The crises in Ukraine, Libya, Syria and Iraq have not had much of an impact on Turkish Airlines’ operations because it has such a huge network, CEO Temel Kotil told ATW in Istanbul.
Russia’s Federal Air Transport Agency, Rosaviatsia, has suspended Bylina Airline’s air operator’s certificate (AOC), effective Sept. 1, after carrier’s management revealed the airline could no longer operate due to financial problems.
A new codeshare agreement between Taiwan’s China Airlines and Qantas represents the latest step in the Australian carrier’s drive to expand its Asian network.
Gittens is a tireless advocate for airports but she also champions a holistic view of the air transport system in which all players work together on key issues.
The African market remains one of the most challenging in the global airline industry, with an EBIT margin of around just 0.7% anticipated for African carriers collectively this year. That would at least mark a small profit, relative to the previous year’s loss, but it is fragile and there are wide differences in the success of individual airlines.
Since the shootdown of Malaysia Airlines MH17 there has been industry-wide chatter about whether aircraft insurance companies will increase fees, especially when airlines fly over war territories.
The commercial air transportation industry is moving to address safety gaps in the system exposed by the shooting down of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 in July. The problem the industry has, however, is that solutions to this crisis lie outside of the commercial industry, whose representative organizations have little to no power to enforce change.
"Our government is subsidizing foreign state-owned airlines and giving them an economic advantage over US carriers." What is surprising about the quote, which relates to the call for reform of lending policies of the US Export-Import Bank, is that it comes not from an airline CEO, but from Lee Moak, president of the Air Line Pilots Association, International (ALPA), which represents 50,000 airline pilots in the US and Canada.
Alitalia’s route network plans show the Italian carrier being pulled into orbit around the fast-growing, Abu Dhabi-based Etihad Airways, following the closing of a long-awaited major investment deal. The deal between Etihad and Alitalia finally came to fruition in early August in a complex transaction worth €1.75 billion ($2.35 billion).
Some six months after Norwegian Air Shuttle applied for US permission to launch its long-haul, low-cost operation, Norwegian Air International (NAI), between Europe and the US, the company is still waiting for a yes or no from the Department of Transportation. Latest filings to DOT for and against the application (see story, page 9) show the two sides digging in.
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Las Vegas-based Allegiant Air plans to add international service for the first time as early as next year, starting with flights to Mexico, according to president and COO Andrew Levy.
About 30% of Delta Air Lines’ traffic in Seattle is connecting, mainly to Asia, a trend the carrier expects to grow as it builds out its Pacific gateway, an executive said at the Boyd Group International Aviation Forecast Summit in Las Vegas.
Acknowledging that SkyWest Inc.’s 2010 acquisition of ExpressJet remains a drag on earnings, CEO Jerry Atkin said he believes he can still turn around the struggling regional carrier.
Air New Zealand has again boosted its annual profit for the fiscal year through June 30, which will help the carrier accommodate the significant investments it is making in fleet growth and lounge upgrades.
Latvian flag-carrier airBaltic reported a first-half net profit of €14.49 million ($19.8 million), reversing a net loss of €12.45 million during the January-June period last year.
Air China reported a first-half net profit of CNY510 million ($82.7 million), down 55% compared with a net income of CNY1.14 billion in the year-ago period.
Central and Eastern Europe-based Wizz Air—which recently added the fifth aircraft and launched eight new routes in Warsaw—will deploy two additional aircraft in Katowice and Poznan.
UK air navigation services provider NATS has signed an agreement with Manchester Airports Group (MAG) confirming a 10-year contract to provide air traffic control and engineering services at both Manchester and London Stansted airports.
IATA is calling for Vietnamese authorities to ensure there are appropriate regulatory structures in place to oversee an expected wave of airport construction and privatization.
