Germany’s airports will face disruptions and flight cancellations Tuesday due to a public sector strike across Germany affecting ground handling and transportation staff.
British Airways (BA) received approval Friday to fly a Boeing 747 on its London (LHR)-Moscow Domodedovo (DME) route, just two days before the first scheduled flight began Sunday.
China Eastern Airlines (MU) chairman Liu Shaoyong has called on the Chinese government to make an $18 billion-$20 billion capital injection into China’s big three state-owned carriers to alleviate increasing financial pressure.
Germany’s airports will face disruptions and flight cancellations Tuesday due to a public sector strike across Germany affecting ground handling and transportation staff.
China Eastern Airlines (MU) and Qantas Group (QF) are planning to launch a low-cost subsidiary, Jetstar Hong Kong. The Hong Kong-based joint venture (JV) is expected to launch in 2013.
Aegean Airlines launched 4X-weekly Athens-Budapest Airbus A320 service March 9. Allegiant Air will launch 2X-weekly Hagerstown, Md.-Orlando Sanford service May 25. Starflyer will launch 2X-daily Kitakyushsu-Busan A320 service July 12. Kenya Airways will launch 4X-weekly Nairobi-New Delhi 767-300 service May 15. Silver Airways will launch 10X-weekly Billings-Helena service May 1.
EVA Airways (BR) will begin serving two more gateways with its Hello Kitty jets May 23. The airline will use two of its new cartoon character-themed Airbus 330-300s on its Taipei Songshan-Tokyo Haneda (HND) and Songshan-Shanghai Hongqiao routes. The flights (BR192/BR191 and BR 190/191) will be 2X daily. BR is also working to give two A330-200s Hello Kitty jet makeovers.
US carriers’ on-time arrival performance in January improved 7.4% over the year-ago period. According to the US Dept. of Transportation’s (DOT) Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS), the 16 carriers reporting on-time performance data posted an overall on-time arrival rate of 83.7% in January, up from 76.3% in January 2011, but down slightly from December’s 84.4% ( ATW Daily News, Feb. 24).
KLM and Ukraine International Airlines are increasing capacity between Amsterdam and Kiev and expanding their codeshare agreement, partly in response to an anticipated rise in demand owing to the upcoming 2012 UEFA European Football Championship in Ukraine.
Aveos Fleet Performance Inc., the Montreal-based MRO provider, last week ceased operations, terminating the employment of approximately 1,300 workers. “The company had no viable option but to cease operations,” Aveos chairman Eugene Davis said. “We deeply regret the job losses and the impact this decision has on our employees in Canada.”
Applying the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS) carbon tax to the world's airlines is an important challenge to the long-standing process of agreeing aviation rules and regulations through ICAO, the US State Department's transportation chief said Thursday.
International Airlines Group (IAG) CEO Willie Walsh, speaking to ATW on the sidelines of Air Berlin's oneworld joining ceremony last week, said he is awaiting word from European Union regulators on the status of IAG's acquisition of British Midland International (bmi).
Iberia Express (I2), Iberia's (IB) new subsidiary for short and medium-haul flights, started scheduled flights Sunday with four A320s operating from Madrid (MAD) to four destinations in Spain, despite opposition from IB mainline pilots and unions representing cabin crew.
Iberia Express (I2), Iberia's (IB) new subsidiary for short and medium-haul flights, will start scheduled flights Sunday with four A320s operating from Madrid (MAD) to four destinations in Spain, despite opposition from IB mainline pilots and unions representing cabin crew.
Applying the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS) carbon tax to the world's airlines is an important challenge to the long-standing process of agreeing aviation rules and regulations through ICAO, the US State Department's transportation chief said Thursday. State Department deputy assistant secretary for transportation affairs Krishna Urs said if countries do not go through ICAO to agree new international rules and regulations, it creates a hodge podge of rules that make it very complicated for the world's airlines to manage.
Embraer will establish the Embraer Engineering and Technology Center USA as part of its growing aeronautical cluster in Melbourne, Fla. It will be a subsidiary of Embraer Aircraft Holdings Inc., Embraer SA’s wholly owned subsidiary in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., and will mean about 200 new jobs in Melbourne over the next five years. Bulgaria Air took delivery of four Embraer E-190s March 21. The remaining three aircraft will be delivered by year end.
Air France (AF) will start operating an Airbus A380 on the Paris Charles de Gaulle (CDG)-Singapore (SIN) route April 1. Frequencies will be 3X-weekly from June to the end of October.
El Al Israel Airlines incurred a $49.4 million net loss for 2011, reversed from a $57.1 million net profit in 2010, and said it will take a series of measures to restore profitability.
Chinese carriers reported a collective net loss of CNY540 million ($85.3 million) in February, reversed from a net income of CNY1.34 billion in the year-ago period.
