Stories Collection

  1. UK's new Swanwick ATC center, originally due to open in 1996, began operating Jan. 2...
  2. ARINC and RQuest Product Development introduced a cockpit security system that they ...
  3. SkyTeam transatlantic alliance received final approval from DOT for US antitrust imm...
  4. Long regarded by observers--and indeed, by many members--as an "ineffective&quo...
  5. Big Sky Airlines, an affiliate of Northwest Airlines, discontinued service to Hobbs,...
  6. Relaunch of Transbrasil, grounded since last Dec., appeared unlikely at press time f...
  7. Reduced Vertical Separation Minima took effect at 0001 GMT Jan. 24 in 41 countries a...
  8. Boeing signed a deal for Japan Aircraft Industries and Japan Aircraft Development to...
  9. Delta Air Lines deferred delivery of 39 aircraft, or 75% of the 52 planned for 2002-...
  10. American Airlines parent AMR Corp. is furloughing 500 American Eagle workers, includ...
  11. When the bulldozers began preparing the site for Northwest Airlines' much-needed and...
  12. Embraer signed an agreement to acquire the operating assets of Celsius Aerorech, a c...
  13. TAM suspended its service to Frankfurt, Zurich and Montevideo, one of its daily freq...
  14. Bmi british midland's new lowfare airline, bmibaby, will fly a dedicated fleet of 73...
  15. US NTSB recommended that FAA require aircraft manufacturers and airlines to "es...
  16. Air Canada's fourth-quarter loss widened 39% to C$380 million ($237.5 million) as tr...
  17. US MAJOR CARRIERS System traffic (*)-January-October 2001 ...
  18. Regional airlines continue to be the success story of the aviation industry. Last ye...
  19. They rolled out the red carpet in Atlanta to greet the newest addition to the Atlant...
  20. Garuda Indonesia President Abdulgani submitted his resignation to the government on ...
  21. TAP Air Portugal's preliminary net loss for 2001 narrowed 56% versus the previous ye...
  22. Frontier Airlines posted a $908,623 net profit for the fiscal third quarter ended De...
  23. Negotiators for United Airlines and the International Assn. of Machinists & Aero...
  24. WORLD AIRLINE TRAFFIC -- 2001 Pass. 01/00 RPK...
  25. AIRPORT TRAFFIC October 2001 Carg...
  26. The 10 US Major passenger airlines lost $7.38 billion last year, far surpassing the ...
  27. Ansett Worldwide leased eight 767-300ERs to Hawaiian Airlines. Three of the aircraft...
  28. Qantas is deferring delivery of three of seven A330-200s ordered in late 2000 and pu...
  29. Iberia's 2001 net profit plunged 75% versus a year earlier to [euro]50.2 million ($4...
  30. Alaska Air Group said President William S. Ayer will assume the additional post of C...
  31. At a time when many airlines are scrambling to defer, delay and cancel aircraft deli...
  32. Malaysian Airlines System plans to split its international and cargo services from i...
  33. Ansett's prospective new owners secured an MOU with Airbus for delivery of 30 A320s ...
  34. US FUEL COST AND CONSUMPTION November 2001 Total ...
  35. Commission caps and cuts, a push to the Web, the rise of online agents and consolida...
  36. Ryanair ordered 100 737-800s and took options on 50 more. The order and options are ...
  37. Air New Zealand named Ralph Norris, former head of AS Bank, to fill the vacant CEO's...
  38. Swissport, Swissair Group's global ground-handling unit, was sold for Sfr580 million...
  39. AirTran Holdings, parent of the airline, posted a $14.2 million fourth-quarter net l...
  40. As expected, the European Court of Justice's advocate general said that eight Europe...
  41. Fairchild Dornier and Lufthansa Technik Logistik GmbH have joined to set up spare pa...
  42. US REGIONAL & SPECIALTY CARRIERS Traffic--January-October2001 ...
  43. By several conservative estimates, surplus spare parts are tying up more than $10 bi...
  44. Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings posted a fourth-quarter net loss of $8.1 million versus...
