The European Commission has closed a state aid investigation into state-owned Italian postal company Poste Italiane’s €75 million ($85 million) investment in Alitalia.
Total TSA Gun Catches year-to-date (loaded or unloaded firearms, plus stun-guns, discovered at TSA checkpoints across the US). 140 firearms were discovered in January 2014. 118 firearms (84.3%) were loaded. 85 stun-guns have been caught as of Feb. 6, 2014.
India’s Jet Airways has posted a net profit of $0.5 million in the third quarter of FY2015 compared to a $46 million loss a year ago, its first quarterly profit since 2012.
Total TSA Gun Catches year-to-date (loaded or unloaded firearms, plus stun-guns, discovered at TSA checkpoints across the US). 172 firearms were discovered in January 2015, up 22.9% year-over-year. 143 firearms (83.1%) were loaded. 68 stun-guns have been caught as of Feb. 5, 2015, down 20% year-over-year.
Gulf Air has resumed flights to Baghdad International Airport following a temporary suspension over safety concerns after a Flydubai aircraft on a commercial flight was hit with bullets on landing.
Ethiopian Airlines is evaluating the Airbus A350-1000 and the Boeing 777X as it considers further widebody order plans, CEO Tewolde Gebremariam has confirmed to ATW.
Japan-based All Nippon Airways (ANA) plans to extend its dedicated freighter hub in Okinawa for its midnight express and intra-Asia/Japanese domestic network.
South African Airways (SAA) has confirmed it is “technically insolvent” and reliant on government guarantees, which stand at R14.3 billion ($1.2 billion).
TransAsia Airways has canceled 90 scheduled flights and is sending all its active ATR pilots for retraining under the scrutiny of Taiwan’s Civil Aeronautics Administration (CAA), following the fatal crash of an ATR 72-600 last week.
German public services trade union Verdi has called for a one-day strike Monday of security personnel at Hanover, Hamburg and Stuttgart airports, causing canceled flights and delays for several thousand passengers.
Bombardier has completed flutter, cold-weather and passenger-evacuation testing as CSeries flight tests pass the 900-hour mark en route to the 2,400 hours expected to be required for certification of the initial CS100 version.
Flydubai took delivery of its 44th Boeing 737-800 of an order for 50 placed at the Farnborough Airshow in 2008. The remaining 737s from the order will arrive at the airline this year. The average age of the flydubai fleet is 3.1 years. Flydubai also has on order 75 Boeing 737 MAX 8s and 11 more Boeing 737-800s, placed at the Dubai Airshow 2013.
Aireon, which has developed a space-based Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS–B) global air traffic surveillance system, is to base its planned global emergency tracking service in Ireland.
New Greek start-up SkyGreece Airlines will launch services from Toronto to Athens, Thessaloniki and Croatian capital Zagreb this summer following relevant approvals from the Greek and Canadian authorities.
Both of TransAsia Airways flight GE235’s Pratt & Whitney Canada PW127M engines stopped producing thrust during the brief flight of the ATR 72-600, investigators said.
In the Jan.21 ATW editor’s blog urging US airlines to “stop whining” about unfair competition from the three Gulf carriers – Emirates, Qatar and Etihad – the editor suggests that a vital US industry sits idly by in the face of these airlines’ government subsidized expansion that is inflicting undue harm on US airlines and American jobs.
