Aviation Daily Editor Mark Nensel speaks with Bill Franke of Indigo Partners, after he was recognized with the 2019 ATW Leadership Excellence award in New York.
ATW Editor-in-Chief Karen Walker speaks with Lufthansa Group CEO Carsten Spohr, after his company was presented with the 2019 Airline of the Year award in New York.
Industry CEOs and leaders, including the heads of Lufthansa Group and Indigo Partners, spoke about the importance of people, sustainability and connecting the world as they were celebrated at the 45th ATW Airline Industry Achievement Awards in New York.
AirAsia X Group is considering launching routes to Europe and the US west coast over the next two years, using its initial deliveries of Airbus A330neos.
Latvian hub and spoke carrier airBaltic is aiming to triple its passenger numbers and revenue by 2025, if it goes ahead with plans to exercise 30 Airbus A220 options.
Norwegian Air Shuttle has temporarily halted ticket sales for routes normally serviced by the Boeing 737 MAX to ensure the LCC can “meet customer expectations” in its latest update since the aircraft type’s grounding by aviation authorities around the world.
Despite a record-breaking year in terms of passenger numbers, Montenegro Airlines foresees another challenging year, president Nikola Vukićević said March 27.
A spike in flight cancellations linked to several unrelated issues will drive Southwest Airlines’ year-over-year first-quarter non-fuel unit costs up 10%, or 4% higher than its previous guidance, and will cost the carrier about $150 million in lost revenue, the airline said March 27.
Cathay Pacific is poised to enter Asia’s LCC market after announcing a deal to purchase 100% of Hong Kong Express (HKE) and operate it as a subsidiary.
Identification of in-service issues with the Boeing 737 MAX maneuvering characteristics augmentation system (MCAS) flight control law follows a common pattern for newly certified products, and does not signal errors made during the system’s design and risk analysis, FAA Acting Administrator Dan Elwell told a Senate panel March 27.
China Aviation Supplies Holding Co. (CAS) has signed a general terms agreement (GTA) with Airbus for 290 A320 family aircraft and 10 A350s, in one of the Toulouse-based manufacturer’s biggest narrowbodies deals.
Icelandic ultra-LCC WOW Air has won approval from its bondholders to convert debt to equity following the recent collapse of talks with two potential investors.
Boeing is confident that sales of its Boeing 777X family, which it views as solid, will move at a steady pace, underscoring airlines’ shifting widebody ordering patterns.
Taiwan’s EVA Air will begin Boeing 787-9 operations to Europe from May 9 on its 4X-weekly Taipei Taoyuan-Bangkok-Vienna route, as well its 3X-weekly Taipei-Vienna nonstop service.
Airbus’ Skywise data sharing and analysis platform could double to 100 airline customers this year, top Airbus executives reportedly told an investor conference March 20.
Belavia Belarusian Airlines will resume flights between Minsk and Moscow Sheremetyevo International Airport beginning April 22 with twice-daily Embraer E195 service.
AirAsia X is working with Airbus on details of a potential order for longer-range versions of the A321neo, with discussions covering issues such as configuration, quantity, timing and variant.
UK-based long-haul specialist Virgin Atlantic will open its first service to South America in 2020, with flights between London Heathrow and São Paulo, Brazil.
Nav Canada began space-based tracking of aircraft flying in the eastern part of its Edmonton flight information region (FIR) March 25, marking the first operational use of the Aireon surveillance system carried by new Iridium Next satellites.
ATW speaks with Martin Gauss, the CEO of Airline Market Leader award winner airBaltic, about the Latvian carrier's second consecutive ATW Market Leader award and his plans for future growth.
