Haiti-based Sunrise Airways has entered into the final phase of its application process toward initiating its first-ever flights to/from Jamaica. “Our journey to this point has been long, with some minor turbulence endured along the way, but I’m very pleased to say that we are now, indeed, on final approach to spread our wings to
Japan’s Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (MLIT) has granted an extension of the anti-trust immunity to include Iberia in the joint business between Japan Airlines, British Airways and Finnair, allowing the four airlines to cooperate commercially on flights between Europe and Japan. Iberia is expected to join the existing joint business between the
American Airlines (AAL) and the TWU-IAM Association announced they have reached an interim agreement to provide significant pay increases to the 30,000 maintenance, fleet service and other related employees represented by the TWU-IAM Association. The pay increases will go into place immediately while the negotiating committees continue working toward a joint collective bargaining agreement for
Norwegian reported that July traffic increased 15% and capacity was up 14% compared to the same period in 2015. The load factor was 94.6%, up 0.8 points.
Hawaiian Airlines has announced its system-wide traffic statistics for the month of July and year to date. Traffic for the month was up 6.4% compared to the previous year, while capacity was up 4.3%. The load factor for July was up 1.7 points to 86.2%
Hainan Airlines has filed an application with the U.S. Department of Transportation to launch an historic new route connecting Las Vegas to Beijing, the first-ever nonstop flight between Las Vegas and Mainland China, announced the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority. The service will begin December 2, 2016 and will initially operate Mondays, Wednesdays and
In the first half of 2016, the Fraport Group achieved revenue of just over €1.2bn. Although this represents a €17.1m (or 1.4%) decline year-on-year, it must be taken into account that a change in the Group’s scope of consolidated companies occurred in the previous business year. During 2015, Fraport sold 51% of its capital shares
Air Lease Corporation (AL) announced the placement of two Boeing 737-800 NG aircraft on long-term lease to SpiceJet (India), delivering in July and August 2016. One of the 737-800s is from ALC’s order book with Boeing and the second is a 2012-built 737-800 with winglets and sky interior. These placements will be ALC’s fourth and
Lufthansa Technik AG has launched a laser-based system for installation support (Augmented Reality) when equipping VIP aircraft cabins in the framework of its research and innovation projects. The mobile projection system can be adapted to suit every installation situation. It can be positioned and aligned flexibly and robustly in the aircraft fuselage. Components can therefore
Lufthansa Group, Honeywell Aerospace and Airbus have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to work jointly on the development of a runway safety solution combining Airbus’ Runway Overrun Prevention System (ROPS) and Honeywell’s SmartLanding technologies for Lufthansa Group’s fleet. This cooperation aims to set the highest standard in runway safety by combining the strengths of
