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Aeroflot (SU) reported 14.2 million passengers carried, up 25.6% in 2011 over the year-ago period. International traffic increased 21.9% to 8.7 million passengers and domestic traffic rose 32% to 5.5 million. RPKs increased 20.8% to 42 billion, producing a load factor of 77.5 %, up 0.3 percentage point.
SU operates a fleet of more than 100 aircraft, including 10 Boeing 767s, 14 Airbus A330s, 18 A321s, 43 A320s, 15 A319s, six Il-96-300s, five Sukhoi Superjet 100s and three MD-11Fs.
US Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) reported that US airlines employed 389,361 workers in November, up 2.6% from November 2010.
BTS said this is the 12th consecutive increase in full-time equivalent employee levels for the scheduled passenger carriers from the same month of the previous year.
BTS said Continental Airlines reported 14.7% more full-time employees, the largest increase among the network carriers. US Airways followed with a 3.5% increase. Only two network airlines, Alaska Airlines (down 0.4%) and Delta Air Lines (down 0.3%), reported decreased employment.
According to the report, low-cost carriers (LCCs) reported 5.9% increases in full-time employment over the year-ago month. Five LCCs—Virgin America (up 18.4%), Spirit Airlines (up 13.5%), Southwest Airlines (up 7.4%), JetBlue Airways (up 7.2%) and AirTran Airways (up 1.8%)—reported workforce increases. Frontier Airlines and Allegiant Air reported decreases of 6.3% and 3.2%, respectively.
Regional carriers reported a 0.6% increase in full-time employment in November 2011 compared to the year-ago month. Among the 17 regional carriers, 11 reported increased employment levels and six reported reduced employment levels. Shuttle America (up 21.3%) and GoJet (up 16.6%) reported the largest percentage increases. Comair (down 25.7%) and Colgan Airlines (down 20.8%) reported the largest percentage decreases, BTS stated.
Payment network UATP has achieved record transactions for calendar year 2011 and recorded a 23% year-over-year increase in total charge volume. The company—which counts among its airline customers Air New Zealand, American Airlines, Austrian Airlines, China Eastern Airlines, Delta Air Lines, Japan Airlines, Qantas Airways, United Airlines and US Airways—said it processed approximately $13 billion in 2011. It signed new contract with five airlines: Aeromexico, Malaysia Airlines, Qatar Airways, Shandong Airlines and Turkish Airlines.
"UATP bounced back from challenging times in 2009 and prospered in 2010,” UATP CEO Ralph Kaiser said. “During 2011, through the resurgence of corporate travel and UATP's product diversity, including its new DataStream product suite, we have grown in every aspect of our business. In fact, we are so optimistic about 2012 that we expect to break these 2011 records."
UATP also saw a 43% increase in its payment processing business, attributing a “significant portion” of the jump to its new DataStream product line. It expects to sign more issuers in the coming year. UATP accounts are accepted as payment for corporate business travel worldwide.
RAK Airways has partnered with foreign exchange and remittance house Al Ghurair Exchange to offer customers the option of paying for tickets booked through its call center at any Al Ghurair Exchange branch across the UAE.
Emirates(EK) and Alaska Airlines (AS) have launched a new frequent flier partnership. Under the new terms, travelers will be able to accumulate AS Mileage Plan miles when flying to any of EK worldwide destinations, and Emirates Skywards members can gather miles while traveling across the AS network.
Condor Airlines has selected Discover the World Marketing to provide sales and marketing services in Greece and Cyprus.
Air BP Lubricants was selected by Etihad Airways to provide online training to 125 of its maintenance and engineering personnel. The program covers "key aspects" of the use of turbine oils in the aviation industry including "the definition of a lubricant, to turbine oil composition, the different applications for BP turbine oils, a market-wide survey establishing which lubricants are in direct competition, detailed turbine oil specifications, servicing and monitoring, and storage and handling."
Baltic Aviation Academy has received a Kyrgyzstan Civil Aviation Authority approval certificate to operate the type-rating training on Airbus A320 full flight simulators.
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