All Airlines articles – Page 27
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NewsAmerican-operated regional jets clip wingtips on taxiway at Reagan National
Two regional jets operated by American Airlines touched wingtips on 10 April on a taxiway at Ronald Reagan National airport in Washington, DC.
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NewsDelta takes hard stance against paying tariffs for Airbus deliveries
Delta Air Lines does not anticipate paying tariffs on any Airbus aircraft scheduled to be delivered in 2025.
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Airline BusinessDelta yet to see ‘cracks’ in core premium and international markets as growth slows
Bringing tidings of weakening demand and stalling growth, Delta Air Lines executives say they remain relatively confident in the company’s critical premium and international markets.
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NewsDelta’s growth ‘largely stalled’ as economic gloom deepens
Chief executive Ed Bastian says first-quarter efforts focused on “protecting margins and free cash flow”, asserting that the company is built to weather times of economic difficulty.
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NewsGrounded Transair aims to resume operations after appeal against certificate revocation
Grounded US cargo carrier Transair is aiming to resume flights from Hawaii later this year, after a judging panel apparently dismissed an attempt to revoke the certificate of operator Rhoades Aviation. Rhoades Aviation says the US FAA’s complaint against the company has been “dismissed with prejudice” by National Transportation Safety ...
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NewsPhilippine Airlines confirms A321 retrofit, network expansion plans
Philippine Airlines has confirmed that it will begin cabin retrofit works on its Airbus A321s in May, as it unveils network expansion plans at its Cebu hub.
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Airline BusinessFull-year 2024 performance report for benchmark European airlines
Full-year 2024 data for Airline Business’s benchmark airlines in Europe shows the region’s carriers falling short of 2023 profitability, albeit the gap was reduced as fortunes improved in the second half of the year and their results were significantly ahead of 2019 earnings.
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NewsWestJet begins long-delayed integration of Sunwing’s 737s
WestJet Group recently started integrating Sunwing’s fleet of 18 Boeing 737s into its operations, roughly two years after acquiring the Canadian leisure carrier – and more than three years removed from the deal’s announcement.
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Airline BusinessQ4 2024 performance report for benchmark Asia-Pacific airlines
Full fourth-quarter 2024 data from Airline Business’s benchmark airlines in Asia-Pacific shows a strong year-end rebound in operating profit profitability after two consecutive quarters of decline.
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NewsTed Christie is out as Spirit Airlines CEO
Longtime Spirit Airlines chief executive Ted Christie has departed the company, stepping down from his role as CEO on 7 April in a move coming as Spirit navigates an corporate overhaul intended to stem financial losses.
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NewsUS regional airlines Mesa and Republic to combine, with Republic taking control
US regional airline company Republic Airways Holdings plans to combine with financially struggling competitor Mesa Air Group to create a new publicly traded company that will be controlled by Republic’s management team.
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NewsE190 low-speed climb incident spurs Alliance to act on crews’ recurrent take-off mode error
Australian carrier Alliance Aviation has taken action to stop recurrent speed-mode selection errors by Embraer crews, after an incident in which pilots of an E190 initially failed to notice their jet was slowing as it climbed away from the Solomon Islands. The first officer, who was flying the jet from ...
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Airline BusinessWeek 15 2025: Tariff uncertainty looms large as earnings season kicks off
Fresh off the news that US president Donald Trump is imposing sweeping tariffs globally, an anxious airline sector braces for impact, just as earnings season kicks in.
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NewsEVA Air finalises additional A350, A321neo orders
Taiwan’s EVA Air has firmed its commitments for six Airbus A350-1000s and three A321neos, in an orderbook top-up first disclosed in March.
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Airline BusinessAirline news digest: 31 March - 4 April 2025
Our regular rundown of the biggest airline stories from the past seven days.
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Airline BusinessBusting the airline demand management myths
Sustainability policies that do not reflect the reality of growth trends worldwide risk ‘carbon colonialism’, writes SimpliFlying’s Shashank Nigam
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NewsUS leisure market likely to endure ‘downward pressure on demand’: Sun Country CEO
Cost-conscious air travellers will likely tighten spending on vacations as a result of US-imposed tariffs roiling global markets, from the perspective of Sun Country Airlines chief Jude Bricker.
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NewsUnited to launch new routes to Asia and Australia this year
United Airlines is planning to launch new flights this year to Australia and Asia as part of a broader effort by the carrier to deploy new widebody jets to more far-flung destinations.
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Airline BusinessAir cargo players watch on nervously as Trump upends world trade
While trade tensions and their consequences could have a significant impact on passenger and cargo markets, it is the latter that stand most immediately exposed to US President Donald Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ announcements.
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Airline BusinessMichael O’Leary on Boeing quality, Max 10, fares, and ‘fat, dumb and happy’ peers
A year on from Michael’s O’Leary’s complaints about finding “spanners under floorboards” in Ryanair’s new Max jets, and the airline’s group chief executive is feeling more upbeat about Boeing’s progress.