Stories Collection

  1. ATR delivered the 600th ATR to Italian carrier Air Dolomiti, 15 years after the firs...
  2. Atlas Air has launched Boeing Airplane Services' 747-300 freighter conversion progra...
  3. A Boeing-BAE Systems joint venture has emerged as a possible bidder for part-privati...
  4. SAirGroup will be allowed to take full control of Sabena after the Swiss approved in...
  5. Boeing lowered the 717 MTOW from 114,000 lb. to 110,000 lb. and maximum Landing weig...
  6. LOT Polish Airlines has selected ARINC to provide VHF data link service throughout i...
  7. 1.91% of world passengers 2.13% of world RPKs 2.74% of world FTKs A...
  8. Editor: Re Bill Sweetman's article in the May 2000 edition (p. 71), although the art...
  9. IATA DG Pierre Jeanniot hailed the outcome of the International Telecommunication Un...
  10. Ansett New Zealand may be rebranded as a Qantas affiliate as part of a franchise-sty...
  11. Indian Airlines has a new chairman and MD. Sunil Arora, another civil servant from t...
  12. Alliances are proof that the airline industry wants to--and needs to--consolidate in...
  13. Islandair of Hawaii will lease two 37-seat Dash 8s from Willis Lease Finance Corp. T...
  14. Cargolux could launch an IPO later this year to raise at least $150 million. The pro...
  15. Lufthansa Technik achieved record revenues and earnings in the past fiscal year, inc...
  16. Iberia is reported to be close to announcing a codesharing alliance with Air France ...
  17. Nordam Texas has been named an approved service center for component repair by Embra...
  18. 4.08% of world passengers 3.20% of world RPKs 3.29% of world FTKs A...
  19. The regional jet has redefined the commercial air transport business, particularly i...
  20. Delta Air Lines continues to expand into the Latin America/Caribbean region (ATW 6/0...
  21. An Asiana 737-400 carrying South Korean President Kim Dae-jung and the South Korean ...
  22. Air-India's off-and-on-and-off privatization is on again following a decision by the...
  23. NTSB investigators are looking into whether a Jetstream 31 on approach to Wilkes-Bar...
  24. Lufthansa Cargo, anticipating strong results for the year, returned its best-ever fi...
  25. Rockwell Collins' Integrated Information System, which links an aircraft-based intra...
  26. British Airways turned down an option to buy 20% of Olympic Airways, which was manag...
  27. AirTran has chosen PROS to provide revenue management software and services. AirTran...
  28. 27.36% of world passengers 29.26% of world RPKs 27.96% of world FTKs ...
  29. Nav Canada said the Converging Runway Display Aid now is operational and providing c...
  30. JetBlue Airways, which began service Feb. 11, announced it achieved a systemwide pas...
  31. China Airlines signaled that it is preparing to enter the mainland China market once...
  32. Korean Air announced that four of five current VPs in its operations division are be...
  33. Pratt & Whitney Canada has established a new Regional Airline Engines Organizati...
  34. Royal Air Maroc posted a 42% slide in net profit from 260 million dirhams to 150.7 m...
  35. Madrid-based Amadeus Global Travel Distribution, Europe's biggest CRS, said controll...
  36. Air France Group for a second consecutive year bucked the trend of declining earning...
  37. Aerospan.com hired Hal Chrisman as senior VP-marketing & business development. ...
  38. 1.81% of world passengers 2.44% of world RPKs 1 .59% of world FTKs ...
  39. FAA will require US airlines to carry automatic external defibrillators and expanded...
  40. Orbitz is the new name for T2, the travel website being created by American, Contine...
  41. China eased slightly a recent ban on airfare discounting after demand fell. Domestic...
  42. All Nippon Airways proposed wage cuts to its unions after posting its worst annual l...
  43. Mesa Air Group reported net income of $5.4 million on revenues of $114.6 million for...
  44. El Al posted a $16 million profit for 1999 and this past May achieved a 55% share of...
  45. CSA Czech Airlines is preparing to join a global alliance, with a decision expected ...
  46. AEA confirmed that April was a month of strong growth for its member airlines with t...
  47. Under mounting pressure to increase cooperation, Arab air carriers concentrate on de...
  48. 21.35% of world passengers 23.93% of world RPKs 33.06% of world FTKs ...
