Economy passenger travel surged 8% year-over-year in April—the biggest leap in economy traffic since March 2012, when economy traffic grew 8.9%, according to IATA’s April Premium Traffic Monitor.
TIMCO Aviation Services, a subsidiary of the Hong Kong Aircraft Engineering Co., has launched new line maintenance and cabin services operations at Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport and at San Francisco International Airport.
Aircraft retirements will reach 1,000 aircraft a year within a decade, ICF International principal Richard Brown said at an Aircraft Fleet Recycling Association’s (AFRA) annual meeting.
A passenger on board a Pakistan International Airlines’ Airbus A310 was killed and others were wounded when the aircraft was hit by gunfire as it landed at Peshawar Airport in the early hours of Wednesday.
Asiana Airlines Flight 214’s pilots didn’t have a full understanding of the aircraft’s automated systems and “mismanaged” the approach to San Francisco International Airport (SFO), the US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has concluded.
A six-day strike by one of France’s largest air traffic controllers’ unions, the UNSA-ICNA, is set to cause major disruption to flights throughout Europe.
Finnair will outsource its cabin crew on approximately 20 long- and short-haul routes over the next two years, leading to job cuts, after union talks failed to hit its €18 million ($24 million) cost-cutting target.
"In the next five-to-10 years, China will embrace an explosive growth period for low-cost carriers,” Hainan Airlines’ low-cost subsidiary Hong Kong Express president Ma Zhimin noted earlier this year.
