African low-cost carrier Fastjet has postponed its South African launch, which was originally planned for the end of May, until the beginning of July....More
Bogota-based AviancaTaca Holdings reported a first-quarter net income of $75.3 million, more than doubled from $34.9 million in the year-ago period....More
KLM is to take delivery of two Boeing 777-300ERs in spring 2015, one from Boeing and another from Air Lease, taking its total 777-300ER fleet to 10 aircraft....More
Chinese carriers reported a collective net income of CNY 1.4 billion in April, down 28.3% compared with a net profit of CNY 1.953 billion for the same month last year....More
Singapore Airlines Group (SIA) earned net income of S$379 million ($303.4 million) for its 2012-2013 fiscal year ended March 31, up 12.8% over a net profit of S$336 million in the prior fiscal year....More
Air Baltic said it slimmed its first-quarter net loss by LVL6.7 million ($12.3 million), representing a 41% improvement, although it did not specify the actual loss figure....More
As the strike by Croatia Airlines pilots and flights attendants over pay cuts stretches into its third day, Minister of Transport Sinisa Hajdas Doncic said the carrier would go bankrupt if the restructuring plan is not put into action....More
On the heels of LATAM Airlines Group’s first-quarter results, Chile-based LAN Airlines announced it completed a test flight of its Boeing 787 after installing battery modifications, paving the way for the grounded aircraft to resume operations “in the coming days.”...More
UK budget carrier easyJet has reported an interim net loss of £47 million ($71.8 million) for the six months ended March 31, narrowed from a £90 million net loss in the year-ago period....More
Lebanon’s central bank, Banque du Liban, has blocked a proposed takeover of financially troubled Cyprus Airways by Beirut-based Middle East Airlines (MEA)....More
British Airways and Iberia parent International Airlines Group (IAG) is offering €390 million worth of convertible bonds to fund its acquisition of Spanish carrier Vueling....More
Copa Holdings, parent of Panama’s Copa Airlines and Copa Airlines Colombia, posted first-quarter net income of $113.8 million, up 18.7% over net profit of $95.9 million in the year-ago period....More
Brazil’s GOL posted a first-quarter net loss of BRL75.3 million ($37.2 million), worsened from a net loss of BRL41.4 million in the year-ago quarter....More
Air India’s first of six grounded aircraft will resume commercial flights Wednesday on domestic routes and May 22 on international routes, India’s minister for civil aviation Ajit Singh said Tuesday....More
The Emirates Group reported a net profit of AED3.1 billion ($844.2 million) for its full 2012-2013 fiscal year ended March 31, up 34.3% over net income of AED2.3 billion in the prior year, on a 17.2% rise in revenue to AED77.5 billion....More
Swiss International Air Lines said six members of its extended management board have agreed to take a 5% pay cut from July 1 until the end of 2015 in the face of continued financial difficulties....More
Virgin America incurred a net loss of $145.4 million for the full year 2012, widened from a net deficit of $100.4 million in 2011, and followed those results up with a $46.4 million net loss in the 2013 first quarter....More
International Airlines Group (IAG), parent company of Iberia and British Airways, reported a sharp deterioration in its first-quarter results compared to the previous year, taking into account exceptional items....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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