  45. Singapore Airlines said it reached an agreement with Boeing to defer delivery of two...
  46. Describing SAS Group's airline situation as "precarious," CEO Joergen Lind...
  47. WestJet posted a fourth-quarter net profit of C$9.4 million ($5.8 million), up 14% c...
  48. On the heels of reporting a loss of [pounds sterling]144 million ($204.8 million) fo...
  49. Air Tahiti Nui leased an A340-300 from ILFC far seven years. Air-India leased a CF6-...
  50. AIRCRAFT OPERATING COSTS US passenger carriers All items in US$ per block hour, un...
  51. When Crossair Flight 3597 departed from Berlin Tegel Airport on its way to Zurich la...
  52. El Al, which lost $109 million in 2000 and originally forecast up to $150 million in...
  53. ANA Group intends to postpone delivery of three of nine 767-300s slated to arrive in...
  54. KLM posted a [euro]94 million ($80.8 million) net loss for the fiscal third quarter ...
  55. American Airlines intends to recall 400 flight attendants as it rebuilds capacity, w...
  56. By now most of ATW's readers, at least those who travel in the US, are familiar with...
  57. JetBlue Airways, a winner of ATW's Market Development Award for 2002, announced an i...
  58. AIRCRAFT DATA MD-80 A320 A31...
  59. The promises of increased security and shortened airport delays through use of a &qu...
  60. A TAME 727-100 en route from the Ecuadorian capital of Quito to Tulcan crashed into ...
  61. Japan Airlines and Japan Air System estimate their proposed merger will reduce costs...
  62. Air France said that losses for the fiscal third quarter ended Dec. 31 would be &quo...
  63. Despite losing $1.97 billion last year and anticipating a "significant loss&quo...
  64. Exchange Rate Currency units per US dollar Country/Currency 1/31/02 11/30/01...
  65. Airline of the Year Japan Airlines Japan Airlines' new vision and newly account...
  66. Airbus grabbed the top spot for large aircraft orders away from Boeing in 2001, achi...
  67. Technical excellence, cost and turnaround time, cornerstones of engine maintenance/r...
  68. FedEx's fiscal second-quarter earnings soared 26% to $245 million versus $194 millio...
  69. Air Lib is slated to receive a [euro]30.5 million ($27.3 million) "exceptional&...
  70. Air New Zealand warned the government to resist overtures by Qantas for a transtasma...
  71. US DOT will require that the 11 largest US passenger airlines begin collecting and d...
  72. The 10 US Major passenger airlines saw their combined passenger traffic (RPMs) decli...
  73. US NATIONAL CARRIERS System traffic (*)-January-September 2001 ...
  74. US MAJOR CARRIERS System traffic (*) -- January-September 2001 ...
  75. All eyes in the world airline industry will be looking at Asian Aerospace 2002 when ...
  76. SNEA, the association of Brazilian airlines, is forecasting a 6% increase in domesti...
  77. Iberia said it received approval from Spanish labor authorities to lay off 2,515 emp...
  78. Ansett's survival prospects received a significant boost when a multinational airlin...
  79. FAA issued a final rule establishing standards for reinforcing cockpit doors and req...
  80. Struggling LTU International Airways averted insolvency in a lastditch financing dea...
  81. Airport traffic September 2001 C...
  82. Last fall, convoluted but determined maneuvering to convert Crossair into a new inte...
  83. Varig and Boeing signed a $370 million sale/leaseback deal involving three 737-300s ...
  84. European Commission intends to approve the alliance between Lufthansa and Austrian A...
  85. All Nippon Airways plans to shift its focus away from long-range international route...
  86. DOT amended its rules for compensating airlines for Sept. 11 related losses and said...
  87. Former Continental Airlines President and COO Greg Brenneman, who left the airline l...
  88. US fuel cost and consumption October 2001 Total ...
  89. We embarked in 2000 on a program to overhaul every aspect of our operations. Our res...
  90. With the apparent exception of revenue managers at many network airlines, there appe...
  91. Avianca, its wholly owned subsidiary SAM and domestic rival Aces received approval f...
  92. DATs official restart appears secured after all 53 creditors of Sabena Interservice ...
  93. Malaysia Airlines reached agreements to sell its headquarters and airport facilities...
  94. President Bush used a recess appointment to name John Magaw to head the new Transpor...
  95. Bmi british midland is to launch a no-frills airline based at East Midlands Airport....
  96. US regional & specialty carriers Traffic-January-September 2001 ...
  97. EasyJet certainly has healthy ambitions. The Luton-based budget airline, which was l...
