Southwest Airlines has established a multipath career program to train ab initio, collegiate, military and employee candidates to become first officers with the airline.
Brazil’s GOL Airlines significantly narrowed its second-quarter (Q2) 2019 net loss to BRL195 million ($51 million), compared to a BRL1.9 billion Q2 2018 net loss, as record revenues and increased domestic market share boosted the LCC’s financial picture.
While South Korean airlines are responding to demand declines on routes to Japan, major Japanese airlines, are conversely not seeing drops in traffic on flights between the two countries.
British Airways (BA) lost its latest attempt July 31 to block pilots from staging a strike, as the likelihood of industrial action increased at the height of the summer holiday season.
Fixing the latest 737 MAX flight control system anomaly flagged by the FAA will not require hardware changes, and design differences between the MAX and its 737 Next Generation (737NG) predecessor mean the issue presents far less risk on older 737s, Aviation Daily has confirmed.
Spirit AeroSystems plans to continue producing Boeing 737 fuselages at a 52/month rate for the foreseeable future, storing extra inventory now and burning it off once Boeing ramps production up sometime in 2020.
Air France-KLM Group on July 31 reported a 26% decline in its 2019 second-quarter (Q2) net profit to €81 million ($92 million), down from €111 million a year ago.
Losses at its subsidiary carriers contributed to Singapore Airlines (SIA) Group posting a nearly 21% decline in its fiscal 2019/2020 first-quarter (Q1) net income.
Senior officials from the U.S. FAA defended the agency’s certification of the Boeing 737 MAX as “fundamentally sound” during a U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee hearing July 31.
Airbus reported a considerable jump in its first-half (H1) 2019 net profit, which more than doubled to almost €1.2 billion ($1.36 billion), compared to €496 million a year ago.
Hawaiian Airlines reported a decline in net profit for the second quarter (Q2) of 2019, as the airline faces increasing competitive pressure in some key markets.
The Chinese government is suspending the rights of its citizens to make individual visits to Taiwan, restricting visitations to the island only via groups organized by travel agencies.
AerCap sees continued strong demand for current-generation narrowbodies and suggests the A220 and E190 programs will thrive under Airbus and Boeing, respectively, its top executive said.
Allegiant Air’s decision to switch to an all-Airbus fleet continued to pay off in the 2019 second-quarter (Q2), as the airline’s net income jumped 41% despite having six fewer aircraft from the year-ago period.
Air Canada shook off the absence of its Boeing 737 MAXs to post record second-quarter (Q2) revenues and boost capacity but faces an even more challenging peak summer period as Q3 capacity will decline for the first time in a decade.
All Nippon Airways (ANA) saw its net profit slip by nearly 30% to ¥11.4 billion ($104.9 million) in the June quarter, partly due to higher costs as the airline prepares for a growth phase in 2020.
The U.S. mainline airline fleet is 85% compliant with the FAA’s approaching deadline to equip aircraft for automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast (ADS-B) Out position reporting, a “compliance snapshot” presented to the NextGen Advisory Committee (NAC) reveals.
Lufthansa Group, facing intense competition from European LCCs, delivered a 2019 first-half net loss of €116 million ($132 million), reversed from a €713 million net profit a year ago.
More than 600 UK-based aerospace firms have applied to the European Aviation Safety Agency for third-country OKs in preparation for a potential no-deal Brexit.
The much-delayed Berlin Brandenburg Airport (BER)—which is still on track to open in October 2020—has begun final technical tests, a prerequisite for opening.
Air France-KLM confirmed its transformation plans for the Air France fleet July 30 by signing an MOU for at least 60 Airbus A220s while also announcing it will retire the airline’s 10 A380s by 2022.
