Pricing strategy is an airline"™s overall approach to maximize revenues. As well, it is a mechanism for bringing supply and demand into an equilibrium at a particular price and quantity while minimizing overbooking and unsold seat inventory. In the…
Revenue momentum for the three large global network airlines should continue into 2Q2018 with international entities leading the charge. American, Delta and United all believe their trans-Atlantic entities should be revenue leaders in the quarter, which is the start…
BOEING Co has dispatched a prominent executive to help Rolls-Royce Holdings plc work through escalating engine problems that have grounded dozens of 787 Dreamliners. Keith Leverkuhn is serving as Boeing’s eyes and ears at Rolls factories in Singapore and…
Efforts within the air transport sector to overcome stigma attached to mental health problems are progressing but work is still needed to achieve parity of treatment between psychological and physical illness. The deliberate crash of a Germanwings Airbus A320…
Irish LCC Ryanair is continuing to plan for a "hard Brexit," by limiting the voting rights of non-EU shareholders and setting up a UK air operator"™s certificate, which should be granted by the end of 2018. "We remain concerned…
Russia is formally to be held responsible by the Dutch and Australian governments for the destruction of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 over Ukraine four years ago. The Netherlands and Australia are two of the five participant states "“ along…
Lufthansa Group has firmed-up a previous option for six further Airbus A320neo, following a decision by the company"™s supervisory board at the beginning of May. The latest agreement brings Lufthansa Group"™s total order for the A320neo to 122 (77…
A long-awaited open-skies agreement between the USA and Brazil has entered into force, the US Department of Transportation (DOT) confirms to FlightGlobal. The deal took effect after an exchange of diplomatic notes between the two governments on 21 May,…
China"™s aviation regulator will ease its policy of having only one airline on a long-haul international route from 1 October, paving the way for greater competition in the segment. In a statement on its website, the Civil Aviation Administration…
Commenting on the Secretary of State for Transport"™s latest statement on Heathrow airport expansion, IAG chief executive, Willie Walsh said: "The Secretary of State"™s challenge to Heathrow to keep expansion costs low and provide value-for-money for consumers…
