Following the high-profile drubbing of lessors and their products by Malaysian Airlines Group (MAG) last week and the threat to fold Malaysian Airlines and move all the assets into Firefly, the CEO Iz...
Erik G. Braathen along with ex-Norwegian pilots, Brede Huser and Thomas Ramdahl, are starting-up a new Norwegian-based airline with leased aircraft (see more in Europe News below). This news comes jus...
AirAsia Japan has shuttered operations. In a statement, representative director and COO, Jun Aida, wrote: "Despite our unrelenting efforts to sustain operations through successive and wide-ranging cos...
It is D-Day for the US airline industry as at the stroke of midnight yesterday the US Payroll Support Program (CARES Act) expired. As it did so, airlines across America had no alternative but to send ...
Egypt’s Finance Ministry has confirmed that it will be propping up the flag carrier EgyptAir with a guarantee of long-term financing of E£3bn ($191m). At the same time the Egyptian Presidency signed i...
I have searched a great deal for an upbeat airline story so far this week – this task is not an easy one. Airline shares across the board are being shorted (save for Ryanair) and that is the primary r...
As the last Qantas A380 to be refurbished flies straight out into the desert we have to ask how long it will be before we see that aircraft in service again, if ever. Meanwhile on Friday (Sept.25), ea...
Airbus and Boeing have it in their power to take significant pressure off of the market by collapsing production rates and slowing the entry of aircraft into the market. The continuing delays in the M...
When assessing the current aviation market, the spotlight of worries falls upon the smaller independent airlines, which seem to have taken a great deal of stick in the press of late, while the flag ca...
In this market, indeed in this world at the moment, planning for the future is no easy task, but plan for it we must. For airlines and lessors the news from Airbus on the zero-emissions aircraft this ...
A number of US and European airlines announced major reductions in schedule as passengers demand remains weak in the face of COVID 19. In the US, United said Q3 capacity would be 70% lower than the sa...
Major airlines want the US and British governments to launch a passenger testing trial for COVID 19 for flights between London and New York to pave the way for a resumption of more international trav...
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