Air Transport World

Airbus said it will build nine A330s per month instead of the current production rate of 10 starting in the 2015 fourth quarter.
Aircraft & Propulsion

Spring Airlines has been approved to launch an initial public offering (IPO) to fund its rapid fleet expansion by the end of the year.
Airlines & Lessors

Florida-based regional Silver Airways plans to increase its intra-Florida flights 40% beginning Nov. 6 and will soon operate more than 560 weekly flights to 10 Florida cities.
Airports & Networks

By Alan Dron
Middle Eastern carrier Oman Air has announced plans to introduce business-class service to four of its routes between Muscat and the Indian subcontinent.
Aircraft & Propulsion

For 89 commercial airlines worldwide, year-to-date passenger traffic, RPKs, load factors, and FTKs
Airlines & Lessors

By Victoria Moores
Irish budget carrier Ryanair is planning to nearly double its passenger numbers by 2024, excluding its long-haul ambitions and its current bid to acquire Cyprus Airways.
Airlines & Lessors

By Polina Montag-Girmes
Russia’s air transport industry needs at least RUB75 billion ($1.85 billion) to stabilize in the coming year, according to Moscow-based State Research and Development Institute for Civil Aeronautics.
Airlines & Lessors

The Eurocontrol Network Manager and the European Aviation Crisis Coordination Cell (EACCC)—set up by the European Commission and Eurocontrol to support coordination of the response to network crisis situations—say they are monitoring the evolution of the Ebola outbreak in West Africa and its potential impact on European aviation.
Airports & Networks

By Mark Nensel
In 20 years, China will be the world’s largest airline passenger market, the US will have fallen to second place, and India will overtake the UK as the third-largest market, according to IATA’s new 20-year Global Passenger Forecast report.
Airlines & Lessors

By Linda Blachly
Embraer has made the first metal cut of the E-jets E2, second generation of the E-Jets family of commercial jets at its Évora plant in Portugal.
Aircraft & Propulsion

Canadian training specialist CAE has signed a deal with Japan Airlines (JAL) to train its pilots in Tokyo, giving the company presence in a new and potentially fruitful Asia-Pacific market.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

Airline Routes-Oct. 17, 2014
Airports & Networks

US Transportation Security Administration (TSA) head John Pistole will retire effective Dec. 31, TSA announced Thursday.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

The European regional branch of the Airports Council International (ACI Europe) is calling for “urgent coordination” between health authorities at a European Union (EU) level over the implementation of screening at airports and any potential risks to air travelers.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

Banjul-based Gambia Bird Airlines has been forced to postpone its planned resumption of flights between London and the Sierra Leone capital Freetown Friday following the UK Department for Transport’s (DfT) decision to revoke the airline’s permit for direct flights between the two cities.
Airports & Networks

By Alan Dron
Air France-KLM Group and its pilot unions have reached an agreement over one of the most fractious aspects of the recent damaging strike by the cockpit crews.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Tony Osborne
Heathrow Airport Holdings will sell off Aberdeen, Glasgow and Southampton airports to a consortium of Ferrovial and Macquarie in a deal worth £1.048 billion ($1.68 billion).
Airports & Networks

KLM Royal Dutch Airlines has announced that president and CEO Camiel Eurlings has resigned.
Airlines & Lessors

By Victoria Moores
The Association of European Airlines (AEA) has acknowledged there will definitely be European airline failures over the next three to five years, potentially including some of its members.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

Delta Air Lines posted net income of $357 million for the third quarter, down 74% from a net profit of $1.37 billion in the 2013 September quarter.
Airlines & Lessors

By Sean Broderick
The US, working to track down passengers on one flight that included a person who tested positive for Ebola, will pressure counterparts in several countries to step up efforts to help mitigate the outbreak’s reach, President Barack Obama said Wednesday.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Victoria Moores
SAS Scandinavian Airlines president and CEO Rickard Gustafson has said he will push to make the airline’s mainline division more competitive, rather than setting up a low-cost unit.
Airlines & Lessors

By Polina Montag-Girmes
Aeroflot’s new low-cost (LCC) subsidiary—Byudzhetny Perevozchik, which directly translates as Budget Carrier—has launched a website and disclosed its route network.
Airports & Networks

By Linda Blachly
Airline News-Oct. 16, 2014
Airlines & Lessors

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is seeking to interview 132 passengers who flew on an Oct. 13 Frontier Airlines flight from Cleveland to Dallas/Fort Worth after one of the flight’s passengers tested positive for the Ebola virus.
Safety, Ops & Regulation