Russia’s Transaero Airlines (UN) and Kazakhstan-based Air Astana (KC) have agreed to add one more frequency for each carrier on Moscow-Almaty (ALA) and Moscow-Astana (TSE) routes, due to growing demand.
Japan Airlines (JAL) and the International Airlines Group (IAG) have been granted antitrust immunity from the Japanese Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (MLIT) to cooperate commercially on flights between Europe and Japan, JAL said in a statement.
Malyasia’s fast-growing low-cost carrier AirAsia (AK) is considering ordering more Airbus A320s until its A320neo aircraft arrive, CEO Tony Fernandes told ATW on the sidelines of Airbus Innovation Days in Toulouse, where he took delivery of the carrier’s 100th A320.
European airlines have lined up to criticize the European Union's (EU) controversial Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS), warning once again that imposing it on non-EU nations and carriers risks a trade war.
Air France (AF) has reiterated its Transform 2015 plans to increase productivity by 20% and expects to sign new agreements with ground personnel, flight deck and cabin crew unions at the end of June.
Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood has appointed Charlie Leocha, director of the Consumer Travel Alliance (CTA), as the public interest representative to the Dept. of Transportation (DOT) Advisory Committee on Consumer Protections.
Vienna-based Austrian Airlines (OS) will combine its ground operations and hub management as it continues its $220 million restructuring program announced in January.
An Etihad Airways Airbus A330-200 has performed the first Required Navigation Performance – Authorization Required (RNP-AR) approach to Abu Dhabi Airport (AUH), marking the beginning of full RNP-AR implementation throughout AUH’s airspace.
Grandstar Cargo International Airlines (GD), the joint venture launched by Sinotrans Air Transportation Development Co. and Korean Air (KE), is expected to be liquidated due to continuous operating losses.
The Assn. of European Airlines (AEA) has renewed its call for the continent's states to implement the Single European Sky (SES) system to improve air traffic control.
The Airbus A350-1000 will beat the Boeing 777-300ER on range and fuel burn per passenger, but demand for the A350 is outstripping availability, Airbus COO-customers John Leahy said Wednesday during a media briefing in Toulouse, France.
Lufthansa German Airlines Board has created an HR and infrastructure services division, and has named Peter Gerber to lead the group from June 1. He has been responsible for finance and HR on the executive board of Lufthansa Cargo AG since 2009. Hawaiian Airlines hired Ron Anderson-Lehman as SVP and chief information officer. He is former SVP and chief information officer of Continental Airlines.
SAS Scandinavian Airlines has been given the go-ahead by the Swedish Tax Agency to change its financial year from the current calendar year to the period Nov. 1 to Oct. 31, starting this year.
Malaysia Airlines (MAS) reported a first-quarter after-tax loss of MYR171 million ($54.3 million), slightly improved from a MYR242 million loss for the same period last year.
Major European airline leaders warned the European Union (EU) Thursday to put its house in order if the continent's carriers can help stimulate growth in the recession-battered region.
With depressing repeatability, the latest terrorist bomb plot – thankfully foiled by intelligence agents – was again focused on bringing down a commercial airliner. According to the US Central Intelligence Agency, al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) was planning to destroy a U.S.-bound airliner using a bomb device that was similar in concept to that worn in his underwear by Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab in the attempted attack on Christmas Day 2009. But the AQAP device used a new design that would have made it very difficult to detect by magnetometer.
Modifications to repair wing rib cracks on in-service Airbus A380s will begin in the first quarter of 2013 and the composite material at the root of the problem will no longer be used on new-production aircraft delivered from 2014.
Russia will ratify the Montreal Convention before the end of 2012, Russia’s deputy minister of transport Valery Okulov said at the International Air Cargo Assn. (TIACA) summit in Moscow.
