Airline News

Air New Zealand is cutting 200 full time jobs in a bid to save in excess of $20 million a year.

ERLANGER - Comair today appointed a new president who has had plenty of time on the front lines of the airline business - including getting his hands in the guts of a plane, much less the industry.

The Air France-KLM Group said Thursday its profit plunged in the second quarter as higher oil prices and financial charges weighed on the airlines' earnings.

The parent company of the French and Dutch national flag carriers reported a net profit of euro28 million ($35.4 million) for the July-September period, down 96 percent from euro736 million a year earlier, when earnings were boosted by asset sales.

Air France-KLM also abandoned its operating profit target for this year, but said it would remain 'clearly in profit.' The company had warned last month that its target of euro1 billion ($1.26 billion) in operating profit would be 'very difficult' to achieve.

A federal judge in Chicago found that a summer sick-out and work slowdowns by some United Airlines pilots was an illegal job action and said she would issue a preliminary injunction against their union.

Southwest Airlines will pay $7.5 million for bankrupt ATA Airlines' landing slots at LaGuardia International Airport in a move that will strengthen its meager presence in the nation's largest market.

AMR Corp. 's American Airlines said it may buy as many as 100 Boeing Co. 787 Dreamliners in a plan that will reshape the fleet of the world's largest carrier and reinvigorate the sales campaign of the delayed ...

A US Airways Express flight made an emergency landing Sunday without its nose landing gear.

Delta Air Lines Wednesday announced bold plans for international expansion during a time of economic turbulence, and executives say Detroit stands to gain as the airline starts integrating its routes with those ...

Managers of Hagerstown Regional Airport in Maryland are planning a party for Friday evening's launch of regular flights to Orlando, Fla.

Share prices of China Eastern Airlines and China Southern Airlines were sharply higher after a report that Beijing plans to inject fresh capital into their parents.

Sen. Byron Dorgan says the president of Delta Airlines is slated to visit North Dakota to talk about the air carrier's plans now that it has acquired Northwest Airlines.

A US Airways Express flight made an emergency landing Sunday without its nose landing gear.

No injuries were reported.

The Philadelphia-bound deHavilland Dash-8 turboprop, operated by Piedmont Airlines, had taken off from Allentown at about 8:20 a.m. with 35 passengers and three crew members on board, according to officials of the airline and Philadelphia International Airport.

Before the scheduled landing at Philadelphia, the crew got an indication that the landing gear was not down and did a flyover to confirm that it had not deployed, airport spokeswoman Victoria Lupica said.

Delta Air Lines Inc., which broadened its global reach with its purchase of Northwest Airlines, plans to expand a marketing alliance with Alaska Air Group Inc., a carrier that some industry observers have ...

The problem: Can you help me with an airline reservation? I recently bought a ticket on South African Airways, through Virgin Atlantic Airways, to fly from Los Angeles to Johannesburg.

Korean Air Lines Co. posted its worst quarterly loss in 14 years because of high fuel costs and weakness in the South Korean won.

South Korea's biggest airline and the world's largest international cargo carrier said Friday it lost 684.1 billion won ($497.6 million) in the July-September quarter. Korean Air recorded net profit of 129.6 billion won a year earlier.

The last time a net loss was bigger was in 1994, according to spokeswoman Lee Ji-hye, though she could not provide a figure.

A -- Chile's largest airline says it is purchasing four Boeing 767 aircraft for $636 million.

ACE Aviation says it's unlikely to repurchase the minority stake in Air Canada that it no longer owns and still plans to wind up the holding company at some point.

Hawaiian Airlines today announced that it has acquired another new wide-body Airbus A330-200 aircraft, which joins two other A330s announced two weeks ago.

Bad economy and lower fuel prices could lead to a holiday airfare war. The price of fuel has dropped.

A Lafayette man who federal prosecutors say told a fellow passenger aboard a Northwest Airlines flight in late September that he was carrying explosives in his bag made a first appearance in U.S. District Court ...