Alaska reported a 6.4% increase in traffic on a 1.9% increase in capacity compared to January 2011. This resulted in a 3.5-point increase in load factor to a January record of 83.6%. Horizon reported a 16.4% decline in January traffic on a 17.7% decline in capacity compared to January 2011. This resulted in a 1.2-point increase in […]
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US Airways Group released that mainline traffic for the month of January 2012 was up 3.8% versus January 2011, while mainline capacity was up 3.1%. Mainline load factor was a record 78.8% for the month of January, up 0.5 points versus January 2011.
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The European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) issued its Type Certificate A-176 for the Sukhoi Superjet 100 (model RRJ-95B). This certificate recognizes that the SSJ100 aircraft demonstrated compliance with the EASA airworthiness and environmental requirements. The recognition allows the European airlines, as well as those airlines operating in countries which use EASA regulations as a reference
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Hungarian airline Malev ceased flying with debts of HUF60bn ($270m) after the government withdrew financing. Malev, placed under bankruptcy protection this week, halted all flights at 6 a.m. on Febr. 3rd, in Budapest. Malev’s CEO Lorant Limburger in a statement said that the carrier’s cash-flow became “untenable” after service providers “lost faith” and the European Commission
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Irish headquartered Eirtech Aviation, continues its expansion with the addition of two newly built narrow body state of the art hangars located in Ostrava, Czech Republic. Founded in 1999 Eirtech Aviation underwent an ownership change in 2009 following an MBO from Lufthansa Technik. The company primarily offers aircraft repainting, interior refurbishment, aviation graphics, engineering and technical
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