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American Airlines and Hawaiian Airlines are weighing in against different aspects of Delta Air Lines and United Airlines applications for new service to China. American objects to Delta's request for 7 weekly frequencies for a new daily flight to Shanghai Pudong from Minneapolis/St Paul, the airline says in a filing with the US DoT. It argues that the regulator cannot grant the frequencies, and a similar one by United, without denying its own request for a dormancy waiver. Hawaiian, on the other hand, objects to both Delta and United's request for a start-up date in 2020 for their proposed new routes to China, in a separate filing on the same day. Granting the requests would be a tacit endorsement of the airlines' "warehousing" the frequencies for nearly 2 years, it argues. <br/>

IAG's Iberia is moving out of survival mode and looking to Latin America as a key pillar of the carrier’s future strategy. “In 2012, we were talking about losing jobs, about survival. Now we are not talking about that; we’re talking about development,” Iberia chairman and CE Luis Gallego said Nov 2. Over the past 5 years, Iberia has restructured the company’s business under the Plan de Futuro initiative, which has improved revenues, cut costs and optimised the airline’s processes, fleet and network. Since 2012, these measures have led to a E728m (US$830.8m) EBIT improvement, shifting from a E351m loss to a E377m profit—a result Gallego described as “outstanding.” And punctuality has also improved from 74% to 90%. <br/>