  49. FAA will require US operators of 719 MD-80, MD-88, MD-90, DC-10 and MD-11 jets to re...
  50. The Airclaims consultancy has signed an agreement with BAE Systems Asset Management ...
  51. PROS Revenue Management has announced eCRM, an application that enhances an airline'...
  52. At RAA's largest-ever meeting, new leadership pledges to be more proactive in meetin...
  53. Changing alliance partners is a strategic reality; changing airport operations is a ...
  54. Hawaiian Airlines, after posting a loss of $2.6 million for the three months to Marc...
  55. Ansett is undertaking a search for a new chief executive following the departure of ...
  56. Phoenix--Honeywell Aerospace Electronic Systems is in the process of launching a new...
  57. Korean Air announced that four of five current VPs in its operations division are be...
  58. Rod Eddington, as expected, became BA's new CEO in May. The former Ansett Holdings E...
  59. Canada will consider permitting cabotage if no local carriers arise to challenge the...
  60. Midwest Express Airlines will expand its codesharing with American Eagle, adding ser...
  61. AirTran Airways has signed an agreement with PROS Revenue Management for the prosRM ...
  62. Learning to adapt its procedures to the Chinese style has helped Gameco become succe...
  63. For both latecomers and founders, alliance expenses start to add up, some in unlikel...
  64. United Airlines is canceling up to 100 flights daily because some pilots are refusin...
  65. Atlas Air completed a private refinancing of two secured aircraft term loan faciliti...
  66. South African Airways will lease eight 737-800s from GATX Flightlease, a joint ventu...
  67. Boeing will exploit technology acquired in its purchase of Hughes Space & Commun...
  68. China Eastern Airlines returned to the black last year as well, posting a net profit...
  69. British Airways dosed out a financially disastrous foray into the French market May ...
  70. Six top airlines--Air France, American Airlines, British Airways, Continental Airlin...
  71. American Eagle, the Regional arm of American Airlines, will build a satellite termin...
  72. Legend Airlines has purchased a complete suite of Lawson Software applications that ...
  73. 'Multiport' upstart Leipzig-Halle Airport sees itself as an alternative as politicos...
