American Airlines’ parent company AMR Corporation has reported financial results for 4Q and the year ending December 31, 2012. There was a full-year net loss of $1.9bn; excluding reorganisation and special items, full-year net loss was $130m – a ...
Gulf Air has announced a restructuring strategy which it hopes will “take the airline on a path towards sustainability and support the future economic development of Bahrain”. A new board of directors has been in place since November 2012. The...
United Airlines has broken ground on a new widebody aircraft maintenance hangar at Newark Liberty International Airport. The airline is investing more than $25m in the 90,000ft2 facility, which is due to be completed by the end of 2013. Joe...
United Airlines has introduced on-board satellite-based Wi-Fi internet connectivity on the first of its international widebody aircraft, becoming the first US-based international carrier to offer this service. The Panasonic Avionics Corporation...
Vector Aerospace Engine Services-Atlantic (Vector) and Twin Jet, based in Aix en Provence, France, have signed a 10-year agreement for an engine maintenance hourly rate programme. Vector will provide PT6A-67D engine support to Twin Jet’s...
Air France is to deploy Boeing’s Electronic Flight Bag (EFB) system software on its 747-400 fleet in Q2 2013. The EFB is the first Boeing software solution designed to work on third-party class 2 hardware, already extensively in use at Air...
Aviation Partners Boeing (APB) has launched its new Split Scimitar winglet programme with an order from United Airlines. This will involve retrofitting existing 737NG Blended Winglets by replacing the aluminium winglet tip cap with the new...
Jetstar Japan has announced three new domestic destinations. It will start flying from Tokyo to Oita, Fukuoka to Nagoya and Sapporo to Nagoya from March 31 with return flights to Kagoshima from Tokyo and Nagoya starting on May 31. Jayne Hrdlicka...
GE Aviation has secured a $145m engine order from Syphax Airlines. The carrier has selected the CFM International’s LEAP-1A and CFM56-5B engines to power three A320neos and three A319/A320ceo aircraft, respectively. On Monday, AFM reported...
