Stories Collection

  1. America West Airlines and US Airways appeared to be moving close to a merger agreeme...
  2. Chile and Paraguay signed a broad open skies agreement that includes cabotage for bo...
  3. Austrian Airlines Group's first-quarter loss widened to 80.8 million [euro] ($104.3 ...
  4. Boeing and Mxi Technologies said Aloha Airlines completed installation of several mo...
  5. President Bush nominated Edmund Hawley as the next head of the Transportation Securi...
  6. Styrian Spirit, a Regional carrier based in Austria, will take delivery of a new CRJ...
  7. ALTHOUGH THE SKY-HIGH energy prices of the past 18 months have created major hardshi...
  8. WHEN THE NEWEST commercial airport terminal in the US opens this month, Ft. Myers' a...
  9. US Fuel Cost And Consumption February 2005 Total ...
  10. US Major Carriers Domestic Traffic *--January 2005 P...
  11. For the first time, Mesaba Airlines has landed a deal to operate CRJs as a Northwest...
  12. United Airlines' bid to terminate and replace pension plans covering 120,000 current...
  13. Calgary-based Westlet, impacted by high fuel prices and very low yields, lost C$9.6 ...
  14. CSA Czech Airlines reported a final net profit of 324.2 million koruna ($13.8 millio...
  15. Alaska Airlines Pilots took a 26% pay cut and will contribute more to their health c...
  16. FACT FILE US Majors Traffic April 2005 ...
  17. ARINC was selected to provide advanced passenger check-in systems and related techno...
  18. Several Chinese airlines formalized agreements with Airbus for 30 aircraft. As previ...
  19. Air One Feeder Airline, a startup based in Bangalore, will be the first carrier in I...
  20. Pick up Nonimmigrant Visa Waiver Arrival/Departure Form I-94W that begins, "Wel...
  21. THE MODELS STRUTTED AND SULKED THEIR WAY across the stage as the crowd of fashionist...
  22. ONE DOES NOT HAVE TO GO all the way back to the postwar era captured in Carol Reed's...
  23. EXCHANGE RATE CURRENCY UNITS PER US DOLLAR COUNTRY/CURRENCY 3/3...
  24. Lockheed Martin and Covenant Aviation Security have teamed in hopes of winning contr...
  25. FKI Logsitex won a $14.5 million contract from American Airlines to integrate an inl...
  26. * CSA Czech Airlines and pilots union CZ ALPA reached agreement in March on a new th...
  27. * Varig at press time announced it is considering offers from seven different busine...
  28. Air Canada parent ACE Aviation Holdings raised C$792 million through concurrent debt...
  29. May 1-4 77th Annual AAAE Conference & Exposition, Seattle, WA. E-mail Todd Haupt...
  30. US REGIONAL & SPECIALTY CARRIERS TRAFFIC 'January-December 2004 ...
  31. Decades into its largely successful fight to reduce the environmental impact of airc...
  32. LOT HAS HAPPENED to and around the United Airlines Flight Training Center since the ...
  33. * OnAir, the SITA/Airbus joint venture, said it selected the Airbus facility at Buxt...
  34. TOP 20 AIRLINES MARCH 2005 RANK AIRLINE (RPKs (000) 1 Amer...
  35. China Eastern Airlines reported a net profit of 514.1 million yuan ($62.1 million)in...
  36. * Iberia said it expects to book a pre-tax gain of 600 million [euro] ($775 million)...
  37. * SAS Group in March sold a 25% shareholding in its Rezidor SAS hotels company to Ca...
  38. * Virgin Express and SN Brussels Airlines shareholders completed the merger that see...
  39. * Aerolineas Argentinas intends to make a public offering of up to 30% of its capita...
  40. Launch of Jade Cargo International, the joint cargo carrier announced by Lufthansa C...
  41. Editor: Your story on the beginnings of Cargolux (ATW, 2/05, p. 38) is incomplete an...
  42. US FUEL COST AND CONSUMPTION January 2005 Total ...
  43. Aloha Airgroup and subsidiary Aloha Airlines received US Bankruptcy Court approval f...
  44. Hamilton Aerospace Technologies will perform maintenance and modification on an MD-8...
  45. * Finnair President and CEO Keijo Suila announced his retirement effective at the en...
  46. * EasyJet will boost its service at EuroAirport Basel-Mulhouse-Freiburg significantl...
  47. * Thales announced that LFV Group has deployed its new air traffic management system...
