Low-cost carrier Pegasus Airlines will launch new routes from Istanbul Sabiha Gokcen to Spain’s Madrid and Germany’s Frankfurt in March 2014. Frankfurt is Pegasus’ 7th destination in Germany, followin...
Lufthansa is seeking to block any agreement between Alitalia and Etihad Airways since any tie-up would amount to unfair competition since it involves subsidies from state-owned companies from outside ...
The German Vereinigung Cockpit union is currently balloting its members over whether Lufthansa and Germanwings pilots should strike over the continuing dispute over pay. The results will be announced ...
In 2011, 2012 and 2013 we warned you all of the problems that will come to pass if the general public and politicians latch onto the fact that mobile phone batteries are very dangerous to aircraft. Ov...
Kingfisher Airlines is appealing against a winding-up petition filed by a European aviation parts supplier Aerotron, which is an unsecured creditor of the company. Besides Aerotron, five groups of cre...
A weak yen and high fuel costs has impacted profits at both All Nippon Airlines (ANA) and Japan Airlines (JAL). ANA net profit dropped by 36% to 33.3 billion yen between April and December, mainly due...
Lessor Palma Holding (Palma) has signed a firm purchase agreement for four dual-class Q400 NextGen aircraft. The agreement, which also includes options for an additional four Q400 NextGen aircraft, fo...
Aventure Aviation has purchased its first aircraft for teardown, a wide-body Boeing 767-300ER, MSN 24952 from the Bank of Utah and Aeroturbine, Inc. The aircraft will be dismantled for parts at Aerotu...
Apollo Aviation Group (Apollo Aviation), a multi-strategy aviation investment manager specialising in mid-life and mature aircraft, has contracted to purchase five aircraft for US$53 million in the fo...
Jet Airways is likely to be adversely affected by United Airlines decision to suspend its codeshare with the Indian carrier since Jet earns 15% of its revenue from interline and codeshare sales. The c...
Chairman of the EL AL Board of Directors Amikam Cohen has announced the Appointment of David Maimon as the New EL AL CEO. Maimon will replace Brigadier General (Res) Elyezer Shkedy who is ending his t...
Flydubai could seek to finance its forthcoming aircraft delivery with funds raise via a bond issuance, which could take the form of a sukuk of a benchmark size of at least $500million. Eager to divers...
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