As US Congress prepares to hold hearings on airline customer service, the practice of overbooking flights is coming under scrutiny with airline policies being closely watched....More
Japan Airlines (JAL) reported a net profit of ¥164.1 billion ($1.5 billion) for fiscal 2016 through March 31, down 6% compared to net profit of ¥174.4 billion in the previous year....More
All Nippon Airways Holdings (ANA) reported a ¥98.8 billion ($889 million) net profit for fiscal 2016, up 26.4% from net profit of ¥78.1 billion in the previous year....More
Russian aircraft manufacturer Irkut Corp. reported a 2016 net income of RUB1.2 billion ($20 million), reversed from a RUB2.3 billion net loss in the year-ago period....More
Lufthansa Group subsidiaries Swiss International Air Lines (SWISS), Austrian Airlines and Lufthansa will abolish a rule requiring two people in the cockpit, effective May 1....More
United Parcel Service (UPS) posted a $1.2 billion net profit for the first quarter of 2017, up 2.4% from net income of $1.1 billion in 1Q 2016, on a 6.2% year-over-year rise in total company revenue to $15.3 billion....More
Let’s start with today’s good news for United. The CEO issued a full apology for the awful bumped-then-dragged passenger incident, took full responsibility and promised a full review of the company’s crew transport and over-booking procedures....More
Technology provider Thales is hoping to automate new movie releases on its AVANT inflight entertainment (IFE) system from around 2020 and to introduce live TV replay functionality by 2018....More
Technology provider Thales has signed a contract with an unnamed customer, covering its entire suite of inflight entertainment and connectivity (IFEC) products, which should be made public by June....More
UK-based aircraft lighting specialist STG Aerospace has certified a square reading light and secured floor path lighting contracts with China Eastern Airlines and Icelandair....More