  74. They said it couldn't be done, but Delta Air Lines has built a highly profitable net...
  75. WestJet Airlines, the Calgarybased low-fare specialist, earned C$4.2 million ($2.8 m...
  76. GECAS purchased a 747 and 777 in a sale/leaseback transaction with Malaysia Airlines...
  77. Boeing launched a new website, myboeingfleet.com, as a single source of online maint...
  78. China Southern Airlines returned to profitability in 1999, reporting a small profit ...
  79. British Midland Airways' pre-tax profits for 1999 rose 22.3% to [pounds]13.7 million...
  80. The European Union on May 4 implemented its controversial hushkit nonaddition rule t...
  81. GE Capital Aviation Services signed a contract for 26 firm Airbus jets--16 A330-200s...
  82. AD OPT Technologies Inc. has sold the e-Scheduling module of its [Altitude.sup.TM] P...
  83. Paying a little more for an IT consultant might be the economical approach to a prob...
  84. South African Airways has reversed a near-fatal decline and is looking to the future...
  85. Canadian Airlines Corp., which is in the process of being acquired by Air Canada, po...
  86. International Lease Finance Corp. leased six PW4000-powered A330-200s to LTU for 10 ...
  87. FedEx took delivery on May 9 of the first MD-10F from Boeing following FAA certifica...
  88. China Airlines reported after-tax profits of NT$2.75 billion ($89.7 million) for 199...
  89. Air France Group said consolidated operating revenues rose 13.5% to Ffr67.7 billion ...
  90. Emirates Airlines became the first carrier to opt publicly for the proposed A3XX. At...
  91. Northwest Airlink Express Airlines I, a wholly owned subsidiary of Northwest Airline...
  92. Cargolux could launch an IPO later this year to raise at least $150 million. The pro...
  93. Evans & Sutherland has been awarded a contract by Saudi Arabian Airlines to supp...
  94. United Airlines takes its e-commerce activities offline By the end of this mont...
  95. Editor: The article "Stalling For Time" (ATW, 4/00) contributes little to ...
  96. Air Canada's net loss for the first quarter to March 31 widened to C$34 million ($22...
  97. Gulf Air recorded sharply lower profits for 1999 at 400,000 Bahraini dinars ($1.1 mi...
  98. FAA named John F. Thornton to direct Free Flight Phase 2, which "will build on ...
  99. Singapore Airlines, as expected, secured its long-awaited regional alliance with Air...
  100. Germany's Preussag AG snatched the UK's leading travel firm, Thomson Travel Group Lt...
  101. Eleven European airlines announced they will create a neutral travel website that wi...
  102. Atlantic Coast Airlines reported net income of $2.3 million on revenues of $92.5 mil...
  103. Lufthansa and the German postal-services group Deutsche Post AG are pooling their ai...
  104. SkyWest Airlines of St. George, Utah, has chosen Avidyne's FlightMax 850 as the repl...
  105. Taking a few resources left over from the Soviet era, companies in Uzbekistan are bu...
  106. US Airways' ALPA-represented pilots have approved a tentative agreement allowing the...
  107. Philippine Airlines will train its pilots at GE Capital Aviation Training in Hong Ko...
  108. BWIA West Indies Airways reported an audited profit of $3.7 million for 1999, down f...
  109. America West Holdings, parent of the airline, sold an 88% interest in its cruise and...
  110. Lufthansa Flight Training GmbH dedicated an expansive new state-of-the-art facility ...
  111. SAS Group cited a 74% rise in fuel expense in reporting that its first-quarter pre-t...
  112. British Airways is being touted as a possible investor in and marketing partner to K...
  113. FlightSafety International's airline training center at Manchester, England, has rec...
  114. Lufthansa Cargo, Singapore Airlines and SAS Cargo, following up on a March 1999 MOU,...
  115. Sextant In-Flight Systems signed an agreement with Alitalia to install its "m s...
  116. US Major airlines coped with the Y2K hangover and soaring fuel prices in the first q...
  117. A request for gate facilities at Dallas Love Field by Delta Air Lines subsidiary Com...
  118. Pierre de Montgolfier was appointed president of Airbus Industrie China, responsible...
  119. LanChile earned $25.4 million in the first quarter to March 31, down 20.2% compared ...
  120. Cathay Pacific, buoyed by the upswing in Asian economies, will add nine aircraft to ...
  121. KLM will spin off its MRO activities into a new entity that will be owned jointly wi...
  122. Swissair parent SAirGroup will raise its stake in Sabena to 85% from 49.5% in a shar...
  123. A growing workforce, spiking retirements and a scarcity of skilled candidates are ch...
  124. Alaska Central Express has signed a Fleet Management Program agreement with Pratt &a...
  125. Delta Air Lines expects to save $40 million in annual operating costs through a stra...
  126. The Preston Group, a wholly owned subsidiary of Boeing, announced that Brazil has be...
  127. Will airlines and maintenance facilities be able to support the flood of regional je...
  128. The European Regions Airline Assn. has reported a 10% growth for 1999, with the 78 E...
  129. India's ministry of civil aviation finally published its draft Civil Aviation Policy...
  130. US fuel cost & consumption Janaury 2000 ...
  131. Airlines are calling on technology to ease passengers through the terminal It'...
  132. Airframers aren't the only ones benefiting from strong sales of regional jets and la...
  133. Solitair Corp., a wholly owned US subsidiary of Solitair Kapital AB, converted 20 ER...
  134. A series of unexplained explosions at a cargo hangar at Kinshasa's N'Djili Internati...
  135. Air India's hopes for a breakeven result for the just-ended fiscal year were dashed ...
