WASHINGTON, DC – OAG reports in the July 2010 edition of OAG FACTS that scheduled airline seat capacity within and to and from the Asia Pacific region has the highest growth this month and year-to-date. (more…)

MONTREAL, QC – Bombardier Aerospace today announced the purchase of a Learjet 85 jet full-flight simulator from CAE, an important step in the Learjet 85 aircraft program and in the expansion of Bombardier’s worldwide pilot and maintenance training network. (more…)

MONTREAL, QC – Bombardier Aerospace today announced that the highly acclaimed Bombardier Safety Standdown, held annually in Wichita, Kansas, since 1996, and in Geneva, Switzerland since 2007, will also take place this year in Brazil. (more…)

MONTREAL, QUEBEC – CAE today announced that it was awarded C$55 million at list prices in new training solutions contracts with Bombardier, ATR, Vietnam Airlines, and a U.S.-based legacy airline. The contracts include the sale of four full-flight simulator orders which bring the total FFS sales that CAE has announced during fiscal year 2011 to six. (more…)

CALGARY, AB – WestJet today announced June 2010 traffic results with a load factor of 78.2 per cent. Revenue passenger miles or traffic increased 19.0 per cent year over year, and capacity, measured in available seat miles, grew 10.9 per cent over the same period. (more…)

WASHINGTON, DC – The U.S. Department of Transportation today awarded four routes to Tokyo’s downtown Haneda Airport to American Airlines at New York, Delta Air Lines at Los Angeles and Detroit, and Hawaiian Airlines at Honolulu, with service to begin when the airport’s fourth runway becomes operational later this year. (more…)

CALGARY, AB – WestJet today announced that it is expanding its self-service options to include self-serve baggage tagging, the latest in the airline’s suite of self-service products, to other airports across Canada. (more…)

WINNIPEG, MB – On Saturday, July 3, 2010 Winnipeg James Armstrong Richardson International Airport welcomed its first passengers; Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II and His Royal Highness, the Duke of Edinburgh. (more…)

ROME, ITALY – Alitalia, Italy’s leading airline, today joined the Air France-KLM Group and Delta Air Lines as a member of the airline industry’s leading trans-Atlantic joint venture. (more…)

GENEVA – The International Air Transport Association announced international scheduled traffic statistics for May which showed an 11.7% increase in passenger traffic and a 34.3% jump in freight demand compared to May 2009. (more…)