Stories Collection

  1. Bombardier workers were back on the job May 5 following a strike that began April 15...
  2. An EAS Airlines BAC-111-500 enroute from Kano, Nigeria, to Lagos apparently lost pow...
  3. US Air Transportation Stabilization Board Executive Director Joseph Adams resigned A...
  4. Delta Air Lines said it received US DOT approval to codeshare between the US and Tai...
  5. Thomas Cook Airlines Belgium signed with FLS Aerospace for maintenance on its A320s ...
  6. Swiss said it had a first-quarter net loss of Sfrl90 million ($19 million), "an...
  7. Top 25 Airlines. February--2002 Airline RPKs (000) 1 American ...
  8. Few airports arguably would be willing or able to double passenger capacity in one f...
  9. Northwest Airlines will upgrade the remaining Saab 340 turboprop flight between Appl...
  10. In ordinary times, a 29% drop in attendance at one of the industry's seminal meeting...
  11. Boullioun Aviation Services leased a CFM56-powered 737-400 to Rome-based Air One in ...
  12. An EgyptAir 737-500 en route from Cairo crashed on a hillside in Tunisia May 7 in po...
  13. World Airways earned $4.9 million in the first quarter ended March 31 versus a $10.1...
  14. A China Northern Airlines MD-82 crashed into the water off northeastern China May 7 ...
  15. MyTravel, formerly known as Airtours, intends to start its own no-frills airline thi...
  16. Alitalia lost [euro]103 million ($93.9 million) during the first quarter versus [eur...
  17. Jet Fuel Prices. Spot cash markets (average) Nov. 56.58 Dec. 50.92 Jan. ...
  18. Since it was launched by Kimberly Clark Corp. in June 1984 with a pair of DC-9s and ...
  19. Atlantic Coast Airlines operating as United Express will offer six daily CRJ flights...
  20. International Lease Finance Corp. will lease six 777-200ERs to KLM with options to l...
  21. Emirates insiders indicated to ATW that the airline will place the largest order in ...
  22. American Airlines and swiss received DOT approval for their codeshare agreement that...
  23. All Nippon Airways is to create a holding company to handle corporate and operations...
  24. Belgian World Airlines withdrew its bid for Sobelair after pilots and cabin crew ref...
  25. KLM reported a net loss for the year to March 31 of [euro]156 million ($140 million)...
  26. Two years ago, a restructured AirTran Airways two priorities: Survive competition fr...
  27. Cabot Aviation arranged the lease of three F70s on behalf of bmi british midland. Th...
  28. Cathay Pacific ordered three A330-300s and three 777-300s. Boeing valued the 777s at...
  29. Alianza Summa the management and operating alliance of Aces, Avianca and SAM, was to...
  30. US MAJOR CARRIERS System traffic (*)--January-December 2001 ...
  31. Seddik Belyamani, recently retired as Boeing's top aircraft salesman. While he packe...
  32. An aircraft rollout is supposed to be an occasion for suspending doubts and second-g...
  33. American Airlines backed away from plans to sell its American Eagle Caribbean operat...
  34. LSG Sky Chefs Europa/Afrika, a unit of LSG Lufthansa Service Holding AG, was selecte...
  35. Lufthansa reacted bitterly to a preliminary appeals court ruling in April that uphel...
  36. GE Aircraft Engines is offering two variants of its CF680C2 to power Boeing's propos...
  37. Continental Airlines reported a first-quarter loss of $166 million compared to incom...
  38. Midwest Express upped its previously announced deal for 20 717s to 25 in a firm orde...
  39. US NATIONAL CARRIERS System traffic (*)-January-December 2001 ...
  40. With the recent final collapse of Air Afrique, Ethiopian Airlines has assumed sole p...
  41. Piedmont Hawthorne chose Randy Groom as senior VP-aircraft sales & maintenance-r...
  42. FedEx Corp. earned $120 million in the fiscal third quarter ended Feb. 28, up 11% fr...
  43. KLM, which last fall cancelled a preliminary agreement to form a "nose-to-tail&...
  44. Indian Airlines' board approved a 42-aircraft, $2.1 billion order for A320 family ai...
  45. US Majors Traffic March 2002 ...
  46. Delta Air Lines reported a loss to common shareholders of $401 million for the first...
  47. KLM ordered eight 777-200ERs and three 747-400ER freighters to replace 12 747-300s. ...
  48. British Airways' chronically unprofitable German subsidiary Deutsche BA is revamping...
  49. US REGIONAL & SPECIALTY CARRIERS Traffic--January--December 2001 ...
