Alaska Airlines today filed an application with the U.S. Department of Transportation seeking approval to fly two daily nonstop flights from its Latin America gateway of Los Angeles to Havana, Cuba. The Los Angeles metro area has the largest Cuban-American population in the Western United States. “Together with our 14 global partner airlines, Alaska Airlines … Read more
Hawaiian Holdings, the parent company of Hawaiian Airlines, has announced the resignation of Zac Hirzel from the company’s Board of Directors. Hirzel, who has helped guide the company’s unprecedented growth since joining the board in February 2014, will step off the board immediately. “Zac is a valued colleague and a staunch believer in Hawaiian Airlines’ singular brand and potential … Read more
Share Tweet Share Share Email Comments Southwest Airlines will be the first carrier to receive Boeing’s new Max version of its best-selling 737 aircraft. Those planes may sit idle unless a new contract with the carrier’s 8,000 pilots is reached. Their union says the Max isn’t listed in the current labor agreement as an aircraft … Read more
The return of supersonic passenger air travel is one step closer to reality with NASA’s award of a contract for the preliminary design of a “low boom” flight demonstration aircraft. This is the first in a series of ‘X-planes’ in NASA’s New Aviation Horizons initiative, introduced in the agency’s Fiscal Year 2017 budget. NASA Administrator … Read more
Lockheed Martin Corporation today announced that John Rood has been appointed senior vice president, Lockheed Martin International, and has been elected a corporate officer. Rood succeeds Pat Dewar, who has been appointed to senior vice president, International Strategic Initiatives, and will retire in August 2016. Both appointments are effective March 7, 2016. In his new … Read more
Share Tweet Share Share Email Comments Republic Airways Holdings Inc. doesn’t plan to cut aviators’ jobs or seek to throw out their four-month-old contract in bankruptcy court, according to the pilots union. A potential bankruptcy filing had been part of monthly discussions between leaders of Republic’s pilots union and airline executives, the International Brotherhood of … Read more
Share Tweet Share Share Email Comments Republic Airways announced today that it and certain of its subsidiaries have filed voluntary petitions for relief under Chapter 11 of the United States Bankruptcy Code. The petitions were filed in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York. Republic’s board of directors unanimously determined that … Read more
The Boeing board of directors has elected Leanne Caret president and chief executive officer of the company’s Defense, Space & Security business effective March 1. She will succeed Chris Chadwick, who has announced his retirement from the company. Caret, 49, a 28-year company veteran, currently leads that unit’s Global Services & Support business, which has approximately 13,000 … Read more
Boeing, Aeromexico and Mexico’s Airports and Auxiliary Services (ASA) will collaborate with a biojet program supported by Mexico’s Sector Fund for Energy Sustainability (SENER-CONACYT) to advance research and development of sustainable aviation biofuel in Mexico. The initiative, announced today and coordinated through the Mexican Bioenergy Innovation Center, will support Mexico’s aviation sector as well as … Read more
Today, Envoy provided employees an update to its fleet plan that will increase the number of aircraft operated by Envoy this year. “While the ultimate goal is still to have Envoy become an all-Embraer operator, American has advised us that the transfer of Bombardier CRJ-700 (CR7) aircraft from Envoy to PSA Airlines has been deferred, and … Read more