News from Travel Technology Update: After years of wooing potential IT customers in North America, Amadeus finally gained a foothold on the continent with its new contract with Southwest Airlines.
Delta Air Lines (DL) anticipates its US northeast operations will easily take up all the fuel available from the oil refinery that the carrier is purchasing and that payoffs of the daring strategy will be almost immediate.
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After years of wooing potential IT customers in North America, Amadeus finally gained a foothold on the continent with its new contract with Southwest Airlines. The contract calls for Southwest to use the Amadeus Altéa Customer Management System to handle its international flying beginning in 2014. But in his first-quarter earnings call with analysts, Gary Kelly, the airline’s chief executive officer, said “it also sets the stage for us to move all of our reservations, the domestic reservations that is, to Amadeus if we choose to.
The Spanish government intervened last week to help resolve the increasingly bitter dispute between Iberia (IB) and its pilots, imposing a compulsory arbitration order on both parties.
Goodrich was selected by Southwest Airlines to supply wheels, carbon brakes, MRO services and comprehensive asset management covering its new fleet of Boeing 737-800 aircraft. Precision Conversions won a contract from SF Airlines to provide full 15-cargo position 757-200PCFs. The 757-200PCF modifications will take place at the Taikoo Aircraft Engineering Co. Ltd. (TAECO) maintenance facility in Xiamen.
Europe’s SESAR (Single European Sky ATM Research) Joint Undertaking has begun a study into the integration of Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) into non-segregated airspace in a SESAR air traffic management scenario.
Austrian Airlines (OS) has struck a tentative agreement with pilots and flight attendants that could head off OS plans to shift their contracts to subsidiary Tyrolean with less generous terms, according to an internal joint email from the OS management and union Betriebsrat Bord received by ATW.
International Lease Finance Corp. (ILFC) and its parent American International Group (AIG) have filed a civil lawsuit in a Los Angeles court against Air Lease Corp. (ALC) and its chairman and CEO, Steven Udvar-Hazy, as well as a number of other top ALC executives, seeking damages that it said may reach “several hundreds of millions” of dollars “or more.”
Boeing earned a net profit of $923 million in the first quarter, up 58% over $586 million in net income in the prior-year period, on a 30% jump in revenue to $19.38 billion.
IATA reported that international premium traffic for February continued its positive trend, up by 6.3% compared to the year-ago month, and up from a 2.9% climb in January.
Kuwaiti owned Q8Aviation has been voted Best Regional Marketer in Europe in the 2011 Armbrust Annual Survey, a highly respected independent survey which is unique in directly reflecting the views of airline customers on fuel operators' performance. In the 16 years of the awards, Q8Aviation has won this prestigious title seven times.
Goodrich signed a five-year nacelle services agreement with LOT Polish Airlines to support the carrier’s nacelles and thrust reversers for its fleet of CF34-10E-powered Embraer E-195 aircraft. Delta TechOps signed a multi-year agreement with Atlas Air to provide maintenance and support services for three Boeing 767-300ER aircraft, including 331 APU and CF6 engine time and materials maintenance support, and 767-300ER PBH component support.
The Qantas (QF) Airbus A380 that had been undergoing major repairs in Singapore since an inflight engine explosion in November 2010 returned to Sydney over the weekend.
The Pakistan government has mandated a new safety inspection for all privately run Pakistan airlines following the fatal crash of a Bhoja Air (BHO) Boeing 737-200 Friday.
The Russian Commission of the Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) said that the Federal Air Transport Agency Rosaviatsia violated competition law when it withdrew Transaero’s (UN) permission to operate charter service from Moscow (DME) to Rome (FCO), Milan (MXP) and Venice (VCE), according to a statement on the FAS website.
