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It Just Got Harder to Hop Another Flight When Yours Is Grounded

Two of the world's three largest airlines, American and Delta, will no longer exchange passengers to help them reach their destinations in bad weather or during other disruptions. Delta wants more money from the larger airline than American is willing to pay. The "interline" ag...

Should the U.S. Privatize Air Traffic Control?

The early air traffic control network in the U.S. was a patchwork with no central authority, a situation that lasted until a spate of midair collisions led to the birth of the Federal Aviation Agency in 1958. Six decades later some big U.S. airlines - with one notable exception - want the...

WIZZ AIR to purchase 110 Airbus A321Neos

Further to its announcement of the entry into a memorandum of understanding on 18 June 2015, Wizz Air Holdings Plc (the “Company” and, together with its subsidiaries, “Wizz Air”), the largest low-cost airline in Central and Eastern Europe, announces that it has completed and signed the purchase agreement with Airbus which, amongst other things, provides for the purchase of...

Airlines Fly High on Low Fuel Prices, Travel Growth

There is some oxygen for the choking Indian airline industry. Two positive factors -- domestic air travel growing at almost 30% and sharp fall in jet fuel prices -- are bringing the industry back from the brink, at a time when some players were staring at emergency exits. India's only profitable airline IndiGo reported on Thursday its highest ever net profit of Rs 1,304 crore for...

Samsung in Talks with Korean Air for Jet Sale

Samsung Electronics is in talks with Korean Air to sell its private jets and helicopters. "We are discussing with Korean Air to sell the company-owned jets and helicopters, a deal valued at a few million dollars," the company said, late Friday, adding the deal value is subject to change. Samsung plans to sell two Boeing 737s and a Bombardier 7000, and two EC-155 and four...

Germany Orders United Airlines Flight back over Bomb Threat

A United Airlines flight to San Francisco was ordered back shortly after takeoff from Frankfurt airport Friday because of a bomb threat, German authorities said. After the jet landed back in Frankfurt, all luggage and people on board were searched but no explosives were found, a German federal police spokesman said. Nobody was detained in the incident. "Police received a threa...

Vueling will hire up to 200 pilots as market demand grows

Spanish budget carrier Vueling has announced plans to hire as many as 200 first officers to meet market growth demand in the 2016 summer season. “We want to continue to provide professional opportunities to more pilots at our operational bases in Spain and elsewhere in Europe, as we have done in recent years,” COO Fernando Val said in a statement. For the upcoming recru...

United Airlines Unveils New Premium Seat for 200+ Narrowbody Aircraft

United Airlines is introducing a new, comfortable, custom-designed seat for first-class cabins on more than 200 of the company's narrowbody aircraft. The seat will debut on an Airbus A319 next week, with retrofits on A319s, A320s and many Boeing 737s and 757s through 2016. Developed with input from customers whom the airline invited to test seat prototypes, the custom seat...

Lufthansa pilots propose fresh talks with management

German pilots' union Vereinigung Cockpit has proposed fresh talks with Lufthansa management over early retirement benefits, a day after a court ruled a strike was unlawful because the union had overstepped its mandate. The union and management have been locked in a long-running battle that has resulted in 13 strikes over 18 months. The dispute began over Lufthansa's plans to scrap a sch...

Spirit Airlines, passenger traffic grows by 26.7% in August, 2015

Spirit Airlines reported its preliminary traffic results for August 2015. Traffic (revenue passenger miles) in August 2015 increased 26.7 percent versus August 2014 on a capacity (available seat miles) increase of 31.7 percent. Load factor for August 2015 was 86.2 percent, a decrease of 3.4 percentage points compared to August 2014. Contributing to this decrease was the shift of the Labor Day h...

Virgin America, passenger traffic grows by 4% in August, 2015

Virgin America Inc. reported its preliminary operational results for August 2015. The airline’s traffic (measured in revenue passenger miles) increased 1.5 percent on capacity (measured in available seat miles) that was 4.0% higher from the same month in 2014. Load factor was 83.6 percent, a decrease of 2.0 points from August 2014. The number of onboard passengers increased 10.5 percen...

Air Canada buys back its shares for $36.7 million

Air Canada announced that since commencing its normal course issuer bid on May 29th, 2015, it has purchased, for cancellation, a total of 3,185,735 Class A variable voting shares and Class B voting shares (collectively the "Shares") at an average Share price of $11.53 for an aggregate consideration of $36.7 million. Since August 17th, 2015, the day Air Canada's quarterly internal...

Aegean Airlines, passenger traffic grows by 30% in July-August, 2015

AEGEAN's international passenger traffic in July-August 2015 marked a 30% increase over the corresponding period of 2014. Overall, in two months, the company carried 3 million passengers on its domestic and international flights. AEGEAN’s significant expansion to new destinations, as well as targeted offers - mainly in the domestic network, where the closure of banks and the...

Malaysia Airlines and Air Lease sign agreement for 4 Airbus A350s

Malaysia Airlines Berhad (MAB) and Air Lease Corporation signed long-term lease agreements for four (4) new AirbusA350-900s. The transaction also includes a lease option for two additional A350-900s and two A330-900neo aircraft. Powered by two Rolls Royce Trent XWB-84 engines, the A350-900 aircraft are from ALC’s order book with Airbus and will be delivered between the fourth quar...

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Kuala Lumpur, Houston, Singapore: Starting in October, Lufthansa will begin flying to new destinations with Allegris

Lufthansa is focusing more than ever on premium service: Following the introduction of the new in-flight service on all long-haul flights in early May, the number of destinations where passengers can...

Air passenger rights reform: as European negotiations nearing conclusion, up to 60% of travelers could lose their right to compensation

Air passenger rights in Europe are at a critical crossroads. On June 2, the European Union’s Conciliation Committee will meet for a final round of negotiations on the revision of the European re...

Liebherr and Loong Air sign service agreement for heat transfer equipment

Liebherr-Aerospace and Loong Air launched a long-term collaboration, with Liebherr-Aerospace providing major repair and re-coring services for the heat transfer equipment on Loong Air’s A320ceo/...