  98. Can the industry apply any lessons from the previous downturn? For the past sev...
  99. AAR Corp. and Air France Industries formed a joint venture, Spairwise, to provide fu...
  100. KLM said in early Jan. that it could reach a limited codesharing deal with British A...
  101. Qantas's maintenance workers overwhelmingly voted to continue their industrial actio...
  102. United and Northwest Airlines introduced interline e-ticketing. The agreement will b...
  103. US DOT on Dec. 21 tentatively decided to grant antitrust immunity to the SkyTeam tra...
  104. Delta Connection carrier Atlantic Southeast Airlines is expanding and enhancing its ...
  105. Swissair Group is selling its Restorama and Rail Gourmet subsidiaries, along with pa...
  106. World airline traffic -- 2001 Pass. 01/00 RPKs ...
  107. Air Canada named Mary Jordan senior VP-international & British Columbia. A...
  108. European airline traffic December 2001 ...
  109. British Airways CEO Rod Eddington warned that the airline faces another tough year d...
  110. L-3 Communications said it agreed to buy PerkinElmer's explosive detection systems b...
  111. Montreal-based Transat plans to rake a C$105 million ($65.6 million) writeoff, mainl...
  112. America West Airlines received approval for a federal loan guarantee from the US Air...
  113. Kendell Airlines, Australia's largest Regional, plans to slash a third of its workfo...
  114. FACTS & FIGURES AIRCRAFT VALUES Aircraft Year Built 2001 (*) 2006 (**)...
  115. ILFC CEO Steven Udvar-Hazy assumed the additional title of chairman, replacing Lesli...
  116. Thales Avionics said it was selected by Boeing as one of two preferred airborne came...
  117. Japan Air System awarded Pratt & Whitney Aftermarket Services a 10-year, $204 mi...
  118. GE Engine Services agreed to buy privately held Unison Industries, which makes and s...
  119. Canada 3000 planners are in the final stages of securing investors for a two-phase p...
  120. J.A. Donoghue Cycles are part of the weave of business. In the airline business...
  121. Embraer signed an agreement to acquire the operating assets of Celsius Aerotech, whi...
  122. Citizens of Canton Zurich in a special referendum approved by a 55% margin a Sfr300 ...
  123. AeroMexico leased an MD-87 from Wells Fargo Bank Northwest. Sigma Aircraft Managemen...
  124. Carriers big and small increasingly are turning to the International Air Transport A...
  125. Air Canada agreed to a C$565 million ($354.9 million) sale/leaseback deal with GE Ca...
  126. Lufthansa signed a 3.5-year, $40 million agreement with SITA for design, development...
  127. Asiana Airlines said it aims to sell its entire 59% stake in ground-handling unit As...
  128. ARINC's next-generation VHF Digital Link Mode 2 system was used for the first time i...
  129. Air Canada said it will expand its low-fire Tango network by adding three new destin...
  130. Congress in its final budget agreement appropriated an additional $50 million for th...
  131. Airbus's 100-seat A318, the smallest member of the A320 family, made its maiden flig...
  132. It begins on the northern edge of Lake Superior and spreads north of Thunder Bay. I...
  133. Delta Air Lines issued a $730.5 million European Enhanced Equipment Trust Certificat...
  134. Floris J. van Pallandt, CEO of KLM uk Ltd., which operates the brands KLM uk and buz...
  135. EVA Airways' new president, Kitty Yen, said she expects the airline's revenues to in...
  136. Boeing received an FCC license that will allow airline passengers to transmit and re...
  137. Southwest Airlines said it will rake delivery of two 737-700s early this year and re...
  138. Mesa Air Group reached an agreement with lessors to provide financing for up to 20 n...
  139. Honeywell was selected to provide the flight management system on the A380 in a deal...
  140. Aegean Cronus Airlines is Greece's largest private carrier, operating 120 daily flig...
  141. Amerijet International said it emerged successfully from Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorg...
  142. The EC proposed regulations to strengthen the rights of air passengers who are denie...
  143. Delta Air Lines signed a codeshare agreement with Taiwan-based China Airlines. Under...
  144. Dawson Ransome died Jan. 9 at the age of 8l. In an aviation career that encompassed ...
  145. US FAA restored a Category 1 safety raring to South Korea. The agency downgraded the...
  146. Christine Tsai-yi Tsung was appointed president and CEO of China Airlines in July 20...
  147. CNF Inc. announced Dec. 5 that it would not relaunch Emery Worldwide Airlines, which...
  148. All Nippon Airways plans to reduce its staff by about 1,000 or about 9% by March 31,...
