Airline news
Porter Airlines Operates Bombardier Q400 Aircraft in Canada’s First Biofuel-Powered Revenue Flight
Porter Airlines today successfully conducted the first biofuel-powered revenue flight in Canada. In the successful conclusion to a test program that was launched in 2010, the airline flew one of its Bombardier Q400 turboprops f...
Airline On-Time Performance, Cancellation Rate in February Improve from Last Year; Mishandled Baggage Rate at All-Time Low
No Tarmac Delays Longer than Three Hours on Domestic Flights or Longer than Four Hours on International Flights in February The nation’s largest airlines posted an on-time arrival rate of 86.2 percent in February, up from...
Turkish Airlines Decorates Boeing 737-800 with Faces of 17,000 of Its Employees
To show the companys appreciation for its staff, Turkish Airlines decorated the side of a new Boeing 737-800 airplane with the faces of 17,000 of its employees. The entire project, which took four months to complete, was made...
Spirit Aero To Resume Partial Shipments
Spirit AeroSystems, which makes the fuselage for Boeing’s 737 and key parts of other planes, said on Tuesday it expects to resume limited production and partial shipments this week after a tornado damaged its Wichita faci...
SAS Sees More Airline Consolidation
A global economic slowdown and high jet fuel prices will push the airline industry into a new wave of consolidation, the chief executive of Scandinavian airline SAS, itself a possible takeover target, said on Tuesday. European ...
Alitalia To Appeal Rome-Milan Slot Ruling
Alitalia said it would appeal a ruling by Italy’s antitrust authority that said it, along with its unit AirOne, was running a monopoly on the highly profitable Rome-Milan route and must give up some slots. The authority, ...
