Airline Business Confidence Survey – January 2018

We are pleased to send you herewith our latest business confidence survey of airline CFOs and heads of cargo. Key points: When surveyed in early-January, 75% of airline CFOs and Heads of Cargo indicated an improvement in year-on-year profitability in Q4 2017 compared with the same period in 2016. The majority (56%) reported that they […]

SLC airport set another record for passengers in 2017

Salt Lake City International Airport set another record for passengers last year, logging more than 24 million passengers for the first time. The airport reported Monday that the total number of passengers that passed through it in 2017 was 24,196,816, up by 4.5 percent. The vast majority of those were domestic passengers: 23.29 million, up […]

The Boeing Company Looks Set for Another Great Year

The Boeing Company (NYSE:BA) stock had an outstanding 2017 as the company benefited from ongoing strength in the industry and internal execution on its aircraft platforms. In order to assess whether the company will have a similarly successful year in 2018, it’s useful to look at what went right last year and the trends going […]

New Airline Coming Soon to Northwest Florida

The world’s largest airline just announced it will be landing right here at Northwest Florida Beaches International. News 13’s Peyton LoCicero was live from the unveiling. «The announcement of American Airlines give us four major airlines. Four legacy airlines will now operate, will operate by this summer at ECP,» said Parker McClellan, Airport Executive Director. […]

Unruly passengers on planes still a challenge – report

The issue of unruly passengers remains a significant daily challenge in the airline industry around the world, according to Tim Colehan, assistant director of external affairs at the International Air Transport Association (Iata). Between 2007 and 2016 more than 58 000 incidents involving unruly passengers were reported to Iata, an analysis by the organisation shows. […]

Deutsche Telekom and Lufthansa make flying smarter

The future of flying starts now: over a period of several months, the finalists of the «Telekom Fashion Fusion & Lufthansa FlyingLab» fashion and technology competition worked at Fab Lab Berlin on intelligent solutions for the flight experience of tomorrow. Today, three prototypes were presented and tested onboard a Lufthansa Airbus A380 on its flight […]

Boeing-Embraer Talks Have Not Settled Question Of Control: Sources

Tie-up talks between Boeing Co and Embraer SA have not settled key questions such as control of the Brazilian planemaker or the possibility of a more narrow joint venture, two people familiar with the negotiations told Reuters, pushing back against a newspaper report on Tuesday. Brazilian newspaper Valor Economico had reported that the talks have […]

How DFW Airport won the top passenger experience in North America title

At DFW International Airport, taking care of the 180,000 or so passengers who pass through each day starts in a windowless room tucked away in Terminal D. There, a team of about 12 people tracks the flow of travelers throughout the airport"™s five terminals while monitoring social media, email and phone lines to address issues […]

Airline to sue unruly passengers for flight delay

Three unruly Japanese passengers have been blacklisted by China Airlines and are facing legal action by the airline. A China Airlines flight last week from Taiwan to Bangkok was forced to turn back to Taoyuan International Airport after alleged drunken antics by the three passengers. They have been accused of trying to smoke on the […]