Airlines for America (A4A), an advocate group that claims to represent major US scheduled passenger and cargo airlines, on July 31 urged the US Department of Transportation (DOT) to oppose the July 16, 2013, application of Fly Jamaica Airways and the July 18, 2013, application of Caribbean Airlines Limited (CAL) for “an exemption from 49 USC/40301 (7th Freedom) to operate scheduled service between New York-John F. Kennedy International Airport and Georgetown, Guyana.”

AMR Corporation and US Airways Group, Inc. have announced that they have gotten approval from the European Commission under the EC Merger Regulation for the mega merger.

Speaking in Cologne on Friday, Lufthansa AG’s Chief Financial Officer Simone Menne noted a second quarter operating profit that was down 27 percent to Euro 431 million, far short of the Euro 599 million that had been projected.