  136. Airbus Industrie aims to streamline spare-parts procurement via the Internet. In the...
  137. KLM unveiled its Operation Baseline aimed at returning the airline to profitability ...
  138. Financially ailing Thomson Travel Group Plc, parent of UK charter carrier Britannia ...
  139. Legend Airlines began scheduled service from Dallas Love Field to Washington Dulles ...
  140. The US and UK reached agreement to allow a US carrier--expected to be US Airways--to...
  141. Airport traffic November 1999 ...
  142. Air New Zealand's acquisition of Ansett may once again have thwarted Singapore Airli...
  143. Bombardier Aerospace, owner of Belfast City Airport, is the beneficiary of a High Co...
  144. Delta Connection Inc. carriers Comair and Atlantic Southeast Airlines have placed fi...
  145. Varig, Transbrasil, TAM and Vasp are facing a formal probe into price-fixing opened ...
  146. Ansett New Zealand was sold to a NZ-based consortium, ending News Corp.'s 11-year in...
  147. ATC delays in Europe are by no means a thing of the past. Eurocontrol is aiming to r...
  148. Singapore Airlines appears to be the likely winner in the battle for an ownership po...
  149. Swissair parent SAirGroup is seeking a UK partner for its troubled German package to...
  150. Frontier Airlines reported that its 315 flight attendants voted down unionizing effo...
  151. Japan Airlines became the first carrier formally to order the longer-range 777-300 w...
  152. US Major carriers International operations [*]--January-December 1999 ...
  153. Regional statistics US Regional & specialty carrier ...
  154. Spurred by dissidents on website soapboxes, union members are turning down contracts...
  155. Atlantic Coast Airlines, which operates in the eastern and midwestern US as United E...
  156. Pegasus Aviation issued a $938 million lease securitization for 28 jets on lease to ...
  157. APLA, the Argentine pilots union, is negotiating a finance agreement with the Inter ...
  158. JAL, ANA and Japan Air Services are to form a "joint shuttle service" on t...
  159. Virgin Express Holdings reported a full-year 1999 loss of 5.67 million euros ($5.44 ...
  160. The US NTSB recommended that FAA require airlines to install video recording equipme...
  161. Swissair C00 Jeff Katz is rumored to be leaving the company soon by mutual consent a...
  162. Midway Airlines pilots, represented by the Air Line Pilots Assn., ratified their fir...
  163. The world's scheduled airlines suffered 20 fatal accidents last year involving aircr...
  164. World airline traffic--2000 Pass. 00/99 RPKs 00/99 ...
  165. Middle River Aircraft Services is a new name for an old company that has been sold, ...
  166. Mesaba Airlines has opened its new 126,000-sq-ft. maintenance facility at Cincinnati...
  167. Spanair took delivery of an MD-83 from Airplanes IAL Ltd. For 48 months. GECAS was t...
  168. TAM and Rio-Sul, Brazil's most consistently profitable airlines over the past decade...
  169. Japan Airlines will eliminate an additional 700 jobs by the end of FY02 (March 31, 2...
  170. Aeroflot will be reorganized from top to bottom over the next 2-3 years. The new cor...
  171. The deregulation battles of years past are being reenacted in new locales, with fami...
  172. AEA members reported for the month of Feb. a 10.7% increase in passenger traffic, a ...
  173. Fort Lauderdale-based Spirit Airlines filed suit against Northwest Airlines in feder...
  174. IATA members earned $1.9 billion from international scheduled services in 1999, down...
  175. Aircraft operating data US Major carriers (years ending third quarter)...
  176. Communicating quickly and accurately is vital when an airliner goes down, and planni...
  177. Air Wisconsin Chairman and CEO Geoffrey T. Crowley has been appointed to the Federal...
  178. International Lease Finance Corp. placed a 767-200ER to Aero Continente of Peru. Air...
  179. Struggling Vasp faced another challenge after a court grounded three of its 737-300s...
  180. All Nippon Airways expects to report better-than-anticipated results for the just-en...
  181. Turkish Airlines recorded a loss of $121 million in 1999 compared to a $9.4 million ...
  182. JET FUEL PRICES Spot cash markets (average) ...
  183. CFM International said that the Tech56 swept-wide-chord fan blade successfully compl...
  184. AirTran Holdings, parent of the airline formerly known as ValuJet, earned $2.9 milli...
  185. Aircraft data & values (Values) Aircraft type ...
  186. China Southern is using economic reform and e-commerce to extend its lead as China's...
  187. The ALPA-represented pilots of United Airlines are opposed to increasing the United ...
  188. Emirates signed a $167.7 million financing agreement for acquisition of its eight an...
  189. China is planning a new $2.3 billion international airport in Guangzhou, the capital...
  190. Russian aviation officials shut down 46 airports in 1999 because of declining passen...
  191. Austrian Airlines Group, which includes Austrian, Lauda Air and Tyrolean Airways, sa...
  192. EXCHANGE RATE [*] Country Currency 3/15/00 12/15/99 Brazil/Real ...
  193. Boeing delivered 74 commercial jets in the first quarter plus one 747 to USAF, down ...
  194. America West Airlines will build a $35 million, 150,000-sq.-ft. flight training cent...
  195. ATW'S--Top 25 January 2000 RPK...
  196. Singapore Airlines Group leaps into untested financial waters with IPOs of subsidiar...
  197. Mesaba Aviation, the Minneapolis-based Northwest Airlink, is the third Regional airl...
  198. Alitalia ordered five 747-400s and optioned three more with deliveries beginning in ...
  199. The Australian government effectively has ruled out the possibility of building a se...