  149. United Airlines will defer deliveries of 43 aircesft through 2003, a move it expects...
  150. Finnair posted a third-quarter loss before extraordinary items of [euro]16.6 million...
  151. Crossair, following the Nov. 24 crash of an Avro RJ-100 on approach to Runway 28 at ...
  152. The term "Asian miracle" once was used to describe the phenomenal performa...
  153. Airbus said it will freeze prices for spare parts, goods and services for six months...
  154. Frontier Airlines is adding 20 new markets to its codeshare agreement with Great Lak...
  155. Boullioun Aviation Services and its Singapore Aircraft Leasing Enterprise affiliate ...
  156. Air Transport World's contributing editor for the Indian subcontinent, Kamlakar Mhat...
  157. US Airways President and CEO Rakesh Gangwal, who held the positions at both the grou...
  158. UK airlines will get a u40 million ($58 million) compensation package for revenue lo...
  159. Air France earned [euro]88 million ($78.1 million) in the fiscal second quarter ende...
  160. "We have had to look inward at ourselves, and after Sept. 11 we have had to loo...
  161. Virgin Atlantic Airways, launch customer for the A340-600, is in talks with Airbus o...
  162. SkyWest and Air Wisconsin have completed reinforcement of all cockpit doors on their...
  163. Atlantic Southeast Airlines, a Delta Connection carrier, will expand service between...
  164. Finnair agreed to lease two DC-9-51s to Aeropostal Alas de Venezuela. Separately, We...
  165. US Majors Traffic November 2001 ...
  166. President Bush nominated John Magaw to serve as the first undersecretary of transpor...
  167. Airtours Group, the UK leisure travel and tourism giant, renamed itself My Travel Gr...
  168. Caption: Concorde returned to service with British Airways (above) and Air France in...
  169. Measured against the catastrophe being endured on the passenger side of the business...
  170. Lufthansa's supervisory board endorsed an executive board proposal to order 15 A380-...
  171. Mesa Air Group said that trained security personnel will be onboard selected America...
  172. Aerolineas Argentinas resumed its prime long-haul Buenos Aires-Madrid daily service ...
  173. Rockwell Collins said its Programmable Audio and Video Entertainment System, or PAVE...
  174. American Airlines still "is losing millions of dollars every day" and will...
  175. TAP Air Portugal said it posted a preliminary net loss of [euro]43 million ($38.3 mi...
  176. UAL's Avolar business jet subsidiary opened for business last month after signing tw...
  177. "Survival" is the goal for most airlines in 2002, a year in which ATW proj...
  178. Skyway Airlines, a wholly owned subsidiary of Midwest Express Airlines, ordered four...
  179. Varig posted a R608.3 million ($250 million) loss for the first nine first months of...
  180. Honeywell said it has begun working with Iridium Satellite to develop a satellite co...
  181. ATW Senior Editor Geoffrey Thomas, who is based in Perth, won the prestigious Austra...
  182. Go earned [pounds sterling]16.9 million ($24.1 million) before taxes in the half-yea...
  183. Boeing on Dec. 13 said it will maintain production of the 717, albeit at a reduced r...
  184. As the New Year dawns, it is only natural to have sincere concerns about the dismal ...
  185. Bombardier sold three 50-passenger Q300s to Qantas Airways. The order is valued at $...
  186. Transbrasil ceased operations Dec. 4 when it ran our of cash to pay for fuel for its...
  187. A GE90-115B set a thrust record during its initial ground tests by reaching 120,316 ...
  188. Vanguard Airlines applied for $60 million in federal loan guarantees as part of a re...
  189. European Airline Traffic November 2001 ...
  190. Ryanair chose Frankfurt-Hahn Airport as its second continental European base after B...
  191. European Commission, as expected, formally eliminated its controversial hushkit nona...
  192. A public relations campaign called the Regional Air Service Initiative has been laun...
  193. Pratt & Whitney Cenco received a contract valued at more than $13 million from M...
  194. Boeing Commercial Airplanes plans to develop and test an electric-powered demonstrat...
  195. Midway Airlines, which announced plans to liquidate Sept. 12 but recendy was revived...
  196. French government said that the third Paris airport will be built at Chaulnes-Verman...
  197. Air Lib, successor of bankrupt AOM Air Liberte, which was 49% owned by the former SA...
  198. Trans World Airlines disappeared as an airline brand Dec. 8-9 as its TW code was rep...
  199. Clearly buoyed by one of the most spectacular orders ever placed by an airline at an...