  48. Kingfisher Airlines selected the V2500 to power its fleet of A320s. It has 13 firm o...
  49. Embraer reported net income of $83 million for the fourth quarter ended Dec. 31, up ...
  50. L-3 Communications Security & Detection Systems appointed William J. Frain senio...
  51. AIRCRAFT DATA 737-300 737-700 MT...
  52. FAA in late March finalized its previously announced proposal to extend the voluntar...
  53. ATA Holdings Corp., parent of ATA Airlines, reported a massive $816.9 million net lo...
  54. General Electric has frozen the design for the GEnx engine that will power both the ...
  55. * Alteon will open a new training facility near Singapore Changi in the first quarte...
  56. * Lufthansa Technik said Austrian arrows became the first customer for the latest ve...
  57. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Caption: Varig Engineering & Maintenance recently de...
  58. 10 YEARS AGO: Air New Zealand and Ansett are believed to be close to an equity allia...
  59. NON-US AIRLINE TRAFFIC-2005 Pass. 05/04 RPKs 05/...
  60. Continental Airlines missed a self-imposed March 31 deadline to achieve cost-cutting...
  61. US Majors Traffic March 2005 RPMs % chg. ASMs % chg. L...
  62. Pan Am International Flight Academy will close its Career Pilot Development training...
  63. * Sterling European was sold to Icelandic investment company Fons Eignarhaldsfelag f...
  64. * AirBaltic said its revenues rose 54% in 2004 to 74.4 million [euro] ($96.1 million...
  65. * El Al Israel Airlines earned $33.1 million in 2004, its best annual financial resu...
  66. Bombardier, the company that launched the first regional jet, announced a $2 billion...
  67. CHINA'S AIRLINE INDUSTRY is an improbable blend of state control and regulation, tra...
  68. AIRCRAFT VALUES Aircraft Year Built 2005 * 2010 ** 2015 ** 2020 ** 1...
  69. US and EU negotiators in late March took the first step toward resuming talks on cre...
  70. THE INITIAL PHASE OF THE RJ REVOLUTION IS over. Since the first CRJ200 was handed ov...
  71. Patrick Corp. is expected to review Virgin Blue's growth strategy n an attempt to re...
  72. * Air France and KLM next month will merge their respective frequent-flier programs ...
  73. * Airbus in March unveiled a Maintenance Repair & Overhaul Network consisting of...
  74. * European Commission dropped an antitrust probe against Europe's leading providers ...
  75. * South African Airways subleased three A340-300s to Jet Airways for the Indian carr...
  76. The US Bankruptcy Court overseeing US Airways approved the airline's agreement for a...
  77. WHEN MEMBERS OF THE Regional Airline Assn. get together in Cincinnati this month for...
  78. While lease rates for the 737-300 have staged something of a recovery, values for th...
  79. The US and EU failed to settle their dispute over civil aircraft launch aid by April...
  80. THINK WEIGHT and balance and "safety" is the word that naturally springs t...
  81. Northwest Airlines at the end of March raised its labor cost savings target from $95...
  82. IAE and Spirit Airlines signed a 15-year fleet hour agreement covering the V2500s po...
  83. Air China earned 2.39 billion yuan ($288.8 million) in 2004 up significantly over 16...
  84. * Lufthansa confirmed 2004 income of 404 million [euro] ($524.3 million), reversing ...
  85. * Aer Lingus posted a 29% increase in operating profit before employee profit-sharin...
  86. * TAP Portugal posted a consolidated net profit of 8.6 million [euro] ($11.1 million...
  87. Kitty Hawk Aircargo took delivery of a CFM56-powered 737-300 Special Freighter, one ...
  88. Singapore Aircraft Leasing Enterprise ordered 20 CFM567B-powered 737NGs and signed p...
  89. A MODEST FOUR-HOUR CONVAIR 340 flight on April 1, 1955, from Hamburg to Munich via D...
  90. United Airlines will close its Seattle call center on June 4 in a move that will eli...
  91. Boeing delivered 70 commercial aircraft in the first quarter ended March 31, consist...
  92. JAL Group Chairman and CEO Isao Kaneko, taking responsibility for a series of operat...
  93. * Ameco Beijing is investing 10 million yuan ($1.2 million) to construct a four-bay ...
  94. European Airline Traffic March 2005 % ...
  95. * Avianca earned $116 million for 2004, reversing a $108 million net loss in 2003. I...
  96. * Mexicana unveiled plans to transform its Regional subsidiary Aerocaribe into what ...
