All articles by Ghim-Lay Yeo – Page 18
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LATAM Brazil finds bullet lodged in 767 wing
Brazilian authorities are investigating after a bullet was discovered lodged in the left wing of a LATAM Airlines Brazil Boeing 767-300ER.
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InselAir suspends routes amid financial troubles
Caribbean carrier InselAir will temporarily drop Quito from its network later this year, as it seeks to reduce costs while facing financial difficulties.
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Delta targets rival Alaska on more Seattle routes
Delta Air Lines will add seven new nonstop routes out of Seattle later this year, turning up the heat on rival Alaska Air Group ahead of the formal end to their partnership.
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Allegiant to arrive in Louisville
Allegiant Air will launch service to Louisville (Kentucky) in May, continuing with its strategy to grow into mid-sized cities.
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Sukhoi progresses on Interjet Superjet repairs
Sukhoi has completed repairs on six Interjet Superjet 100s, allowing the aircraft to return to operations.
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Boeing falls short of 2016 commercial orders target
Boeing fell short of its commercial aircraft orders goal for 2016, and booked a hundred fewer than in 2015.
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NewsGECAS orders another 75 737 Max 8s
GE Capital Aviation Services has placed an order for another 75 Boeing 737 Max 8 aircraft, worth $8.25 billion at list prices.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: JetBlue maps out network priorities
New York-based JetBlue Airways expects to launch international service from Long Beach in 2018, following a study earlier this year that boosted its case for overseas flights from the airport in California.
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NewsDOT unswayed by Delta-Aeromexico in JV decision
The US Department of Transportation has made final its conditional approval of anti-trust immunity for Delta Air Lines and Aeromexico, requiring slightly fewer slot divestitures from the airlines but mostly upholding its earlier proposed conditions.
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DOT finalises approval for Norwegian Air International
US regulators have finalised their approval for a foreign air carrier permit to Norwegian Air International, ending one of the most controversial disputes that have dominated the US airline industry in recent years.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: The rise of low-cost in Latin America
This time last year, the low-cost carrier was a minority in the Latin American airline industry. Aside from a handful of carriers in Mexico and Brazil, the low-cost airline was more the anomaly than norm in other countries.
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US carriers welcome Trump's pick for transportation secretary
US airlines have welcomed President-elect Donald Trump’s nomination of Elaine Chao as the next transportation secretary.
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NewsPICTURES: UK investigators deployed to Colombia Avro RJ crash
The UK Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) has deployed a team of three investigators to Medellin in Colombia, following the crash of a British Aerospace Avro RJ85 operated by charter carrier LAMIA Bolivia.
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Airline JVs crucial for Latin America to compete: CEOs
Latin American airlines believe that joint ventures are the way of the future, although they say regulators have not come around to the benefits of such partnerships.
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Synergy buys up to 18 ATR 72-600s for Argentine subsidiary
Avianca majority shareholder Synergy Aerospace has purchased up to 18 ATR 72-600s for a new subsidiary in Argentina that will be rebranded Avianca Argentina.
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Aeromexico and Delta to fight DOT on slot divestitures
Aeromexico and Delta Air Lines plan to fight conditions imposed by US regulators on the carriers' proposed joint venture, which would have required the airlines to divest 30 slot pairs at two key airports.
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Bombardier hopes to turn Latin tide towards smaller aircraft
Bombardier wants to convince Latin American airlines that bigger is not necessarily better, as it continues hunting for an anchor CSeries customer in Latin America and pushing its regional products.
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Aerolineas to phase out A340s by end-2018
Aerolineas Argentinas plans to phase out its fuel-guzzling Airbus A340s by end-2018 as the airline continues to work towards financial profitability under the ownership of a new government.
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Avianca chief prefers JV for strategic partner
Latin American airline group Avianca would prefer a desired strategic partnership to take the form of a joint venture, although the airline is also open to a capital investment, says chief executive Hernan Rincon.
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LCC for LATAM 'impossible': Cueto
LATAM Airlines Group has no plans to launch a separate low-cost carrier, with chief executive Enrique Cueto saying that such a move will be "impossible" due to the group's size.