Tag: capacity

American Airlines has offered to pay $45 million to end its role in a long-running class-action lawsuit against several carriers, making the move to avoid what it feared could be costly litigation, not in an admission of guilt. "Despite our...

The world is running out of trained pilots. With growing fleets, an aging workforce, training challenges, and fewer pilots leaving the military for commercial aviation, companies cannot solve this problem by throwing money at it. And airlines don"™t have time...

Global airlines, coming off a record-low accident rate in 2017, need to guard against complacency over safety as heavy growth in travel demand stretches the air transport system, industry leaders warned at a conference last week. There were no jet...

Rising fuel costs and currency fluctuations are looming challenges for Brazilian airlines, but two of the country"™s largest airlines feel reasonably confident that they can weather those difficulties "“ in part, due to stable demand in the country. That demand...

Sky Airline to take delivery of its first A320neo in September 2018, confirmed CEO Holger Paulmann, with all 12 on order due by end of 2019. By the end of 2020, the Chilean airline’s entire fleet will consist of only...

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 of...

Azul S.A., “Azul”, (B3: AZUL4, NYSE: AZUL), the largest airline in Brazil by number of cities served, announces today its preliminary traffic results for April 2018. Consolidated passenger traffic (RPKs) increased 17.2% compared to April 2017 on a capacity increase...

Copa Holdings, S.A. (NYSE: CPA), today announced financial results for the first quarter of 2018 (1Q18). The terms ‘Copa Holdings’ and ‘the Company’ refer to the consolidated entity. The following financial information, unless otherwise indicated, is presented in accordance with...

LATAM Airlines Group S.A. and its subsidiaries, (“LATAM Airlines Group” or “the Company”) (NYSE: LTM / IPSA:LTM), the leading airline group in Latin America, today reported its preliminary monthly traffic statistics for April 2018 compared to April 2017. System passenger...

Gol Linhas Aereas Inteligentes S.A. GOL reported air traffic figures for April. Consolidated traffic, measured in revenue passenger kilometers (RPK), nudged up 1.9% to 2.76 billion. The metric rose 3% on the domestic front while the international figure declined 7.2%....