US Air Transport Assn. said that passenger revenue rose 13% in February compared to the year-ago period, marking the 14th consecutive month of year-over-year revenue gains. RPMs rose 2.1% while average price per flown mile (yield) climbed 10.8%. The information was based on data from most US majors excluding Southwest Airlines. ATA said that international markets "remained especially strong" as passenger revenue grew 17%, led by a 27% increase in Pacific revenue. Domestic revenue grew 11.5% largely driven by a 10.5% rise in yield.
Barco said Selex Sistemi Integrati selected its arrival and departure manager software for deployment at the new Doha International Airport, scheduled to open in 2012. JDA Software announced Continental Airlines has completed implementation of the JDA Cargo Revenue Optimizer and "related solutions."
Spanish airport operator AENA and unions reached a preliminary agreement to call off 22 days of strike action between April and August ( ATW Daily News, March 9), AENA said on Wednesday. “The agreement was reached after nearly 20 hours of talks,” it noted in a press release, adding that the accord still had to be voted on by workers.
The planned strike by the Indian Commercial Pilots Assn., the union representing 800 Air India pilots who were Indian Airlines pilots prior to the 2007 merger, has been deferred for four weeks as talks begin with the labor commissioner ( ATW Daily News, March 15).
The impact for European airlines and airports owing to the Japanese earthquake, tsunami and crisis at the Fukushima nuclear plant should be limited to global GDP, FX rates, fuel prices and a possible shift of capacity away from Japan, according to a research report by Citi Investment Research & Analysis.
Lufthansa's supervisory board on Wednesday approved orders for 35 new aircraft comprising 25 Airbus A320neos, five A321neos and five Boeing 777 freighters.
Air New Zealand warned it will lose money in the second half of the financial year because of high fuel prices and the impact of earthquakes in New Zealand and Japan. It expects full-year earnings to fall below NZ$100 million ($75 million). Japan Airlines is calling on its JAL Mileage Bank members to donate miles to raise funds for relief work in Japan. The airline told members that for every 7,500 miles donated, ¥7,500 ($91.60) will be contributed to help victims of last Friday’s devastating earthquake and support recovery and restoration process.
Momentum in the air transport operational recovery in Tokyo following last week's devastating earthquake and tsunami could be difficult to maintain in the face of growing fears over radiation exposure from unstable nuclear reactors.
Jeppesen HAS introduced design enhancements to its industry-leading commercial airline overlay (CAO) chart library and has added 400 new airport/approach charts to the series for more than 70 global locations to benefit airlines operating worldwide.
EasyJet is the first airline Swiss International Air Lines said it performed its flight operations Munich became the first airport in Germany to receive
Eurocontrol’s Maastricht Upper Area Control Center implemented the first phase of its so-called Free Route Airspace Maastricht program, which aims to put into place a direct route network to reduce flight times, fuel burn, carbon and other emissions and costs in high-density European airspace. The first phase covers 142 new direct routes in the MUAC-controlled airspace, initially only during the least busy hours of the night to ensure maximum safety. From year end they also will be used on weekends.
Air New Zealand began daily ASPIRE (Asia and South Pacific Initiative to Reduce Emissions) flights between Auckland and San Francisco last month, moving the program beyond the demonstration stage. It launched ASPIRE—a JV between US FAA and its counterparts and airlines in Australia, New Zealand, Japan and Singapore to reduce fuel burn--with the first demonstration flight in the fall of 2008.
Ross Garnaut, head of the Garnaut Climate Change Review developed in 2008 for the Australian government, said his view over the past four years has moved from an acceptance of “the balance of probabilities to beyond reasonable doubt.”
The general public in the UK has become somewhat skeptical about climate change after three of the harshest winters on record and people no longer are bothered by the issue, according to the head of a leading think tank.
The European Commission has published its historical emissions data upon which allocations for the aviation Emissions Trading Scheme will be based, stating that "aviation emissions of 219,476,343 tonnes of CO2 represents the average of the estimated annual emissions for the years 2004, 2005 and 2006" for flights that will be covered under the ETS starting next year.
Cathay Pacific Airways Head of Environmental Affairs Mark Watson warns that an emerging patchwork of regional environmental schemes to tax carbon and aviation will cause major market distortions and a nightmare of paperwork. Speaking with ATW’s Eco-Aviation Today, Watson said a number of countries such as Australia are moving to tax aviation carbon and warned that in the absence of a global scheme there could be “a plethora of competing schemes with significant overlap.”
CAE said it sold four Level D full-flight simulators, as well as four CAE Simfinity trainers, to airline customers in Asia and Europe, in contracts worth approximately C$50 million ($51.4 million).
Air service to Tokyo Narita and Haneda airports was largely operating normally Monday, though governments worldwide continued to advise against travel to Japan as the nation attempts to manage unstable nuclear reactors in the aftermath of last week's devastating earthquake and tsunami.
The Indian Commercial Pilots Assn., the union representing 800 Air India pilots who were Indian Airlines pilots prior to the 2007 merger, said its members will go on strike starting Wednesday.
The Indian Commercial Pilots Assn., the union representing 800 Air India pilots who were Indian Airlines pilots prior to the 2007 merger, said its members will go on strike starting Wednesday.
