Canada sets new all-time heat record of 121 degrees amid unprecedented heat wave
The British Columbia village of Lytton set the country’s heat record for a third straight day Tuesday, after Portland and… Read More »
United Airlines makes its largest ever jet order and replace aircraft due to retire
United Airlines is making its largest ever plane order, plans to buy 270 Boeing and Airbus planes as well as… Read More »
United Airlines is spending big on Boeing and Airbus jets powered by GE engines
United Airlines is making a huge order for hundreds of new jets from Boeing and Airbus. The order is the largest in the carrier’s history and has… Read More »
U.S. Extended-Stay Occupancy Nearly Reaches ’19 Level
Occupancy at U.S. extended-stay hotels in April returned almost entirely to April 2019 levels, recovering from the effects of the… Read More »
Riga Airport: Weekly Update
This week Riga Airport connects passengers to 83 destinations RIX Weekly Update! Adding many wonderful leisure destinations as well as… Read More »
Updates on the 2021 summer season from the Milan Airports
Passengers return to fly from Milan airports to seasonal destinations of summer 2021 and to some destinations that had previously… Read More »
Iceland’s PLAY raises $274mn in IPO
Icelandic budget start-up PLAY (OG, Reykjavik Keflavik) has raised ISK33.8 billion krónur (USD274 million) in fresh capital from about 4,600… Read More »
US’s Envoy Air takes first E170
Envoy Air (MQ, Dallas/Fort Worth) has taken delivery of its first E170, N761RW (msn 17000296), although the aircraft remains in… Read More »
CAL to restructure ops in Trinidad & Tobago, Jamaica
The announced restructuring of Caribbean Airlines (BW, Port of Spain) will affect its operations in both Trinidad & Tobago, and… Read More »
Czechia’s Smartwings files MAX lawsuit against Boeing
Smartwings (Czechia) (QS, Prague Václav Havel) has filed a lawsuit against Boeing (BOE, Chicago O’Hare) for the damage done to… Read More »
Australia’s Maroomba Airlines to add maiden Q300
Maroomba Airlines (Perth Int’l) is set to add its first DHC-8-Q300, ch-aviation research has revealed. At 18.7 years old, OY-CJY… Read More »
Korean Air to float “green” bonds to fund B787 purchase
Korean Air (KE, Seoul Incheon) will issue “green” bonds as part of its KRW200 billion won (USD176 million) corporate debenture… Read More »
FedEx firms up twenty B767 freighter options
FedEx Express (FX, Memphis Int’l) firmed up twenty B767-300F options with Boeing (BOE, Chicago O’Hare) on June 22 bringing its… Read More »
Ryanair acquires easyJet’s winter slots at Stansted
Ryanair (FR, Dublin Int’l) has acquired 296 weekly slots at London Stansted from easyJet (U2, London Luton) for the Winter… Read More »
Indonesia’s Super Air Jet secures AOC
Super Air Jet (IU) has completed its AOC certification drive, the Indonesian civil aviation authority (Direktur Jenderal Perhubungan Udara –… Read More »
Lufthansa to reactivate A340-600s due to premium demand
Lufthansa (LH, Frankfurt Int’l) has announced it will reactivate part of its mothballed A340-600 fleet in 2022 due to a… Read More »
StandardAero selected by Embraer to support E-Jet E1 APUs
StandardAero has been selected by Embraer to provide maintenance, repair, and overhaul (MRO) services for Pratt & Whitney Canada… Read More »
BOC Aviation delivers three A321neos to Scoot
BOC Aviation Limited is pleased to announce that it has delivered three of four new Airbus A321NEO aircraft for lease… Read More »
GE’s Slattery believes hydrogen power is the ‘Real Nirvana’
The head of GE Aviation John Slattery, has expressed confidence that everybody across the air transport business, including airlines, believes… Read More »
Aeroflot CFO sees no need for new borrowing for now
Russian airline Aeroflot does not see the need for new borrowing in the near future after creating a safety cushion… Read More »
Kazakhstan’s SCAT Airlines Moves to Sabre Res Platform
Kazakhstani carrier SCAT Airlines is moving to Sabre’s passenger reservations system SabreSonic and its commercial platform per a new agreement… Read More »
Boeing 777X ‘realistically’ will not win certification approval before mid-2023
The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has told Boeing Co (BA.N) that its planned 777X is not yet ready for a significant… Read More »
Canadian aero suppliers face labor crunch as travel rebounds
Canadian aerospace firms are struggling to hire back workers to meet resurgent travel demand in the latest evidence of a… Read More »
Cathay Pacific forecasts reduced monthly cash burn in the second half of 2021
Hong Kong’s Cathay Pacific Airways expects to reduce its cash burn to less than HK$1 billion ($128.84 million) a month… Read More »
Super Air Jet of Indonesia will be flying soon
In early May, our “airline startup of the week” was Super Air Jet of Indonesia. The airline, with its connections to the… Read More »
Bain Capital to acquire 16% stake in Icelandair
Bain Capital is to acquire a 16% stake in the Icelandair Group by buying new shares for ISKL8 billion krona… Read More »