Germany-based Condor Airlines plans to launch long-haul flights from Munich after six years of not operating from Germany‘s second largest airport. Condor will base two Boeing 767-300ERs in Munich.
Qatar Airways has reported further effects from the grounding of its Boeing 787-8s, announcing frequency reductions on one new route and a launch postponement on another. The 787 has been grounded worldwide since Jan. 16.
Iberia said it has found alternative flights for about 38,000 of the 40,000 passengers booked on flights cancelled by the second in a series of three week-long strikes by the airline’s ground staff and cabin crews that began Monday and will last all week. The airline said it would offer new travel dates or full refunds to the 2,000 passengers it was unable to accommodate.
Korean Air has taken delivery of the first Boeing 777 built at the manufacturer’s increased production rate of 8.3 per month, or 100 aircraft per year. JetBlue Airways has signed a letter of intent with Airbus to acquire 110 ship-sets of retrofit Sharklets for the airline's in-service A320 aircraft. Deliveries are scheduled to start in 2014.
Pan-African air navigation services provider ASECNA has been given the go-ahead to start work preparing for the future deployment of Global Navigation Satellite System/European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service (GNSS/EGNOS) in the region.
Belgian leisure carrier Jetairfly has taken delivery of the first of two new Embraer E-190s, which it has secured on lease from Singapore-based BOC Aviation.
FAA, other US government agencies and aerospace companies with defense contracts are bracing for the impact of mandatory federal spending reductions that took effect on Friday.
Air China has agreed to buy 31 Boeing aircraft, including 20 737-800s, according to a Friday filing with the Hong Kong stock exchange made by the airline.
Back in the late 1980s, Tom Horton and Doug Parker sat in nearby cubicles at American Airlines’ Dallas/Fort Worth headquarters offices, two young men just starting their careers in airline management. Neither could have imagined that a quarter century later they would be the key figures negotiating what is expected to be the last big US airline merger.
Sherwin-Williams Aerospace Coatings named Dewy Mullins OEM qualifications manager. Mullins joins the company from ChemAero Solutions where he served as president, responsible for OEM product qualification, product sales, and revenue growth for its North American commercial airline MRO market segment.
Airlines for America (A4A) president and CEO Nicholas Calio reiterated his call for the US government to reduce the tax and regulatory burden on the nation’s airlines.
