China’s Spring Airlines has selected CFM International's CFM56-5B engine to power 30 Airbus A320ceo aircraft, in an order valued more than $620 million at current list prices.
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.
US lessor Air Lease Corp. (ALC) became the launch customer for the Airbus A330neo Monday, signing a memorandum of understanding for 25 -900 variants at a list price of $6.9 billion and saying the price of the re-engined widebody could not be ignored.
New Delhi-based Air India officially joined Star Alliance Friday, opening the world’s fifth-largest aviation market to the other 26 member airlines comprising the Star Alliance network.
Iberia is looking to cut another 1,581 jobs—on top of the 3,100 redundancies it is already rolling out—under a consultation that was formally launched Friday.
Norwegian Air International’s (NAI) plan to serve the US is facing fresh opposition from another airline union and eight members of the Georgia Congressional delegation.
A US Government Accountability Office (GAO) report this week on widebody aircraft financing from the Export-Import Bank of the US (Ex-Im) has renewed efforts by Delta Air Lines and the Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA) to urge Congress to reform the institution.
Singapore’s Changi Airport could become a casualty of Etihad Airways’ new long-haul fleet expansion when the airline cuts its Changi stopover on one of its Australian routes next year.
Air India chairman and MD Rohit Nandan announced Thursday that when the carrier is formally integrated into the Star Alliance network, “our entire European operations, Asian Operations, [and] Pacific operations shall be through the Dreamliner.”
Newly minted central Asian airline Air Kazakhstan will begin flying the first of 10 Bombardier Q400 NGs in March 2015, with a $230 million price tag on the aircraft/operations deal.
Delta Air Lines and Virgin Atlantic are eyeing technology-sharing opportunities as part of their joint venture, while Virgin’s SkyTeam plans continue to take a back seat.
Air Astana CEO Peter Foster believes his carrier could be ready for flotation within two to three years, generating extra capital for aircraft investment.
Hainan Airlines’ subsidiary Hong Kong Airlines has restarted its plan to launch an initial public offering (IPO) on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange to raise approximately $500 million for fleet expansion, an industry insider confirmed to ATW.
Etihad Airways has announced a series of new routes for 2015. It intends to start daily flights to Madrid and Edinburgh together with Kolkata and Entebbe.
United Airlines said its application for seasonal service to Mexico still will leave one available designation for another US carrier to serve the routes, thereby dismissing Southwest Airlines’ letter of support for United’s application.
