Shortly after the historic Pasco, Washington-Boise, Idaho-Elko, Nevada flight of Varney Air Lines on April 6, 1926, this group posed before a Laird Swallow biplane at Boise. Shown (from left) are pilot Joe Taff, pilot Franklin Rose, Hal Bruntach, Mrs. Walter T. Varney, Walter T. Varney, his father Thomas Varney, chief pilot Leon Cuddeback, the senior Varney’s chauffeur, and a representative of the US Post Office....More
British United was the largest privately owned airline in the 1960s in the UK. It began as a merger between Airwork Services and Hunting-Clan Air Transport. Its main shareholder was British & Commonwealth Shipping (B&C) and it began as a charter airline flying 90 assorted fixed-wing aircraft and helicopters....More
After the Great East Japan earthquake and the subsequent tsunami and nuclear power disaster, All Nippon Airways executives were faced with a 20% year-over-year drop on domestic routes. Without any government assistance, ANA swiftly made finely tuned adjustments to its capacity and moved up cost-cutting plans so it could not only adapt to the rapidly changed environment, but also could continue with its international expansion plans, such as launching new Haneda-Frankfurt, Narita-Seattle and Haneda-Beijing routes....More
IATA slightly improved its 2013 financial outlook for the world’s airlines in March, citing strong passenger demand and signs that cargo markets are starting to grow again.
IATA now expects airlines to produce a combined net post-tax profit margin of 1.6%, up from the previously forecast 1.3%, with a net post-tax profit of $10.6 billion, up from the previously projected $8.4 billion....More
It really is beyond belief that Congress has been allowed to get this far with its holding of the US air transportation system to ransom under the curious term "sequestration."...More
In February 1929, after eight years of operation, Pan Am owner Juan Trippe took over Mexicana and opened the carrier’s first international route from its base in Mexico City to Brownsville, Texas via Tuxpan and Tampico....More
It’s one of those bizarre quirks that the airline industry finds itself this spring with two 787s needing to get off the ground.
No one doubted the 787 aircraft’s return to service. But the flight path remains less certain for Resolution 787, IATA’s application with the US Transportation Department to approve an agreement that would establish the framework for its New Distribution Capability (NDC)....More
The US should look to what’s happening at airports worldwide and think bigger and more strategically about how its airports can best raise the investments necessary to keep them competitive on a global scale, the head of the Airports Council International said Monday....More
Governments must put more political will into sorting out air traffic management mega-projects and also addressing the political issue of finding a global agreement for emission market-based-measures (MBMs), the head of IATA said Monday....More
Airbus, Air Canada and BioFuelNet Canada have formed a partnership to assess Canadian solutions for the production of sustainable jet fuels with a long-term goal of supplying Air Canada....More
US regional airlines are increasingly concerned about a potential pilot shortage that could curtail their growth or even force carriers to decrease capacity....More
Preliminary results of a pilot fatigue study conducted by Washington State University (WSU) show there is a “small difference” between the fatigue level of pilots conducting multi-segment operations and those flying a longer single segment....More
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