Carriers in the [African] region continue to confront a plethora of challenges including intense competition on long-haul routes, political barriers to growing intra-African traffic, high costs and in...
IATA forecasts have a habit of being revised at regular intervals, but today at least IATA has confirmed that global airline industry profits are expected to increase by almost 12% in 2016. This incre...
Wizz Air has appointed of Wioletta Rosołowska to the Board of the Company as an independent non-executive director with effect from 1 June 2016. A Polish national, Wioletta Rosołowska is the country m...
Virgin Atlantic Cargo and Delta Cargo have signed long-term contracts with dnata to co-locate their cargo handling at London Heathrow, Manchester, Glasgow, Edinburgh and London Gatwick where the carri...
Fabrice Bregier, president and CEO of the Airbus Group, has warned that there may be delays to the A350 deliveries owing to faulty lavatory doors. He added that the company would over time remove cab...
Boeing is reported to be considering modifying the LEAP engine used on the A321neo to add to its 737 Max9 aircraft to provide more capacity and range. The US airframe manufacturer has not commented on...
GE Capital Aviation Services (GECAS) has delivered one new leased 787-9 aircraft powered by General Electric GEnx engines to Air Canada as part of a purchase-and-leaseback transaction with the airline...
Nordic Aviation Capital (NAC) has completed the closing of the first ever turboprop JOLCO financing for a lessor. The aircraft, an ATR72-600, was delivered to NAC in May, and financed with a Japanese ...
On May 31, 2016, the A320neo received on-schedule the Type Certification from the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) and Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) for the second engine option to be ce...
Monarch Aircraft Engineering Limited (MAEL), the engineering division of Monarch, the UK independent airline group, has recently completed back to back airframe maintenance on eight Boeing 787 Dreamli...
Monarch Aircraft Engineering Limited (MAEL), the engineering division of Monarch, the UK independent airline group, has been approved to add the Airbus A380 aircraft to its MRO capabilities. The addit...
On May 27, 2016, Crédit Agricole CIB (CA-CIB) arranged the commercial financing of one Airbus A321-200 aircraft bearing MSN 7143 for Avation. The aircraft will be operated by VietJet Aviation Joint St...
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