Dubai-based Emirates and New York-based JetBlue Airways plan to expand their current partnership to include bilateral codesharing, subject to regulatory approvals....More
Norwegian Air Shuttle continues its European expansion as it taps into the Germany-Spain market, which is dominated by Air Berlin and Condor Airlines on leisure routes....More
Norwegian Air Shuttle has partnered with Virgin Atlantic Airways, tapping the UK carrier for advice on long-haul operations in return for Boeing 787 pilot training....More
United Airlines, the US launch customer for the Boeing 787 with six in its fleet, said it will restart Dreamliner service May 20 with domestic flights....More
US Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said Friday that DOT’s legislation introduced at the end of April will prevent further air traffic controller furloughs and keep open low activity towers that were slated for closure under congressional budget cuts....More
An influential group of British lawmakers has spoken out in favor of expanding London Heathrow Airport with a third—and perhaps even a fourth—runway....More
The European Transport Workers’ Federation (ETF) is planning a European Action Day June 12 to demand “the establishment of a fair, cooperative and social Single European Sky (SES),” it said....More
Brazil’s GOL has expanded its codeshare on Delta Air Line flights between Brasília and Atlanta, Ga., which is considered a key milestone in the partnership....More
All Nippon Airways (ANA), launch customer for the Boeing 787, said it will resume Dreamliner services from June 1, following the completion of a series of battery system modifications, safety checks and test flights....More
Hochtief AirPort—which owns stakes in Athens, Budapest, Dusseldorf, Hamburg, Sydney and Tirana airports—will be sold to Canadian pension fund manager PSP Investments....More
IATA’s Operations Committee (OPC) has identified air traffic management (ATM) capacity and efficiency improvements as well as harmonizing safety regulation as priority areas for the association....More
Shoreham-based carrier Brighton City Airways has been forced to suspend its recently launched services to Paris Pontoise due to lack of customs and immigration facilities at the French airport....More
The much-delayed opening of the Berlin Brandenburg Airport costs an additional €35 million-€40 million ($46 million-$52.4 million) per month, the German newspaper Handelsblatt reported....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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