The 787s will replace some Boeing 767s on this route.
Airports & Networks

By Mark Nensel
US passenger airlines canceled 3.1% of their scheduled flights in the first half—89,627 in all—the largest percentage for the January-June period in 14 years, according to the US Department of Transportation’s (DOT) Air Travel Consumer Report and the Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS).
Airlines & Lessors

Airline News
Airlines & Lessors

US Airline Fuel Cost and Consumption figures, organized by domestic, international and system totals, contrasted with figures from the previous month, a year ago, two years ago and five years ago.
Airlines & Lessors

The Competition Commission of Singapore (CCS) has granted anti-trust immunity (ATI) to the alliance agreed between Singapore-based budget carriers Scoot and Tigerair Singapore last December.
Airlines & Lessors

By Alan Dron
Abu Dhabi-based Etihad Airways and Middle Eastern carrier Oman Air are avoiding Iraqi airspace as a result of the growing deterioration of the security situation in the country.
Airports & Networks