  97. Lufthansa and Aegean Airlines will begin a strategic cooperation on Oct. 30 that wil...
  98. Air Wisconsin will end all flying on behalf of United Airlines over the next year. T...
  99. US MAJOR CARRIERS International operations *--January-December 2004 ...
  100. US FAA last month proposed a new rule that will require airlines to replace or modif...
  101. Delta Air Lines will eliminate 1,600-2,000 jobs in its TechOps division owing to a d...
  102. Last December, US Airways and Comair each suffered near-simultaneous operational mel...
  103. U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE--April 1, 2005 Air ...
  104. Sabre Airline Solutions said that Hainan Airlines implemented and launched the AirFl...
  105. EADS posted a net profit of 1.03 billion [euro] ($1.38 billion) in 2004 a 60% increa...
  106. UPS will build an $82.5 million, 700,O00-sq.-ft. heavy freight facility next to its ...
  107. Air France-KLM Group Chairman and CEO Jean-Cyril Spinetta urged US and EU negotiator...
  108. UAL Corp., parent of United Airlines, had a $326 million net loss in January includi...
  109. US FAA in February proposed new rules requiring "significant upgrades" to ...
  110. Pilots at Delta Connection carrier Comair agreed to a pay freeze that the airline sa...
  111. CELEBRATING THEIR ATW Industry Awards, the seven winners emphasized the positive tre...
  112. US MAJOR CARRIERS System traffic *--January-November 2004 ...
  113. THE VIEW FROM THIS SMALL town in the high desert of southwestern Utah is a panorama ...
  114. Inflight breakup of a China Airlines 747-200 on May 25, 2002, with the loss of all 2...
  115. Gol earned R$384.7 million last year, up significantly over net income of R$175.5 mi...
  116. Air France-KLM Group reported a flat profit of 61 million [euro] ($79.3 million) for...
  117. Continental Airlines met a self-imposed deadline of Feb. 28 to reach cost-savings ag...
  118. Sabre Airline Solutions said six airlines selected its AirCrews Pairing Optimizer on...
  119. Bombardier is introducing a longer-range version of its CRJ700 through an increase i...
  120. Austrian Airlines Group reported a 2004 operating profit of 10.5 million [euro] ($13...
  121. US REGIONAL & SPECIALTY CARRIERS TRAFFIC January-November 2004 ...
  122. IF THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION HAS ITS WAY, THE airport slot allocation process in Europ...
  123. Air New Zealand earned NZ$102 million ($73.6 million) for the six months ended Dec. ...
  124. EXCHANGE RATE CURRENCY UNITS PER US DOLLAR COUNTRY/ CURRENCY ...
  125. Canadian discount airline Jetsgo suspended operations without warning March 11 and s...
  126. US Dept. of Transportation tentatively selected Continental Airlines and American Ai...
  127. B/E Aerospace was selected by several Asian, European and other international airlin...
  128. Bombardier Aerospace reported 329 total deliveries for the fiscal year ended Jan. 31...
  129. Bmi Group reported a 2.1 million [pounds sterling] ($2.8 million) pre-tax profit for...
  130. US NATIONAL CARRIERS System traffic *--January-November 2004 ...
  131. INCREASED FOCUS ON THIRD-PARTY CUSTOMERS IS the name of the game at profitable SAS F...
  132. Lufthansa Systems said Hapag-Lloyd Flug opted for the Lido Route Manual electronical...
  133. LAN Airlines (formerly LanChile) said it began negotiations to acquire an unidentifi...
  134. ATW is pleased to announce that Cathy Buyck has been promoted to the position of Eur...
  135. US DOT proposed extending the flight reduction agreement at Chicago O'Hare beyond it...
  136. Air Deccan and ATR finalized a previously announced contract for 30 new ATR 72-500s ...
  137. The sacking of Boeing President and CEO Harry Stonecipher in the wake of a sex scand...
  138. Iberia earned 218.4 million [euro] ($289.4 million) in 2004, up 53% over 34.9 millio...
  139. 10 YEARS AGO: US airlines can expect to save at least $507 million from the recently...
  140. BY PASSING THE GLOBAL DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS whenever possible has been a goal of the ...