  50. Warranties, says Giro President and CEO Phil King, are manufacturers' commitments to...
  51. Boeing appointed CFO Michael M. Sears, Chief Technology Officer David O. Swain and C...
  52. Tunisair lost $35.6 million in 2001, widening 55% compared to the prior year when it...
  53. UK awarded 11 British airlines [pounds sterling]40 million ($57.7 million) in compen...
  54. China Eastern said it will buy a stake in Wuhan Airlines. It did not provide derails...
  55. John Robson, who initiated airline deregulation as chairman of the Civil Aeronautics...
  56. American Airlines rapped Gerard Arpey as president and COO, giving him responsibilit...
  57. Atlas Air said it will furlough 40 flight crew--about 4% of its workforce--as of May...
  58. The Regional airline industry is facing the loss of another manufacturer. Fairchild ...
  59. Goodrich was selected by Airbus to provide cockpit door video surveillance systems f...
  60. JAT General Director Predrag Vujovic said that the Yugoslav airline will cut 550 job...
  61. WORLD AIRLINE TRAFFIC - 2002 Pass. 02/01 RPKs 02...
  62. Ad of the Year Oslo Airport Campaign of the Year Boeing Commercial ...
  63. Ansett Worldwide appointed Harry Forsythe VP-marketing, Jaspal Jandu strategic econo...
  64. Deliberate actions by relief first officer Gameel el-Batouty caused the crash of Egy...
  65. THY Turkish Airlines reported that it generated earnings of 8.1 billion lira ($6.1 m...
  66. China Airlines named Philip Wei Hsing-hsiung, who has been with the company 30 years...
  67. Sun Country Airlines came under new ownership April 15 after a bankruptcy judge clea...
  68. Japan's Fair Trade Commission advised Japan Airlines and Japan Air System that they ...
  69. UPS opened its intra-Asia hub in the Philippines, which it says allows faster delive...
  70. Perry Flint The insolvency filing by Fairchild Dornier last month--less than t...
  71. The 11 passenger-carrying US Major airlines cut their spending on inflight food serv...
  72. AIRCRAFT OPERATING COSTS US passenger carriers All items in US$ per block hour, un...
  73. Long before Sept. 11 consigned countless maintenance-hungry aging jets to the parche...
  74. America West elected Derek Kerr senior VP-financial planning & analysis, Larry L...
  75. El Al achieved a positive cash flow of $14.8 million and narrowed its losses to $85....
  76. LTU plans to reduce overall capacity 20% as part of a gradual transition to an all-A...
  77. An Air China 767-200ER carrying 167 passengers and crew crashed into a hillside in S...
  78. Air Canada and Spanair are forming a partnership that includes reciprocal frequent-f...
  79. Swissair officially disappeared with the launch of new carrier Swissair effective Ma...
  80. FedEx Pilots Assn. members voted overwhelmingly to merge their union with the Air Li...
  81. AIRCRAFT DATA 737-100/200 737-300/700 DC-9-5...
  82. Component management and logistics. In a nutshell, that is SAS Component today, a dy...
  83. When people talk about the core competency of an organization, in effect they are ta...
  84. Infraero, the airport body in Brazil, and the state of Sao Paulo signed an agreement...
  85. Virgin Express said it posted a net profit of [euro]130,000 ($114,000) for 2001 vers...
  86. SIA Engineering Co., a division of Singapore Airlines, signed an MOU to buy a 25% st...
  87. United Airlines shut down its Avolar fractional business jet unit, stating that the ...
  88. The world's airlines are expected to lose $6 billion from scheduled international op...
  89. AIRCRAFT VALUES Aircraft Year Built 2002 (*) 2007 (**) 2012 (**) 2017 (**) ...
  90. Many people view the current US traffic downturn as a rare opportunity for the gover...
  91. Shuttle America, which operates for US Airways, reached a lease agreement on 18 Saab...
  92. Cintra's shareholders approved a corporate restructuring program intended to lead to...
  93. Air France, one of the only European airlines not to pursue substantial furloughs fo...
  94. Virgin Blue's long-awaited expansion plans in Australia took wing with a bid for as ...
  95. America West Airlines made broad changes to its fare structure including reducing th...
  96. Alitalia Group and Air France are to rake stakes in one another totaling up to 3% in...
  97. US FUEL COST AND CONSUMPTION January 2002 Total ...
  98. What a difference a year makes. In 2001, the Regional Airline Assn. spring meeting f...
