Southwest Airlines (SWA) has reached a tentative agreement with the unions representing flight attendants of the merged SWA and AirTran Airways that would integrate the two groups’ seniority lists.
Transaero Airlines (UN) has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Boeing for four Boeing 787s. The deal is valued at $774 million at list prices.
Today, flight numbers are often four digits. Earlier in the industry's history, lower numbers were used, and even single digits were not uncommon. Most airlines referred to them as "flights", although Braniff, for one, used the alternative term "trip". And in the piston era, it also was not unusual for at least some flights in a carrier's timetable to also carry a name.
Internet bookings have lifted Lufthansa’s (LH) position in Russia to be the country’s biggest foreign carrier, according to LH regional director-Russia and the CIS Ronald Schultz.
Lufthansa (LH) will transfer more flights out of Stuttgart (STR) to its low-cost subsidiary Germanwings (4U) beginning next year as both carriers optimize their route networks.
LOT Polish Airlines (LOT), which first operated Warsaw (WAW) service to Beijing (PEK) from summer 1987 to the end of 1999, plans to re-open the route in 2012 with a Boeing 767—and by the end of 2012, with a Boeing787. It will be the second resumption for LOT, which operated WAW-PEK for four months in 2008.
Evergreen International Airlines, the Oregon-based cargo carrier, has signed up for a Boeing 747-400 passenger-to-freighter conversion that will be delivered in 2012, Boeing said.
Japan Airlines (JAL) and WestJet (WS) have reached a codeshare agreement under which JAL will place its code on WS flights between Vancouver and Calgary (6X-weekly), Edmonton (daily), Kelowna (daily), Montreal (daily), Toronto (6X-weekly) and Winnipeg (6X-weekly), as of Dec. 15.
Sabena technics has named Jacques Bernardi as EVP-component services. Bernardi joins Sabena from Goodrich Actuation Systems where he served as director-aftermarket and MRO. Damco has appointed Flemming Frost as its new CEO for Europe, replacing Kim Hedegaard Sorenson Jan. 1. Frost comes from Damco North Asia, where he oversaw branch operations in Mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan.
More than 2,100 ExpressJet and Atlantic Southeast Airlines (ASA) flight attendants have voted to join the International Assn. of Machinists and Aerospace Workers. The election was prompted by the merger of the two airlines after Utah-based SkyWest Inc. last year acquired Houston-based ExpressJet and announced it would merge with SkyWest's Atlanta-based subsidiary ASA ( ATW Daily News, Oct. 17).
Nok Mini Saab 340. Courtesy, SAL Saab Aircraft Leasing (SAL) has completed the sale of an undisclosed number of aircraft from its European portfolio to four companies and agreed a lease with a fifth company.
Moscow Vnukovo (VKO) announced it will suspend serving Kuban Airlines (GW) flights as of Dec. 26 because the of carrier’s debt to the airport. According to a VKO statement, the Krasnodar-based regional carrier owes the airport nearly RUB400 million ($12.6 million), an amount GW denies, saying it is over twice the amount of the real debt. The carrier also said in a statement the debt had been rescheduled, which it will pay from April 2012. Airline representatives published proving documents on social networks.
LAN Airlines shareholders approved the Santiago de Chile-based carrier's planned merger with Brazil's TAM under LATAM Airlines Group, taking another step toward the expected completion of the combination early next year.
The Independent Pilots Assn. (IPA), representing about 2,700 United Parcel Service (UPS) pilots, petitioned a US federal court in Washington Thursday, challenging cargo carriers' exemption from new pilot flight time, duty and rest regulations finalized by FAA Wednesday.
British Airways (BA) owner International Airlines Group (IAG) reached a binding agreement with Lufthansa Group (LH) to buy British Midland Ltd. (bmi), the companies announced Thursday.
The China Air Transport Assn. (CATA) is rethinking its lawsuit strategy against the European Union Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) in the wake of this week’s Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU) ruling.
British Airways (BA) owner International Airlines Group (IAG) reached a binding agreement with Lufthansa Group (LH) to buy British Midland Ltd. (bmi), the companies announced Thursday.
Saab Aircraft Leasing (SAL) has completed the sale of an undisclosed number of aircraft from its European portfolio to four companies and agreed to a lease with a fifth company.
More than 2,100 ExpressJet and Atlantic Southeast Airlines (ASA) flight attendants have voted to join the International Assn. of Machinists and Aerospace Workers.
Hawaiian Airlines will increase 2X-daily Honolulu-Los Angeles service to 3X-daily June 7. Mokulele Airlines announced the full restoration of scheduled flight operations as of Dec.12. It had voluntarily suspended operations temporarily to complete an internal records audit.
