Air Transport World

Briefs from the November 3, 2014 issue of ATW's Skypaths

Briefs from the October 27, 2014 issue of ATW's Skypaths

Lufthansa began to modify its Airbus A320 family fleet last month with vortex generators to reduce noise. The first modified aircraft was an A319.
Aircraft & Propulsion

Frontier Airlines will not launch two new routes next month to the Bahamas as scheduled, saying that bookings “did not meet expectations,” an airline spokesman confirmed.
Airports & Networks

Airline Routes-Nov. 3, 2014
Airports & Networks

Southwest Airlines has launched Southwest-branded flights to Punta Cana and Mexico City, in a step closer to its integration with AirTran Airways.
Airports & Networks

By Polina Montag-Girmes
Air Armenia has suspended operations until Dec. 20, due to a decrease in ticket sales resulting in financial instability.
Airlines & Lessors

By Adrian Schofield
Qantas has struck a setback in its attempt to impose an 18-month wage freeze on all employee groups, after its short-haul pilots rejected a new contract including this clause.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Adrian Schofield
Vietnam Airlines has received the first formal submissions from foreign companies seeking to become strategic investors in the airline, Vietnamese officials said.
Airlines & Lessors

Finnair Group reported a net profit of €16.6 million for the third quarter ended Sept. 30, down 38.3% from €27 million for the same period last year.
Airlines & Lessors

By Victoria Moores
Irish budget carrier Ryanair is planning to finalize its order for 100 Boeing 737 MAX aircraft during an internal meeting at the end of November.
Aircraft & Propulsion

Hawaiian Airlines has made clear that it will not sit on the sidelines while American Airlines and Delta Air Lines battle over access to Tokyo’s close-in Haneda Airport.
Airports & Networks

By Victoria Moores
Ryanair has significantly increased its full-year net profit guidance to €750-€770 million ($939- $964 million) from its earlier €650 million forecast, after posting a 32% hike in its first-half net profit.
Airlines & Lessors

Airberlin CEO Wolfgang Prock-Schauer announced Monday he will step down Feb. 1, 2015, as former Lufthansa executive and Fiji Airways CEO Stefan Pichler takes the helm to move the company forward with its previously announced restructuring program, the company said Monday.
Airlines & Lessors

U.S. Airports Average Domestic Air Fare, ranked by year-over-year percent change. Source: US Department of Transportation, Bureau of Transportation Statistics; ATW Research From BTS: BTS reports average fares based on domestic itinerary fares. Itinerary fares consist of round-trip fares, unless the customer does not purchase a return trip. In that case, the one-way fare is included. Constant 2014 dollars are used for inflation adjustment.
Airlines & Lessors

International Airlines Group (IAG) reported a net profit of €598 million ($749 million) for the quarter ended Sept. 30, up 3.1% from €580 million in the year-ago period.
Airlines & Lessors

Worldwide airlines ranked by available current-month Passenger Load Factor percentage, high-to-low, year-to-date.
Airlines & Lessors

Southwest Airlines moves closer to its integration with AirTran Airways. Today it launched Southwest-branded flights to Punta Cana and Mexico City
Airlines & Lessors

By Guy Norris
The US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) investigation team probing the cause of the Oct. 31 crash of Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo spaceplane said two seconds before beginning to break-up in midair the vehicle’s two moveable tail booms unexpectedly began to deploy into a “feathering” position.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

Top 25 Airlines, calculated and ranked by RPK figures, year-to-date 2014
Airlines & Lessors

The latest airport passenger traffic and aircraft movements for 265 airports worldwide, presented by monthly and year-to-date figures.
Airlines & Lessors

By Guy Norris, Karen Walker
Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo (SS2) has crashed into the Mojave Desert after experiencing an inflight “anomaly” during the first test of a new hybrid rocket motor at Mojave, California on Oct. 31.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Linda Blachly
Monarch Airlines has finalized an order for 30 Boeing 737 MAX 8s, worth more than $3.2 billion at current list prices.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Adrian Schofield
Japan Airlines [JAL] saw its profits slip slightly in the six months through September, but falling fuel prices have prompted the carrier to raise its profitability guidance for its full fiscal year.
Airlines & Lessors

Air Canada’s pilots have ratified by a wide margin a 10-year labor contract that the airline’s executives characterized as “ground breaking.”
Safety, Ops & Regulation