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Cebu Pacific, RBS Aviation ink lease agreements for two new A320s

Cebu Pacific Air, now the largest airline in the Philippines, said Friday it signed six-year operating lease agreements with Dublin-based RBS...

DAE Capital cancels orders for 35 737s

Dubai Aerospace Enterprise's DAE Capital aircraft leasing unit continues its dramatic climb down from its ambitious 2007 launch. It followed...

Grounded Tiger Airways Australia to offer compensation to passengers

Passengers booked on flights through August on grounded Tiger Airways Australia are now entitled to a full refund after a deal brokered by the...

DOT calls for new airline fee reporting rules

US airlines generated $3.4 billion from baggage fees alone in 2010, but that's just one piece of a growing pie of ancillary revenue raised by the...

Report: AirAsia, ANA could jointly launch LCC

AirAsia appears to be moving to sign a deal with All Nippon Airways to launch a low-cost carrier, according to a report in Malaysia’s Star...

Officials to meet on Air India’s Star induction

Air India, Star Alliance and senior officials from the Indian government and the Civil Aviation Authority are scheduled to meet Monday to discuss...

Airline Routes

Finnair will launch twice-daily Helsinki-Lyon Embraer 190 service April 2. AirAsia X will move its Kuala Lumpur-London Stansted route to...

Boston incursion: Delta 767 clips ASA CRJ900

A Delta Air Lines Boeing 767 hit an Atlantic Southeast Airlines Bombardier CRJ900 Thursday night on a Boston Logan taxiway, causing damage in...

American Airlines to finance up to 35 737s in sale-leaseback deal

AerCap Holdings entered into a purchase-leaseback transaction with American Airlines to finance up to 35 Boeing 737-800s, including 29 firm...

Airports weigh in on ADP

As debate and lobbying on the controversial Air Passenger Duty in the UK intensified in May, Glasgow Prestwick Airport urged the UK government...

KLM biofuel first

KLM Royal Dutch Airlines told ATW’s Eco-Aviation Today that the first Amsterdam-Paris Charles de Gaulle return flight on June 29 th...

Australia’s carbon tax

The Australian government’s carbon dioxide tax announced on Sunday July 10 th will cost Qantas up to A$115 million ($124 million) a year...

Carbon tax war

The Chinese government has blocked an order from Hainan Airlines' subsidiary Hong Kong Airlines for 10 Airbus A380 aircraft, according to...

Lufthansa Airbus A340-300 observing Earth’s atmosphere

Lufthansa and the Jülich Research Centre (FZJ) have launched an innovative climate research project for the long-term observation of the...

Airbus taxi trials

Airbus, together with research partner German Aerospace Center (DLR), has trialed emission free ground operations using fuel cell technology....

Seeking justice on EU ETS

The lawsuit filed by the US Air Transport Assn., American Airlines and United Continental Holdings against the EU's inclusion of aviation in...

Virgin Australia engages in biofuel development partnership

Virgin Australia announced that it is partnering with Sydney-based Renewable Oil Corp., Vancouver-based Dynamotive Energy Systems Corp. and...

Operations & Maintenance

MTU Maintenance Hanover was selected by Chilean carrier Sky Airline to provide a Total Engine Care package for its V2500s under a five-year...

Boeing prepares for 737 production increase, opens new paint hangar

AerCap signed lease agreements for 16 aircraft in second quarter

AerCap Holdings had a busy second quarter in which it signed new lease agreements for 16 aircraft, delivered seven, purchased one Airbus A330...

Atlantic Southeast/ExpressJet renamed SureJet

Hainan Airlines to raise $1.2 billion via share placement

Hainan Airlines is expected to collect CNY8 billion ($1.24 billion) through the private placement of additional shares.

Norwegian swings to $9.6 million second-quarter profit; leases additional 787

Norwegian Air Shuttle, which is not leaving any doubt about its long-haul ambitions, signed a LOI Thursday with International Lease Finance Corp....

Finnair to conduct Amsterdam-Helsinki biofuel flights

Finnair said it will operate a scheduled flight partially powered by biofuel between Amsterdam and Helsinki next week, and will ultimately operate...

TSA to trial 'trusted travelers' program at select US airports this fall

US Transportation Security Administration said it will launch a pilot program this fall to test new airport screening strategies that aim, among...