  141. SAS Group signed a comprehensive catering contract with LSG Lufthansa Service Holdin...
  142. TOP 20 AIRLINES FEBRUARY 2005 RANK AIRLINE RPKs (000) 1 ...
  143. FACT FILE US Majors Traffic February 2005 RPMs % chg. ASM...
  144. World Air Holdings, parent of the airline, earned $8.1 million in the December 2004 ...
  145. April April 12-14 WATS/RATS 2005, Adams Mark Hotel, Dallas, TX. Phone +44(0) 1...
  146. Rod Eddington, who will retire from British Airways at the end of September to be re...
  147. Finnair Group returned to profit in 2004, with annual earnings of 11.8 million [euro...
  148. Denmark's Sterling Airlines had a pre-tax loss of DKK199.3 million ($35 million) in ...
  149. Rockwell Collins was selected by Hainan Airlines to provide avionics for six 737NGs ...
  150. Qantas announced a 28% increase in profit for the fiscal first half ended Dec. 31, e...
  151. Virgin Nigeria Airlines, the 49% affiliate of Virgin Group, is scheduled to begin op...
  152. WestJet's streak of consecutive quarterly profits ended at 31 as it reported a fourt...
  153. Hawaiian Airlines, which has been operating under Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection f...
  154. South East Asian Airlines, a small regional carrier based in the Philippines that op...
  155. ALBERT EINSTEIN SAID, "WE owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count,...
  156. Virgin Blue's independent directors in late February flatly rejected as "neithe...
  157. FACT FILE European Airline Traffic February 2005 %...
  158. European Commission recommended that the Council of Transport Ministers authorize it...
  159. BY SUMMER, THE fruits of nearly four years of seemingly disparate government biometr...
  160. JET FUEL PRICES * [GRAPHIC OMITTED] February 25, 2005 New York 148.9...
  161. Copa Airlines acquired a 51% stake in AeroRepublica of Colombia, which has a 35.7% s...
  162. Air Canada parent ACE Aviation Holdings earned C$15 million ($12.4 million) in the f...
  163. Cathay Pacific Airways reported its second-best year with profit to shareholders of ...
  164. Swiss International Air Lines would be acquired by Lufthansa but retain its independ...
  165. That may seem like an odd remark, coming as it does from the CEO of a carrier that h...
  166. Lufthansa earned 400 million [euro] ($530 million) in 2004, much improved from a mas...
  167. DBA is to take over the aircraft and routes of Germania Express under an agreement t...
  168. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Caption: Boeing delivered a 737-700 to China Eastern Yun...
  169. AIRCRAFT DATA A321-200 757-200 MTOW, 00...
  170. Brazilian government approved a request by Varig and TAM to end their code-sharing r...
  171. Delta Air Lines expects to report a "substantial" loss in 2005 and warned ...
  172. JAL Group raised its profit forecast for the March 31, 2005, fiscal year to [yen] 27...
  173. It is almost one year since the implementation of the AF-KLM merger and you have sta...
  174. China has overtaken Japan as the largest air travel market in Asia and is second onl...
  175. NON-US AIRLINE TRAFFIC--2005 Pass. 05/04 RPKs 0...
  176. THE AIRLINE BUSINESS FACES continued challenges. Growth in traffic is driving high l...
  177. ORIGINAL EQUIPMENT manufacturers intend to grow their share of the commercial aviati...
  178. US FUEL COST AND CONSUMPTION December 2004 Total ...
  179. Iberia announced orders for 30 Airbus narrowbodies and took options on 49 more. Firm...
  180. US Airways reached agreement with Eastshore Aviation, an investment entity controlle...
  181. Rolls-Royce will spend $42 million on construction and upgrades at NASA's John C. St...
  182. As was expected, the European Commission has validated programs to provide incentive...
  183. SAS Group lost Sek1.87 billion ($268.1 million)in 2004, worsened from Sek1.41 billio...
  184. Singapore Airlines Group earned S$475.6 million ($290.8 million) in the fiscal third...
  185. Parker Hannifin Corp. was selected to supply the fuel system for the Rolls-Royce Tre...
  186. Boullioun Aviation Services will place two CFM56-7-powered 737-800s on medium-term l...
  187. Air Deccan inked a deal with ATR to acquire 30 new ATR 72-500s and six secondhand ai...
  188. US MAJOR CARRIERS System traffic *--January-October 2004 ...
  189. BRATISLAVA WOULD SEEM TO be an unlikely place from which to launch an airline. The c...
  190. AIRCRAFT DATA CRJ-200ER ERJ-145ER 328Jet ...
  191. Boeing reported net income of $186 million for the fourth quarter ended Dec. 31, whi...
  192. The Trax Maintenance and Engineering System was selected by proposed startup Atlanti...
  193. Israel Aircraft Industries' Bedek Aviation Group was awarded a long-term contract fr...
  194. The partial collapse of the roof of Terminal 2E at Paris Charles de Gaulle last May ...
  195. Embraer is expanding its maintenance operation in the US with a new 70,000-sq.-ft. f...
  196. AFTER NUMEROUS FALSE hopes and blind alleys, the wonderful world of IT finally is mo...
  197. AFTER SPENDING ALL OF ONE'S ADULT LIFE IN aviation generally, mostly in the airline ...
  198. Frontier Airlines lost $11.1 million in its fiscal third quarter ended Dec. 31 compa...
  199. United Airlines pilots and flight attendants ratified new cost-savings deals at the ...