United Airlines, Wednesday, expressed confidence in its current financial outlook with the issuance of updated revenue guidance for Q3 of 2018. United now expects its Q3 consolidated passenger unit revenue growth to be near the high end of its previously reported guidance range, which, compared to Q3 2017, is expected to be up between 4% and 6%. Similarly, United is expecting its pre-tax margin (excluding special charges and the mark-to-market impact of equity investments) to be near the high end of its announced guidance of between 8% and 10%, compared to Q3 2017. The optimistic outlook comes, United said, “despite higher commodity fuel prices in Q3 pushing the expected consolidated average aircraft fuel price toward the high end of [United’s] previously provided guidance range of $2.27-$2.32 per gallon.” <br/>
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United Airlines is on a mission to help end human trafficking for sex or other purposes. The carrier issued a manifesto Wednesday that articulates the carrier’s stance on an issue the FBI has cited as the third-largest criminal activity in the world. The federal govt passed legislation in 2016 that made it mandatory for US-based airlines to train flight attendants in how to spot suspected instances of human trafficking, and what to do if they believe human trafficking is present on flights they may be working. United completed the training of all the carrier's flight attendants last year. But Wednesday the carrier said it is going further and training the remainder of its 54,000 customer-facing employees, including pilots, airport operations personal, and customer contact centre agents by the end of 2018. <br/>
Adria Airways has reported that more than 30% of flights in the 2018 first half were wet-lease services for other operators. Unveiling operational figures for the 1H, the carrier said it transported 577,000 passengers, an increase of 8.6% over the same period last year. It flew close to 10,000 flights (up 2.4% on 1H 2017), of which more than 3,300 were ACMI services. Adria said the latter figure was a “substantial” increase year-on-year, but did not give details. Load factors for the airline’s own scheduled service rose almost 2% compared to a year ago, but were still low by modern European and North American standards at 63.9%. In September, the airline plans to add 6 Saab 2000 turboprops from Jetstream Aviation Capital. It also plans to lease in more aircraft from other carriers. <br/>