Category: AIRLINES & AIRPORTS

Russia’s S7 Brings Оneworld Alliance to Belarus

Reading Time: < 1 minute Russia’s S7 Airlines (Sibir) has launched scheduled services between Moscow and Gomel, a city in the east of Belarus, thereby becoming the first Oneworld global airline alliance member to penetrate the air travel market of that country. The new service is currently operated three times a week, using 78-seat Embraer E170 aircraft, but the airline […]

Norwegian Continues Expansion in Ireland With First Route to Canada

Reading Time: < 1 minute Norwegian is continuing its Irish expansion with the launch of the carrier’s first route to Canada. Commencing 31st March 2019, the new daily service between Dublin and Hamilton – Toronto will mark the first direct flight between the two cities. Norwegian’s daily nonstop flights from Dublin to Hamilton – Toronto will be operated using brand new […]

Delta Air Lines Becomes Launch Operator of ATMOSPHÈRE Cabin

Reading Time: < 1 minute Bombardier Commercial Aircraft announced today that Delta Air Lines, Inc. of Atlanta, Georgia (Delta Air Lines) has signed a firm purchase agreement for 20 CRJ900 aircraft – becoming the launch operator of the new ATMOSPHÈRE cabin for CRJ Series regional jets. Based on the list price for the CRJ900 aircraft, the firm order is valued […]

Boeing Delivers First 737 MAX to Jet Airways

Reading Time: < 1 minute Boeing and Jet Airways today celebrated the delivery of the airline’s first 737 MAX airplane. Jet Airways will be first Indian carrier to fly the new and improved 737 airplane, which delivers a double-digit improvement in fuel efficiency and improved passenger comfort. “The new 737 MAX is a critical element to our future growth strategy […]

IATA Confirms Ryanair Is Europe’s Favourite Airline

Reading Time: < 1 minute Ryanair, Europe’s No 1 airline, welcomed confirmation from IATA that it remains Europe’s favourite airline after IATA’s latest World Airline Transport Statistics showed Ryanair carried more customers than any other European airline – and the most international customers of any airline. Ryanair carried over 128m customers last year (1 Jan – 31 Dec 2017), over […]

Nippon Cargo Grounds Planes to Sort Maintenance Record Discrepancy

Reading Time: < 1 minute Nippon Cargo Airlines Co. is temporarily grounding all of its aircraft effective immediately after discovering inaccurate maintenance records for one of its planes, the company said. Nippon Cargo, which has 11 jumbo aircraft and transports goods to the United States, Europe, China and Singapore, said Saturday it had suspended flights “until all maintenance records have […]

American Airlines Protests Innocence as it Settles US$45 Million Lawsuit

Reading Time: < 1 minute American Airlines Group (American), one of four U.S. carriers subject to an antitrust lawsuit over collusion to limit plane capacity and in so doing, driving up domestic airfares, has agreed to pay US$45 million to draw matters to a close. The carrier has admitted no wrongdoing and American’s spokesman Matt Miller advised that the carrier […]

Chinese Airline May Buy Into Kazakhstan’s Qazaq Air

Reading Time: 2 minutes Young Kazakhstan state-owned regional airline Qazaq Air and China Express Airlines, China’s first private regional airline, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on strategic cooperation in international regional passenger transportation, as well as the possible participation of the Chinese carrier in the privatisation of Qazaq Air, the Kazakh airline has revealed in a statement. […]

Costs of Additional Aircraft and Rising Pilots’ Salaries Double Aeroflot Losses

Reading Time: 3 minutes Net losses at Russia’s Aeroflot Group, which is made up of Aeroflot, Rossiya, low-cost carrier Pobeda and Aurora, more than doubled in the first quarter of this year. The deficit amounted to RUB 11.5 billion (US$195 million) in the period, mainly as a result of a significant fleet expansion programme and increases in pilots’ salaries, […]

Etihad Posts $1.5 Billion Loss for 2017 on Partners’ Failures

Reading Time: 2 minutes Etihad Airways improved its core operating performance by 22% in 2017, despite facing challenges including significant fuel cost increases, the entry into administration of its equity partners Alitalia and airberlin, and initial investment in a comprehensive business transformation programme. The airline increased revenues from core operations by 1.9% to US$ 6.1 billion (2016: US$ 5.9 billion), […]