The US Department of Transportation has granted antitrust immunity for a new joint trans-Pacific airline venture to be operated by United Airlines, Continental Airlines and Japan’s ANA. The new ventur...
Transport Canada and the European Aviation Safety Agency have awarded Aircraft Type Certificates for Bombadier’s CRJ1000 NextGen regional jet. The largest member of the CRJ Series family of regional j...
XL Insurance, the global insurance operations of XL Group plc, has announced the launch of a new regional aviation underwriting group in Chicago with the appointment of Brian J Ackland to class underw...
Huntington Equipment Finance has appointed industry veterans Richard Barret and Michael Labrum to launch new specialty asset financing segments and augment growth in its equipment finance business. Wi...
Analysts at Goldman Sachs have removed Conviction Buy List status from Boeing shares, although it maintains a Buy rating and $88 price target. The investment bank said that the problems plaguing the 7...
Hawaiian Airlines has taken delivery of an Airbus A330-200 from AWAS yesterday. This is the second aircraft of this type to be delivered to the airline this year. The aircraft will initially operate o...
Jazz Air Income Fund has approved the trust’s conversion to a corporation. Some 99.9% of untiholders voted in favour of the proposed exchange of the fund’s units for shares in a new public company to ...
The US Bureau of Transportation statistics show total full-time and part-time employment was 564,221 in September, compared with August’s upwardly revised figure of 564,217. The prior-year figure was ...
Colombian flagship airline Avianca-TACA and Panama airline Copa Holdings SA (CPA) is to join Star Alliance. The alliance hopes the new members will add much needed Latin American routes to the network...
Bankrupt Mexicana has stated that it will start operations as a small airline by mid-December, pending approval of a restructured business plan by PC Capital. “The business plan proposed by PC Capital...
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has criticised Israel for its inferior aviation safety record. The association caused the safety situation a “national embarrassment” and warned of t...
Nigeria Labour Congress and Trade Union Congress staged a peaceful rally at the Murtala Muhammed Airport, Lagos yesterday in protest – the first of three days of planned strikes. Local media reports s...
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