All Airlines articles – Page 271
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NewsWestJet names Diederik Pen as new COO
Canada’s WestJet has appointed former Wizz Air executive Diederik Pen to be its next chief operations officer.
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NewsKamchatka An-26 struck high terrain in poor weather: regional governor
Rescue personnel are having to deal with adverse weather and difficult terrain to reach the crash site of an Antonov An-26 which came down while attempting to land at Palana on the Kamchatka peninsula. The crash site is located 5km north of the town, says Kamchatka regional governor Vladimir Solodov, ...
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NewsNumber of US air travellers exceeded 2019 levels two days last week
More people travelled by air on two consecutive days around last weekend’s US Independence Day holiday weekend than did on the same days in pre-coronavirus 2019, the government agency responsible for airport security says.
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NewsAir Canada to reinstate more international routes
Air Canada is reinstating numerous international routes as the government of Canada begins to tentatively relax coronavirus-driven rules for inbound travellers.
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NewsAegean awarded state funds following successful capital increase
Aegean Airlines has received a €120 million ($142 million) grant from the Greek government, after completing a required €60 million share capital increase.
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Airline BusinessLow-cost players raise pressure in ‘groundhog day’ Italian market
Low-cost carriers may already hold a strong grip on the short-haul European market from Italy, but it is not stopping them from expanding their presence this summer.
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NewsWreckage from missing Russian An-26 located on Kamchatka coast
Russian investigators are opening a probe into the crash of an Antonov An-26 while it attempted to land at Palana airport in the Kamchatka peninsula. Wreckage from the twin-engined aircraft has been located on the coast, including parts of the fuselage on the shoreline and fragments in the water. Kamchatka ...
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Airline BusinessWhy supply, not demand, is the concern for airline recovery
CTAIRA analyst Chris Tarry on why key traffic drivers are likely to be unchanged by the pandemic, but travel classes and fares are a different matter
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NewsIndia permits carriers to fly 65% of pre-Covid domestic levels
India’s Ministry of Civil Aviation has issued a new order allowing airlines to raise domestic flight capacity to 65% of pre-Covid levels, up from 50% in June.
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NewsVietnam limits Ho Chi Minh City flights to curb new outbreak
Vietnam is suspending various domestic routes to and from Ho Chi Minh City to stem a recent Covid-19 spike in its capital.
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NewsSonar scan to aid recovery of ditched Transair 737’s flight recorders
US investigators are aiming to conduct a sonar scan of underwater wreckage and debris following the Transair Boeing 737-200 freighter crash off Hawaii on 2 July. The inquiry will carry out the side-scan sonar survey of the debris field to assess the location of the aircraft and its condition, as ...
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NewsCanada’s Porter to restart flights in September with federal aid
Porter Airlines intends to resume operations on 8 September, following months of delays as the regional carrier watched for signs that Canada would loosen travel restrictions and that demand for flights would return.
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Airline BusinessCorporate customers help airlines on journey to affordable sustainable fuel
Amid a profound shift towards sustainability in the wider economy, airlines are getting a helping hand from an unlikely source to help them pay for pricey sustainable aviation fuel
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Airline BusinessCovid-19 sees Air Seychelles operate in a world transformed
With a small fleet and tough geographic challenges, Air Seychelles has found itself in a completely new world during the coronavirus pandemic.
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NewsTransair 737-200 crash crew believed both engines were failing
Air-ground communications from the crew of a Boeing 737-200 which ditched off Honolulu on 2 July indicate the pilots were dealing with an engine failure and believed the other engine was also on the verge of failing. Shortly after the twinjet – operated by Rhoades Aviation for Transair – had ...
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OpinionWhy 777X certification push-back may be sign of change at FAA
US regulator deviated from its role with the certification of the 737 Max, ceding too much responsibility to Boeing, but reform is not impossible, argues safety expert John Goglia.
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Airline BusinessAirline Business Friday Briefing: Early call for aircraft orders
This is an industry that has to both plan for and bet on future demand, and while United’s order may feel like a resumption of business as usual for airlines, the reality is that the here and now remains firmly in crisis.
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Airline BusinessWhy airlines are worried about passenger-processing times at airports
In a twist that seems unfair given the dreadful time the industry has had over the past 16 months or so, there exists a genuine risk that even a minor uptick in traffic in some markets might threaten to overwhelm the passenger-processing capacity at airports.
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NewsKLM 737 take-off miscalculation incident went unnoticed for weeks
Investigators have disclosed that a serious take-off miscalculation incident, involving a KLM Boeing 737-800 at Lisbon, went unnoticed at the time and was only flagged weeks later by routine flight-data monitoring.
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NewsRyanair and Wizz record highest loads in June since summer 2020
European budget carriers Ryanair and Wizz Air in June recorded their strongest months for passenger traffic since last summer as markets in the region began to ease Covid travel restrictions.