Airlines & Lessors

An Antonov 140 passenger aircraft, operated by Sepahan Airlines, crashed shortly after takeoff Sunday morning from Iran’s Tehran Mehrabad Airport on a flight to Tabas in Eastern Iran, according to FARS news agency (FNA).

Air accident investigators probing the crash of a Boeing MD-83 operating for Air Algerie have revealed the aircraft’s cockpit voice recorder (CVR) was potentially broken before the accident.

Ukraine International Airlines (UIA) has been forced to reroute flights following Russia’s decision last week to ban Ukrainian flights over its territory.

The Lufthansa Group will continue to suspend flights to Erbil in the Kurdish region of Iraq until further notice, following a reassessment of the security situation in Iraq.

Former airberlin CCO Paul Gregorowitsch has been appointed as the new CEO of Oman Air, the Arab carrier has announced

Low-cost carrier (LCC) Air Arabia has posted a sharply improved second-quarter performance, which exceeded analysts’ expectations.

Ranked by involuntary denied-boardings per 10,000 passengers, lowest to highest. Source: US DOT Aviation Consumer Protection Division, Air Travel Consumer Report and ATW Research.

Air France announced that it is operating its Airbus A380 on the Paris Charles de Gaulle-Miami route starting from Dec. 1 until March 28, 2015.


Briefs from the August 11, 2014 issue of ATW's Skypaths

US Airlines ranked by complaints per 100,000 passengers, lowest to highest; contrasted with complaint rankings from the previous month, and the year-ago month.

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.

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

The long-mooted deal between Etihad Airways and Italian flag-carrier Alitalia finally came to fruition Friday in a complex transaction worth €1.75 billion ($2.35 billion).

Malaysian sovereign wealth fund Khazanah Nasional Berhad, which owns 69.4% of Malaysia Airlines System (MAS), has tabled a plan to buy out the airline’s remaining shareholders at 27 sen ($0.08) per share to take total ownership.

FAA on Friday issued a new notice to airmen (NOTAM) restricting all US air carriers and commercial operators from flying in the airspace above Iraq.

Alitalia’s route network plans show the Italian carrier being pulled into orbit around the fast-growing, Abu Dhabi-based Etihad Airways, following the closing of a long-awaited major investment deal.

Delta Air Lines refutes Boeing’s claims that export credit financing from the Export-Import Bank of the US (Ex-Im) does not harm US carriers and calls for reform of the institution when Congress debates its reauthorization this fall.

German investor Intro Aviation—which acquired Irish regional CityJet and its subsidiary Belgium-based VLM in April—is in final talks with aircraft manufacturers to replace CityJet’s Avro RJ85 fleet.

Florida-based Spirit Airlines and its flight attendants, represented by the Association of Flight Attendants, have reached a tentative agreement on a five-year contract.

Airbus and Boeing commercial aircraft deliveries year-to-date, sorted by most-recent delivery date.

Gross Orders year-to-date, sorted by most-recent date of order placement with manufacturer. Sources: Airbus, Boeing, ATW Research

Air Canada reported a C$223 million ($203.6 million) second-quarter net profit, reversed from a net loss of C$23 million in the year-ago quarter, and a loss of C$341 million in the first quarter of 2014.

Air China plans to spend CNY360 million ($58.4 million) to raise pilot salaries despite its continuous profit decline.

Russia has banned flights by Ukrainian airlines over its territory.

The Croatian government is moving ahead with a new drive to find a strategic partner for its national carrier, Croatia Airlines, targeting the first half of 2015 as the timetable for discussions with potential suitors.