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Chile’s JetSmart and American Airlines launch strategic alliance
Chile’s JetSmart and American Airlines have launched a strategic alliance and will begin to sell codeshare flights between the United States and Chile
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Star Alliance names Hawaiian Airlines executive as new chief
Star Alliance has named Theo Panagiotoulias as its new chief executive in succession to Jeffrey Goh, who stepped down at the end of last year.
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‘An aircraft delivered six months late is considered on time’
IATA has upgraded the severity of the risks posed by supply-demand imbalances in its latest industry forecast, as factors such as aircraft delivery delays weigh on the airline sector.
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JetBlue boss urges airlines to sign up to IATA diversity goals
JetBlue chief executive Robin Hayes is urging airlines to sign up to IATA’s 25by2025 gender balance initiative, arguing that the industry cannot afford to miss out on talent.
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Thai to add A321neos from mid-2025: CEO
Thai Airways International will take five Airbus A321neos on lease from the second-half of 2025, and is in the final stages of securing another five examples.
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IATA doubles industry profit projection for 2023
IATA now expects the airline industry to make a net profit of $9.8 billion this year, a doubling of its initial projection for sector profitability. The airline association had initially projected the industry would make a profit of $4.7 billion, but disclosing the updated forecast at its AGM in Istanbul ...
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IATA to hold 2024 AGM in Dubai
IATA is to hold its next annual general meeting, the 80th running of the event, in Dubai in 2024.
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Riyadh Air narrowbody order in ‘not too distant future’: Douglas
Riyadh Air will finalise a narrowbody aircraft order shortly, supplementing the Boeing 787s the Saudi Arabian start-up committed to earlier this year.
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Conesa eyes transborder capacity lift as hopes rise for Mexican safety upgrade
Aeromexico has a “comprehensive plan” to add capacity on its transborder routes as chief executive Andres Conesa grows hopeful that the long wait for the US FAA to restore Mexico’s Category 1 safety rating status is close.
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Riyadh Air unveils first of two liveries
Ambitious Saudi Arabian start-up Riyadh Air has unveiled the first of two liveries it will deploy as preparations continue for its launch of flights in 2025.
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American Airlines’ pilot union APA rejects potential merger with ALPA
The board of directors of the Allied Pilots Association (APA), the union representing flight deck crew at American Airlines, rejected a proposal to join the much larger and more-powerful Air Line Pilots Association, International (ALPA) union.
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IATA’s Owens Thomsen on why connectivity is key to sustainable development
IATA senior vice-president, sustainability and chief economist Marie Owens Thomsen sees air travel as an 'essential ingredient' to helping achieve the primary goal of sustainable development -- to eradicate poverty
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Crosswind during go-around pushed Hop E170 into A320’s take-off path
French investigators have detailed a serious airprox incident which occurred at Paris Charles de Gaulle when an Embraer 170, executing a go-around, drifted into the climb path of an Airbus A320 departing simultaneously from the parallel adjacent runway. While descending to runway 26L on 21 October 2020 – during a ...
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Wizz and Frontier backer Indigo invests in US sustainable-fuel start-up
US private equity firm Indigo Partners is among the participants in a consortium investing $50 million in a start-up company concentrating on sustainable aviation fuel production. The company, CleanJoule, is based in Salt Lake City and says it is working to develop a “breakthrough technology” to offer “superior and cost-effective” ...
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Aerolineas Argentinas to launch flights to USA from Aeroparque
Argentine flag carrier Aerolineas Argentinas will begin operating flights to the USA from Aeroparque Jorge Newbery – the first intercontinental connections to depart from Buenos Aires’ downtown airport, rather than the much larger Ezeiza Ministro Pistorini International airport on the outskirts of the city.
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JetBlue agrees to give Spirit’s LaGuardia assets to Frontier
As part of its bid to acquire Spirit Airlines, New York-based JetBlue Airways has entered a divestiture agreement to give Spirit’s gates and slots at New York’s LaGuardia airport to rival ultra-low cost carrier Frontier Airlines.
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Lufthansa resumes A380 flights after three-year break
German carrier Lufthansa today resumed passenger flights with Airbus A380s for the first time since the pandemic.
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Czech Airlines revives Airbus A220-300 plan with Air Lease deal
Czech Airlines is to add its first Airbus A220s next year, after agreeing to take four of the jets from lessor Air Lease.
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Air Algerie seals A330neo and A350 order
Air Algerie has finalised an order for five Airbus A330-900s and a pair of A350-1000s as part of the carrier’s wider fleet modernisation plans
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Lufthansa plans long-haul growth for ITA
Lufthansa expects ITA Airways’ long-haul fleet to reach 24 aircraft by 2027 under a plan to develop the Italian carrier’s business from Rome Fiumicino.