American Airlines (AA) chairman and CEO Doug Parker has chastised the US political system for treating the airline industry like a vice rather than a business that fuels the economy and warned that the fast growth of major Gulf carriers is an increasing threat to US carrier global competitiveness.
The CEOs of Aer Lingus and Aeroflot have warned of an impending “blood bath” in Europe, a point that was largely supported by fellow panelists from Norwegian and Irish low-cost carrier Ryanair.
The merger process of American Airlines and US Airways is going according to plan, but the major integration hurdles are still ahead, AA chairman and CEO Doug Parker said Thursday.
The Australian government has reintroduced a subsidy program for rural air services, although some airlines are criticizing the plan for not being adequately funded.
Vietnamese low-cost carrier (LCC) VietJet Air has flagged the next step in its expansion plans on the back of recent figures showing 182% increase in passenger numbers over the previous 12 months.
China Southern subsidiary Xiamen Airlines is launching a Beijing branch company and increasing capacity as it accelerates its expansion pace in the Beijing market.
[UPDATE] The Vereinigung Cockpit (VC) union has called off an eight-hour strike scheduled for Tuesday, after receiving a new offer from Lufthansa for transition payments for early retirees.
[UPDATE] Lufthansa said all 40 long-haul flights will depart from Frankfurt on Tuesday despite the eight-hour pilot strike called by the Vereinigung Cockpit (VC) union.
Frontier Airlines—which has moved to the ultra low-cost carrier (ULCC) business model—will not truly be able to compete with others in the category until it lowers costs, not including fuel, to six cents per available seat mile, chairman William Franke said in an interview.
WestJet will start charging a C$25 ($22.55) fee for a first checked bag for flights booked starting Sept. 15 for domestic Canadian or US transborder travel from Oct. 29.
China Southern Airlines will start 3X-weekly service from Wuhan to San Francisco, flying out of its base in Guangzhou, as it aims to explore international potential posed by China’s tier-two cities.
US passenger airlines canceled 1.6% of scheduled domestic flights in July—8,390 out 520,880 scheduled flights—according to the US Department of Transportation’s (DOT) Air Travel Consumer Report and the Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS).
Fastjet has applied for a Kenyan Air Service License (ASL), forming part of its four-year expansion strategy, as pressure begins to mount from its high-profile shareholder Stelios Haji-Ioannou.
Air France-KLM is unlikely to finalize the key target figures for its new Perform 2020 program until early 2015, according to group chairman and CEO Alexandre de Juniac.
Southwest Airlines’ eighth international destination will be San Jose, Costa Rica (SJO), to which the carrier will operate daily flights from Baltimore/Washington International Airport (BWI) from March 7, 2015, subject to government approval.
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.