  99. When Gol took to the skies in January 2001 as Brazil's first low-cost/low-fare airl...
  100. Malev placed a firm order with Bombardier for two CRJ200ERs. The Hungarian flag carr...
  101. Latin America may see 10% of its airlines disappear this year as the aftermath of Se...
  102. LOT Polish Airlines and Lufthansa signed an MOU April 5 in Warsaw initiating the pro...
  103. Australian Airlines will begin flying Oct. 27 with four 767-300s, Qantas CEO Geoff D...
  104. Hawaiian Airlines' and Aloha Airlines' planned merger collapsed in late March after ...
  105. Faced with the need to improve profitability by up to Sek4 billion ($390 million), S...
  106. Exchange Rate Currency units per US dollar Country/Currency 3/...
  107. It may not be an "official" London airport, but its proximity to the city ...
  108. Last fall, Alaska Airlines made a bold decision. At a time when most of its larger c...
  109. Atlantic Southeast Airlines, a wholly owned Delta Air Lines subsidiary, reached a fi...
  110. Greece strongly denied any violations of EU competition rules in 1994, 1998 and 2001...
  111. US MAJOR CARRIERS System traffic (*) - January--November 2001 ...
  112. When Delta Connection carrier Comair suffered through a three-month pilot strike las...
  113. April 1-7 FIDAE 2002: International Air & Space Fair, Los Cerillos Airport, Sant...
  114. Air France Cargo joined Global Freight Exchange last month and will make its product...
  115. US airlines are close to unveiling a third-party war risk self-insurance program tha...
  116. Continental Airlines also expects a "significant" loss in the first quarte...
  117. Thomas Cook Airlines Belgium received its operating certificate from the Belgian CAA...
  118. Air New Zealand reported a loss attributable to shareholders of the parent company o...
  119. The smart thing to do, most said, was to keep capacity restrained until fares starte...
  120. US NATIONAL CARRIERS System traffic (*)-January--November 2001 ...
  121. Talk training at Lufthansa and you soon have to get specific. On the one hand there ...
  122. Airborne tapped Canton D. Donaway to succeed Robert S. Cline, who is retiring, as ch...
  123. South African Airways launched the CFM56-5C/P engine incorporating an advanced 3-D a...
  124. Air Canada is increasing domestic capacity and adding two new destinations to its lo...
  125. American Airlines parent AMR Corp. said in a government filing that it expects to re...
  126. Crossair Group reported a consolidated loss of Sfr3l4 million ($186.2 million) for 2...
  127. Peter Sutch, widely admired and respected former chairman and MD of Cathay Pacific A...
  128. Exchange Rate Currency units per US dollar Country/Currency 2/28/02 12/31/01...
  129. AIRPORT TRAFFIC November 2001 Car...
  130. As the airline industry continues to grapple with the impact of the downturn, one co...
  131. Japan Airlines ordered its fifth CRJ200 on behalf of its wholly owned J-Air subsidia...
  132. The integration of Colombian carriers Avianca and Aces is scheduled to begin next mo...
  133. Midwest Express also may accelerate deliveries of 20 717s originally slated to arriv...
  134. US Airways named David Siegel, 40-year-old head of Avis Rent-A-Car, as president, CE...
  135. Finnair Group eked our net profits of [euro]8.9 million ($7.7 million) in 2001, nose...
  136. Cathay Pacific Airways recorded a profit attributable to shareholders of HK$657 mill...
  137. Top 25 Airlines January--December 2001 Airline RPKs (000) 1 Uni...
  138. US FUEL COST AND CONSUMPTION December 2001 Total ...
  139. The signs were good, all agreed, that a recovery of the air transport market was beg...
  140. Rockwell Collins Aviation Services signed a Dispatch l00SM contract with Atlantic So...
  141. LanChile lost $4.8 million in the fourth quarter ended Dec. 31, versus a $19.2 milli...
  142. AirTran Airways said it will rake delivery of 20 717s this year and retire 14 DC-9s,...
  143. Lufthansa Technik announced a cash tender offer to acquire the 27.3% of Hawker Pacif...
  144. Iberia posted a fourth-quarter net loss of [euro]88.3 million ($76.5 million) compar...
  145. Qantas posted a net profit of A$153.5 million ($79.4 million) for the six months end...
  146. Airbus released the first A380 technical manual. Available at www.airbus.com, it pro...
  147. WORLD AIRLINE TRAFFIC--2002 Pass. 02/01 RPKs 02/0...
  148. There is a saying in Hong Kong that the only people on the sleek express train to th...
