Swiss carrier Darwin Airline, which is poised to launch as Etihad Regional Jan. 16, is seeking four turboprops to add to its existing fleet of nine Saab 2000s with the ATR 72 emerging as a likely choice.
Moody’s Investors Service has become the second ratings agency to downgrade Australian airline Qantas to junk status, forcing the carrier’s borrowing costs to rise.
Swiss International Air Lines, which faces increased competition with the Jan. 1 launch of a daily Emirates Airline Airbus A380 Dubai-Zurich service, has called for fair competition between European and Gulf carriers.
Airbus has begun the latest stage in the A350 XWB development program with the arrival of the third development aircraft, MSN3, in Bolivia for high-altitude testing.
Global air cargo made a “solid improvement” in November with a total market increase of 6.1% in FTKs year-over-year, according to IATA’s global air freight report for November.
The US National Transportation Safety Board on Wednesday said that investigative work into the Jan. 7, 2013, fire aboard a Japan Airlines Boeing 787 at Boston Logan Airport is estimated to be completed by the end of March.
Low-cost carrier Norwegian Air Shuttle has secured an agreement from Boeing to beef up maintenance teams for its fleet of 787 Dreamliners following a series of technical problems that has seen the Scandinavian carrier repeatedly having to lease short-notice replacement aircraft.
Philippine low-cost carrier Cebu Pacific will acquire 100% ownership of no-frills carrier Tigerair Philippines as part of a strategic alliance between Cebu Pacific and Singapore-based Tigerair.
Turkish Airlines, which has just firmed options on another seven Airbus A321-200neos, will decide whether to go ahead with the remaining options by 2015.
Berlin’s acting mayor Klaus Wowereit has said the much-delayed Berlin Brandenburg Airport will not open this year as predicted, due to more technical issues.
Switzerland-based regional carrier SkyWork Airlines has extended its air operator’s certificate (AOC) until Jan. 31, SkyWork spokesperson Andreas Schneider confirmed to ATW in Berne.
Abu Dhabi-based Etihad Airways, which announced it will accelerate its expansion drive for 2014, released a welter of statistics documenting its activities in 2013.
AAR reported that during the second quarter of its fiscal 2014 it had sales of $540.7 million and net income of $20.0 million, compared with sales of $512.8 million and net income of $17.8 million in the same quarter of the prior year.
