Europe Lends Aviation Expertise To Latin America

A European Union (EU)-funded initiative—the EU-Latin America Cooperation on Civil Aviation—aims at strengthening ties between the two regions. The four-year, €7 million ($8.2 million) project is managed by the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) and will encourage greater utilization of EU standards in Latin America, increase European market access to the region and bolster the […]
American Airlines Cargo achieves record-setting quarter

Driven by nearly 350 million pounds of freight, up from 318 million the same time last year, American Airlines Cargo achieved record-setting growth in the second quarter, while also posting a record month in June. Several key trends contributed to the record month and quarter. Ecommerce related movements continue to support significant growth across the […]
Delta Air Lines Launches Tampa Bay to Amsterdam Service

Yesterday, Delta Air Lines and Tampa International Airport gathered to announce a new service between Tampa and Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport, giving Tampa its fifth European destination. The new service will kick off on May 25, 2019 and will fly every day in the summer and four to five times a week during the rest of […]
Lufthansa tops ranking of Europe’s 30 biggest airlines

What are Europe’s biggest airlines? We decided to take a look. There are several data sets that could be used to rank them. Among the options: revenue, fleet size, passengers flown and carrying capacity. We opted for the latter, going with a ranking based on “available seat miles» (ASMs). ASMs are a standard industry measure […]
IATA prepará primera versión de Wings of Change en Europa

Wings of Change, el principal evento de aviación de Latinoamérica y El Caribe organizado por la Asociación de Transporte Aéreo Internacional (IATA, por sus siglas en inglés), presentará su primera versión europea. El evento se realizará el 13 y 14 de noviembre, en Madrid y contará con la participación de importantes representantes de la aviación […]
IATA called European policy-makers to take urgent action to ensure Europe avoids infrastructure crisis

Alexandre de Juniac, IATA’s Director General and CEO addressed the 36th Plenary of the European Civil Aviation Conference (ECAC) today. Highlights of the speech include the following: Infrastructure De Juniac called on European policy-makers to take urgent action to ensure that Europe avoids an infrastructure crisis by: Addressing the airport capacity crunch Modernizing airspace management […]
IATA and ACI see scope for airport charges arbitrator

IATA DG Alexandre de Juniac and Airports Council International (ACI) DG Angela Gittens see potential for independent oversight of airport charge disputes and for airports to have greater involvement in slot allocations. Speaking at the ACI Europe and World General Assembly in Brussels on June 20, de Juniac and Gittens agreed that regulation "infantilize" both […]
IATA figures show dominance of Ryanair in Europe
Ryanair carried more passengers than easyJet and British Airways combined last year, according to figures just released from IATA. The latest World Airline Transport Statistics show Ryanair flew more than 128 million customers last year, the highest number of any European airline. EasyJet was the second largest, with 77 million passengers, and Lufthansa was the […]
IATA Airlines Financial Monitor – April 2018

We are pleased to send you herewith the April report of the Airlines Financial Monitor. Key points: The initial data for Q1 2018 indicate a pick-up in airline financial performance relative to the same period a year ago. The improvement was broad-based, with every region except Europe posting a widening in their EBIT margin. Despite […]
ACI reveals a 4.9% rise in global passenger traffic this january

ACI World reports that global passenger traffic increased by 4.9% in January 2018 compared with the same month a year ago. It points out that the figure would have been even higher if this year’s Lunar New Year, which fell in February, had taken place in January like it did in 2017. Higher passenger traffic […]