  149. American Airlines' pilots, represented by the Allied Pilots Assn., proposed using ma...
  150. Varig may have new shareholders within a few months as the result of a historic mid-...
  151. United Airlines' mechanics ratified a five-year labor agreement on March 6, ending m...
  152. Landing charges at London's three main airports could rise by 39%, 38% and 25% respe...
  153. Air France reported a net loss of [euro]131 million ($114 million) for the third qua...
  154. Singapore Airlines Group MD and CEO Cheong Choong Kong said he intends to step down ...
  155. Star Alliance registered under German law in January as a limited liability company ...
  156. Bombardier leads the way in the larger regional jet market with 479 orders and optio...
  157. US REGIONAL & SPECIALTY CARRIERS Traffic-January-November 2001 ...
  158. The recent collapse-again--of US-UK bilateral talks, coupled with a long-anticipated...
  159. Northwest Airlines, which last month said it expects to be among the first US Major ...
  160. US Majors Traffic February 2002 ...
  161. Aeronavali reached an agreement with Boeing Airplane Services to perform the Advance...
  162. Lufthansa reported its first full-year loss in nearly 10 years and said it will skip...
  163. The UK's National Air Traffic Services in Feb. received a [pounds sterling]60 millio...
  164. "Forty-two years ago as a new and very junior JAL employee loading bulk cargo b...
  165. Fairchild Dornier, which planned to roll out its 728JET on March 21, said it is &quo...
  166. WORLD AIRLINE TRAFFIC--2001 Pass. 01/00 RPKs ...
  167. With a reign now entering its 34th year, Monarch Airlines has found that the keys to...
  168. Although the first flight of the Embraer 170 was delayed by about 75 days from the o...
  169. TRW Aeronautical Systems and Boeing Commercial Airplanes are working on a redesign o...
  170. European Airline Traffic Feburary 2002 ...
  171. AEA member airlines' Jan. passenger traffic was down 11.1% versus the same month in ...
  172. Delta Air Lines on March 14 eliminated "base commissions" to travel agents...
  173. Star Alliance and Aeroports de Paris signed an MOU to transform Terminal 1 at Charle...
  174. AIRCRAFT OPERATING COSTS US passenger carriers All items in US$ per block hour, un...
  175. Not since the 747 blitzed the Super DC-8s in the early 1970s has an air-craft promis...
  176. Vietnam Airlines leased two new GE90-94B-powered 777-200ERs from ILFC under five-yea...
  177. Sabre Holdings launched a $23 per share cash tender offer for the 15 million shares ...
  178. Monarch Airlines announced that MD Danny Bernstein, who will turn 60 this year, will...
  179. Asiana Airlines agreed to extend its service agreement with GE On Wing Support Korea...
  180. United Airlines parent UAL Corp. has changed course again with regard to its Avolar ...
  181. Korean Air said it expects 2002 to be its "turnaround" year and predicted ...
  182. AIRCRAFT DATA CRJ-100/200 EMB...
  183. Last January, 150 of Boeing's top executives flew to balmy Palm Springs for their an...
  184. WestJet said it raised gross proceeds before underwriter discounts and fees of C$82....
  185. Honeywell named David Cote president, CEO and a board member and said he will become...
  186. SN Brussels Airlines, the former DAT, said it intends to launch service to eight Afr...
  187. Pratt & Whitney, Singapore Technologies Aerospace and SIA Engineering launched T...
  188. European Commission on March 12 proposed a new regulation intended to counter what i...
  189. Jet Fuel Prices Spot cash markets (average) cents per gallon Sept. ...
  190. US NATIONAL CARRIERS System traffic (*) -- January-October 2001 ...
  191. AIRCRAFT VALUES Aircraft Year Built 2002 (*) 2007 (**) 2012 (**) 2017 (**) ...
  192. Temporary measures protecting US airliner cockpits from invasion must replaced by a ...
  193. Varig has moved forward on previously announced plans to hive off its maintenance op...
  194. European Airline Traffic January 2002 ...
  195. US Majors Traffic January 2002 ...
  196. Continental Airlines will rake delivery of only 20 of the 48 aircraft originally sla...
  197. Top 25 Airlines January-November 2001 Airline RPKs (000) 1 Uni...
  198. Aerospace Products Int'l. promoted Glen Golden to executive VP & COO, Distributi...
  199. When you ask All Nippon Airways' new president and chief executive, Yoji Ohashi, wha...