Piedmont Airlines, a wholly owned subsidiary of US Airways, has reached a tentative agreement with the Communications Workers of America (CWA) on a four-and-a-half year collective bargaining agreement. CWA represents the airline's more than 3,000 fleet and passenger service employees. The CWA will present the details of the tentative agreement to its members with an endorsement for ratification, which is expected to take place in July. Once ratified, the agreement will extend through January 2017.
EgyptAir Group is considering acquiring either Embraer E-190 or Bombardier CSeries aircraft for EgyptAir Express (MSE) as the subsidiary prepares to take over some African routes currently operated by parent EgyptAir (MS) using Boeing 737-500s.
Mediated talks between American Airlines (AA) and its flight attendants have broken off, and the union representing the cabin crew has reiterated its preference for a merger with US Airways (US).
Aeromexico (AM) said Monday that Delta Air Lines’ (DL) $65 million investment in the Mexico City-based airline, first revealed last year, has been authorized by relevant government officials, enabling DL to take a 4.17% stake in AM.
Dana Air (9J) has confirmed that 146 passengers and seven crew members were killed when one of its Boeing MD-83s crashed into a building in Lagos, Nigeria, June 3.
Jade Cargo International (JI)—a Lufthansa Cargo (LHC)/Shenzhen Airlines (ZH) joint venture that struck a deal with China’s UniTop in March—may be liquidated after China’s UniTop abandoned its restructuring plan.
Chromalloy’s turbine engine component repair station in the Netherlands has received approved organization exposition certification from the Japan Civil Aviation Bureau. The certification will allow the station to provide FAA-approved designated engineering representative repairs on All Nippon Airways and Japan Airlines components. Sabena technics won an exclusive landing gear support contract from South African carrier Airlink, covering its fleet of eight BAe146-RJ85 aircraft.
Air France-KLM (AF-KLM) shareholders have refused overwhelmingly to validate the €400,000 ($495,256) bonus paid to Pierre-Henri Gourgeon, former CEO of AF-KLM.
Lufthansa (LH) flight LH416—the first Boeing 747-8I passenger service that flew from Frankfurt (FRA) to Washington Dulles (IAD)—landed at 12:45 local time Friday, 10 min. ahead of schedule.
The US, the European Union (EU) and Switzerland have agreed to mutually recognize each other’s air cargo security procedures and rules, a move aimed at streamlining duplicative screening practices and other time-consuming security protocols on transatlantic airfreight lanes.
Thai Airways International (TG) will press on with plans for an ultra low-cost carrier despite increasing concerns about growing capacity impacting the Thai aviation market.
A search team has recovered the flight data recorder (FDR) of the Russian Sukhoi Superjet 100 that crashed on a demonstration flight in Indonesia May 9 killing all 45 people on board.
Embraer named José Antonio Filippo as CFO, effective June 4. Filippo has worked for important Brazilian and multinational groups, Embraer said. Alaska Airlines (AS) has appointed Halle Hutchison as managing director-brand and marketing communications. Hutchison will join AS from Expedia, where she served as senior director-brand marketing.
Myanmar and India have signed an air services agreement (ASA) to “enhance direct air connectivity and facilitate easy business interaction, tourism and people-to people exchanges,” the governments said in a joint statement.
