Aviation

  AP Frontier Airlines says its chief operating officer (COO) left the company, the second high-level departure in less than a month at the budget airline. A Frontier spokesman confirmed that Bill Meehan stepped down last week and was replaced temporarily by Jim Nides, the company’s vice president of flight operations. Meehan joined Frontier in 2014 after being CEO of ...

  DOHA / Reuters Saudi Arabia appointed a new chairman of Saudi Arabian Airlines (Saudia) by royal decree in a management shake-up. Ghassan bin Abdulrahman Al Shabal was appointed chairman of the board of directors of the state-owned airline, said Saudi state news agency (SPA). Shabal will replace Sulaiman Al Hamdan, according to the airline’s website. SPA said representatives of ...

  Bloomberg For those who insist that traveling is all about the journey, we say this: It really depends on which carrier you’re flying. Aside from variations in cabins and service quality, there’s the major concern of how likely you are to get delayed. Fly on the wrong airline and your odds of a delay are as high as 55 ...

  Roy Kinnear was appointed as Chief Executive Officer of Air Seychelles on July 1, 2015. Kinnear joins Air Seychelles from strategic partner Etihad Airways, where he held the position of Senior Vice President, Revenue Management and Planning, and was responsible for leading the airline’s revenue management, inventory control, pricing, and revenue forecasting. Having gained an honours degree in Economics ...

  DOHA / Emirates Business Qatar Airways is sponsoring the first-class 7-star cinema experience at iconic Novo Cinemas across Qatar, Bahrain and United Arab Emirates, introducing customers within the region to a luxury entertainment experience. The seven-star service includes valet parking, luxury lounges and special gourmet food menu ordered from fully reclining leather seats. Each seat comes with an iPad, ...

  PARIS / Reuters Airbus said on Sunday Iran’s state airline IranAir had accepted its first new jet, marking a key step in opening up trade under a nuclear sanctions deal between Iran and major powers. The Airbus A321 jetliner has been painted in IranAir livery and is expected to be delivered later this week. “The technical acceptance has been ...

  Bloomberg British Airways (BA) promised to carry all passengers booked to fly during a two-day walkout over pay by cabin crew next week, though some people will have to catch different departures. The “vast majority” of services to and from London Heathrow, where the protesting crews are based, will operate as normal, and flights from the U.K. capital’s Gatwick ...

  Bloomberg EasyJet Plc’s passenger count increased at less than half the pace of its low-cost rivals last year as Europe’s second-biggest discount carrier struggled with its exposure to the British and French travel markets. Customer numbers increased 6.6 percent to 74.4 million in 2016, Luton, England-based EasyJet said. That compares with a 15 percent gain at low-cost leader Ryanair ...

  Bloomberg Indian budget airline SpiceJet Ltd. is poised to order at least 92 Boeing Co. 737 jetliners as the carrier plots rapid expansion in the world’s fastest growing aerospace market. The transaction, which would more than double SpiceJet’s 40-plane fleet, may be closed within weeks after lengthy talks that pitted Boeing against rival Airbus Group SE, people with direct ...

  Bloomberg Aggressive growth strategies at Europe’s leading discount carriers are poised to overthrow the region’s established airline order. Ryanair Holdings Plc, already Europe’s top low-cost operator, boosted its passenger tally 15 percent to 117 million in 2016, a figure that’s set to give it the biggest annual tally of any carrier in the region, ahead of Deutsche Lufthansa AG, ...