Airline Routes

Jetstar announced new daily A330 Melbourne-Beijing service via its Singapore hub from Nov. 24; Beijing will be the airline’s ninth...

Ukraine International, S7 ink partnership agreement; UIA to launch Moscow flights

Ukraine International Airlines and oneworld member S7 Airlines signed a partnership agreement under which UIA will launch thrice daily...

Hawaiian Airlines: Tokyo market 'has bounced back'

Hawaiian Airlines gave an indication that the Japanese market may be on the path to recovery following March's devastating earthquake and...

ALC, Thomas Cook ink lease agreements for six A321s

Air Lease Corp. announced that UK-based Thomas Cook Airlines signed long-term lease agreements for six new Airbus A321-200s powered by CFM56...

FAA revokes operating certificate of Florida's Bimini Island Air

Ft. Lauderdale-based Bimini Island Air overstepped its bounds as an on-demand charter operator by offering and flying scheduled flights using a...

Etihad first-half 2011 revenue up 28%

Etihad Airways reported a 28% year-over-year rise in first-half revenue to $1.72 billion and reiterated it is on course to reach its goals of...

Ryanair to establish Manchester base

Ryanair will establish a base at Manchester Airport Oct. 2, initially with two Boeing 737-800s operating on 17 routes, and has plans to grow to...

Former CASA chairman warns Qantas' international operations in danger of bankruptcy

Former Australia Civil Aviation Safety Authority chairman Dick Smith—also one of the country's most controversial and outspoken entrepreneurs—has...

Ancillary advice: Know your strategy, and find inspiration outside the industry

News from Travel Technology Update: Among all the marketing concepts that have arisen in the airline industry, perhaps none has created more...

Boeing suspends 787 parts deliveries temporarily

Boeing has suspended deliveries of parts for the 787 from its suppliers for a month while mechanics catch up on work.

Embraer delivers 25 commercial aircraft, wins 18 E-Jet orders in second quarter

Embraer delivered 25 commercial aircraft in the second quarter, down 13.8% from 29 delivered in the 2010 June quarter.

Henan Airlines, grounded since last year's E-190 crash, expected to resume operations

Shenzhen Airlines subsidiary Henan Airlines, which has been grounded since a fatal Embraer 190 crash in August 2010, is expected to resume...

People

Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings Senior VP, General Counsel and Chief Human Resources Officer Adam Kokas was named chairman of the Cargo Airline...

Boeing, ANA complete 787 validation flights

Boeing said Tuesday that 787 validation flights conducted in concert with Dreamliner launch customer All Nippon Airways have been successfully...

Israir adds ATR 72-500s to fleet

Israir took delivery of its first ATR 72-500 with a second of the type slated to arrive later this month. The Israeli carrier will deploy the...

Tarom sinks to €80 million loss in 2010

Romania's Tarom incurred a net loss of €80 million ($113 million) in 2010, 41.6% worse than its 2009 deficit, Romanian media outlets...

US Airways reports high June load factor; reaches codeshare agreement with Aegean

US Airways recorded an "all-time record" of 87.1% for its average mainline June load factor, up 0.2 point over June 2010. It operated...

Spring Airlines accelerates Japanese expansion

Shanghai-based LCC Spring Airlines is accelerating the pace of its Japanese market expansion. The carrier operates thrice-weekly...

Qantas long-haul pilots vote for August industrial action

Qantas’ long-haul pilots on Monday voted overwhelmingly for industrial action—expected to take place in early August—to drive home demands for...

Air France to revise business model, operate more point-to-point routes

As part of a new Air France strategy to give no-frills carriers a run for their money and regain some of the market share lost to lower cost...

Qantas says it will pass Australia's carbon tax to passengers

The Australian government’s carbon dioxide tax announced Sunday will cost Qantas up to A$115 million ($124 million) a year and passengers will...

Lufthansa A321 partially powered by biofuel to enter service Friday

Lufthansa plans to start its scheduled biofuel flights Friday, launching a six-month trial in which an IAE V2500-powered Airbus A321 will operate...

Airline Routes

Aer Lingus will launch weekly Cork-Las Palmas service Oct. 30. It will launch Cork service to Barcelona (thrice-weekly) and Rome Fiumicino...

FAA proposes civil penalties against American Eagle, Atlantic Southeast

US FAA proposed a total of $275,500 incivil penalties against two regional airlines and an MRO provider. The agency called for a $77,500 fine...