Latest Airlines news – Page 137
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NewsANA unit reveals cabin products; set for February 2024 launch
AirJapan, the newly-launched medium-haul unit of Japan’s ANA Holdings, will commence operations in February 2024, flying to unspecified points in Southeast Asia.
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NewsUS DOT fines Eurowings for holding passengers on aircraft for 5h after landing
The US Department of Transportation (DOT) has fined Eurowings $225,000 for keeping passengers on an aircraft for more than five-and-a-half hours after it had landed in Fort Lauderdale from Germany.
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NewsGlobal airline traffic edged closer to pre-Covid levels in January
Global airline passenger traffic in the first month of this year rose 67% compared with January 2022 and reached 84.2% of pre-pandemic levels for the corresponding period in 2019, according to IATA.
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NewsColombian transport authority steps in to manage Viva Air re-organisation
Colombia’s transportation superintendent, the oversight authority for the sector, has taken control of troubled budget airline Viva Air and is seeking to submit the carrier to a business recovery process. The superintendent states that the control decision sets out tasks including drawing up, within two days, an immediate improvement scheme ...
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NewsQatar to start introducing 737 Max 8s on short-haul network
Qatar Airways is to start introducing its own Boeing 737 Max jets, to support capacity growth in short-haul sectors. The airline says it recently had an “opportunity” to acquire a “small number” of 737 Max 8s, without elaborating on the details of the agreement. Qatar Airways says the twinjets – ...
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NewsCathay swings to 2022 operating profit on Hong Kong reopening
Cathay Pacific Airways swung to an operating profit of HK$3.5 billion ($450 million) in 2022, in a year marked by Hong Kong’s abrupt abandonment of travel restrictions related to the coronavirus pandemic.
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NewsQatar Airways A350 and A321neo orders restored to Airbus backlog
Qatar Airways’ order for 23 Airbus A350-1000s and 50 A321neos has been reinstated on the airframer’s backlog as part of its activity in February. Airbus had previously cancelled the orders during the legal row over skin-paint deterioration on Qatar’s A350 fleet. But the two sides eventually avoided a high-profile trial ...
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NewsANA to take over Nippon Cargo Airlines
Logistics specialist NYK has entered into an agreement to transfer all shares in Boeing 747 freighter operator Nippon Cargo Airlines (NCA) to Japanese carrier All Nippon Airways Holdings (ANA).
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NewsSAS recruits BA executive as chief operating officer
Former British Airways chief operating officer Jason Mahoney is to take up an equivalent role at Scandinavian carrier SAS. Mahoney will take up the post at SAS on 1 May, succeeding Simon Pauck Hansen who stepped down in January. While he served as chief operating officer at BA, Mahoney’s most ...
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NewsPortugal dismisses TAP chief and chairman
Portugal’s finance minister has dismissed TAP Portugal’s chairperson Manuel Beja and chief executive Christine Ourmieres-Widener following a report into a controversial severance payment to a former TAP administrator.
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NewsIcelandair backs domestic sustainable fuel initiative with offtake agreement
Icelandair is to support a domestic initiative to produce sustainable aviation fuel by provisionally agreeing to an offtake of the fuel. It has entered the memorandum of understanding with IdunnH2, a company established in 2020 which is developing a commercial-scale synthetic fuel facility in Helguvik Harbour, close to Icelandair’s base ...
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NewsCargojet pushes back 777 freighter conversions citing slowdown risk
Canadian operator Cargojet is to defer freight conversion of several Boeing 777s and 767 in response to forecasts of slower global economic growth rates. It had been planning to introduce eight 777s to expand its international charter reach and reinforce its domestic network. Cargojet allocated four of these, all 777-200s, ...
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NewsEl Al plots five-year fleet expansion including 737 replacement
Israeli flag-carrier El Al is considering options to increase its fleet by up to 13 aircraft to keep up with its targets for passenger traffic and market share over the next five years. It is aiming to align the expansion with plans to replace its older Boeing 737 jets from ...
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NewsAir Baltic leasing A320s to protect schedule from supply-chain snags
Latvia’s Air Baltic is to underpin capacity for the summer by wet-leasing four Airbus A320s, aimed at protecting the airline’s flights from possible supply-chain problems. The twinjets, which will be supplied by charter carrier Avion Express, will be configured with an all-economy layout comprising 180 seats. Air Baltic operates a ...
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NewsAir Nostrum-CityJet tie-up re-cleared by EU regulators
Spanish carrier Air Nostrum’s joint-venture tie-up with Irish operator CityJet has been re-cleared by European competition regulators, more than three years after initially being approved. The two airlines disclosed plans to combine and form a new regional airline group in 2018, operating under a holding company and aiming to offer ...
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NewsIsrael’s El Al returns to full-year profit
Israeli flag-carrier El Al has generated a full-year operating profit of $113 million, and ended the period with a net surplus of $109 million. The airline says it achieved a fourth-quarter net profit – a figure of $8.5 million – for the first time since 2015, although it points out ...
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NewsAir Baltic returns to full-year operating profit
Latvian carrier Air Baltic has returned to full-year operating profit, with a surplus of €32 million ($34 million), although its net result remained negative with a loss of €54 million. Air Baltic generated revenues of just over €500 million – a level similar to that achieved in the pre-crisis 2019 ...
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NewsSchiphol decision to cut flights faces legal challenge by IATA
IATA is to take legal action against the decision to cut capacity at Amsterdam Schiphol from the next winter season. The airport’s operator is cutting the number of annual flights to 460,000 from November this year, down from 500,000. Schiphol’s operator says this is a “necessary intermediate step” as it ...
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NewsKrasAvia to test prototype TVRS-44 under provisional acquisition deal
Russian operator KrasAvia is to become one of the initial customers of the proposed UZGA TVRS-44 turboprop with a provisional agreement for 20 aircraft. Under the agreement the carrier would take delivery of the twin-engined TVRS-44s – also known as the ‘Ladoga’ – over the course of 2026-30, through financial ...
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NewsLufthansa confirms strong rebound to profit in 2022
Lufthansa Group is projecting a “further significant improvement” in profit this year after confirming its return to the black in 2022 with an adjusted EBIT of €1.5 billion ($1.6 billion).