NEWS Arkia Israeli Airlines Commits to Airbus A330-900s
Arkia Israeli Airlines has signed a MOU with Airbus for up to four A330-900neo aircraft, the manufacturer announced Wednesday. Link
NEWS Boeing, Korean Air Announce Order for Five 777 Freighters
SEATTLE, Feb. 12, 2015 /PRNewswire/ — Boeing [NYSE: BA] and Korean Air today finalized an order for five 777 Freighters. The order, valued at more than $1.5 billion at current list prices, will add further efficiency and reliability to Korean Air’s all-Boeing freighter fleet. Link
NEWS Boeing Sees No Business Case For 757 MAX
Whatever else Boeing may be discussing with potential customers at this year’s International Society of Transport Aircraft Trading (Istat) meeting regarding options for replacing the 757, we now at least know it will not be talking about bringing the original aircraft back to life with new engines. Link
NEWS Southwest Airlines Goes to Federal Court to Keep from Having to Share Love Field Gates With Delta
On January 30 Southwest Airlines announced that it was taking United Airlines’ two gates at Dallas Love Field, giving it 18 out of the 20 gates at the city-owned airport. But as it turns out, the Love Field-based carrier will likely have to accommodate Delta Air Lines beyond a previously agreed-to July 6 deadline. Link
NEWS Top 10 North American Scheduled Airlines by Fleet Size
Top 10 North American scheduled airlines by fleet size. Source: Aviation Week Commercial Aviation Fleet & MRO Forecast Link
NEWS Alaska Airlines Orders Six More Boeing 737-900ERs
Alaska Airlines will buy six more Boeing 737-900ERs, in an order valued at $594 million at current list prices. Four aircraft are scheduled for delivery in 2016 and two in 2017. Link
NEWS Qatar Airways Denies Staff Need Permission to Marry
Doha (AFP) – The chief of Qatar Airways, Akbar al-Baker, has furiously denied claims that its flight attendants are sacked if they get married. Link
NEWS Alitalia Begins Reinstating Long-Haul Network
Alitalia, which recently became an Etihad Airways equity partner, will resume services to South Korea after a 20-year break and has detailed plans to serve two destinations in China. Link
NEWS Delta CEO Associates Gulf Carriers With 9/11 Terrorists in Open Skies Fight
Delta CEO Richard Anderson raised the rhetoric today — or lowered it, depending on your perspective — in the increasingly acrimonious debate between legacy airlines Delta, United, and American Airlines, and their rivals Etihad, Emirates, and Qatar Airways, often referred to collectively as the Gulf carriers. Link
NEWS Timeline: Major U.S. Airline Merger Activity, 1950-2015
With American Airlines and US Airways in the process of merging, we wondered exactly how many mergers have shaped the industry into what it is today. Link
NEWS JetBlue turns 15 with new special livery
JetBlue Airways turned 15 years old last Wednesday, but the low cost carrier is celebrating with a special livery which it unveiled on Tuesday. Link
NEWS (Video) Handheld GoPro from T-38 Cockpit
Aerial footage from T-38 Talon during Sentry Savannah 15-1. Sentry Savannah is the Air National Guard’s largest Fighter Integration, Air-to-Air, training exercise encompassing fourth and fifth generation aircraft. The Air Dominance Center is hosting Sentry Savannah 15-1 which is a National Guard Bureau sponsored exercise designed to provide pilots wartime readiness training in an economical,…