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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

Quarterly financial results from 72 air carriers worldwide, highlighting operating revenues, operating expenses, operating profits/losses and net income/losses for the first quarter of 2014, generally defined as January 1, 2014 through March 31, 2014.
Airlines & Lessors

Turkish Airlines will launch services to Algeria July 31 on the 2X-weekly Istanbul-Tlemcen-Batna-Istanbul route.
Airports & Networks

By Linda Blachly
Air Canada has launched service between Toronto and Tokyo-Haneda Airport. The year-round service is the only nonstop flight between the two cities.
Airports & Networks

Turkish Airlines has opened a new, state-of-the-art MRO facility, HABOM, at Istanbul Sabiha Gökçen International Airport. HABOM represents an investment of about $550 million by Turkish Airlines subsidiary Turkish Technic.
Maintenance & Training

By Alan Dron
Italian carrier Livingston has staved off an attempt by ENAC, the country’s civil aviation regulator, to suspend its operating licence. Privately-owned Livingston operates three Airbus A320s on scheduled and charter services from its base at Milan Malpensa.
Airlines & Lessors

Two Southwest Airlines Boeing 737-700s departed Baltimore/Washington International Airport (BWI) Tuesday morning bound for the Caribbean, marking the first international flights in the 44-year history of the Dallas-based carrier.
Airports & Networks

Korean Air has introduced the ninth Airbus A380 to its fleet, underscoring its upmarket approach in using Airbus’s largest passenger aircraft.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Linda Blachly
Bombardier has received a firm order for 16 CRJ900 NextGen regional jets, plus eight options, from an unidentified customer.
Aircraft & Propulsion

Lufthansa has taken delivery of its 14th Boeing 747-8I as the US manufacturer delivered its 1,500th 747—its first widebody aircraft in history to reach the milestone—on Saturday at Paine Field in Everett, Washington state.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Victoria Moores
African low-cost carrier FastJet has reported a full-year net loss of $80.9 million, deepened from a $56 million net loss in the prior 18 months.
Airlines & Lessors

By Alan Dron
Dublin-based Aer Lingus has “reluctantly” agreed in principle to proposals solving a long-running pension dispute that will cost it a further €50 million ($68 million).
Safety, Ops & Regulation

Hainan Airlines is expected to inject CNY980 million ($159.2 million) into subsidiary Tianjin Airlines in an effort to increase Tianjin’s competitiveness.
Airlines & Lessors

By Polina Montag-Girmes
Aeroflot will allocate RUB2.77 billion ($82 million)—25% of the company’s net profit—to dividends for 2013.
Airlines & Lessors

By Linda Blachly
Alaska Air Group subsidiary Horizon Air’s aircraft technicians and fleet service agents have ratified a new six-year contract, which includes bonus, annual wage increases and contract language enhancements.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

Boeing has delivered its 1,500th 747—a 747-8 Intercontinental—to Lufthansa.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Victoria Moores
Air Astana CEO Peter Foster is in talks to defer the carrier’s Boeing 787 order, but is planning to commit to Embraer E2s at the Farnborough Airshow ahead of finalizing a lease for around 11 Airbus A321neos this fall.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Victoria Moores
Air Astana CEO Peter Foster claims Boeing’s plans to launch a revamped 757 in the mid-2020s are advancing and has said he is “hugely interested” in the project.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Alan Dron
Kenya Airways more than halved its losses for the financial year ended March 31, compared to the preceding 12 months.
Airlines & Lessors

US President Barack Obama will nominate Christopher Hart to be chairman of the US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB).
Airlines & Lessors

Air China and Cathay Pacific Airways are expected to increase capital contributions to their cargo joint venture (JV) Air China Cargo.
Airlines & Lessors

By Linda Blachly
FAA has upgraded airlines in the Republic of Serbia to a Category 1 rating, as it now complies with international safety standards set by ICAO.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Polina Montag-Girmes
Belavia Belarusian Airlines has ordered three Boeing 737-800s, in a deal valued $272 million at current list prices.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Karen Walker
The new search area for the missing Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777-200ER that vanished in March has been announced and Australian officials have said the aircraft was “highly likely” to have been on autopilot before it crashed in the southern Indian Ocean.
Safety, Ops & Regulation