Pilots endorse EASA’s airworthiness directive on 737 MAX
The European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) is clearing the Boeing 737 MAX to fly after nearly two-year grounding. The Airworthiness Directive issued today concludes… Read More »
Alaska Airlines takes first B737 MAX 9
Alaska Airlines (AS, Seattle Tacoma Int’l) became the first airline to take its maiden B737 MAX after the type’s ungrounding… Read More »
Lawyers advise Ethiopian not to settle with Boeing
Ethiopian Airlines (ET, Addis Ababa), which lost 157 passengers and crew in the second fatal crash of a B737-8 in… Read More »
Irish judge extends Norwegian’s debt restructuring
An Irish High Court judge has extended by 30 days, until February 25, the examinership process currently underway to protect… Read More »
Bahrain’s Gulf Air in talks with OEMs over order deferrals
Gulf Air (GF, Bahrain Int’l) is in talks with both Airbus and Boeing regarding the deferral of deliveries due over… Read More »
Alitalia must change brand, European Commission says
Alitalia (AZ, Rome Fiumicino) must be relaunched under another brand if the European Commission is to approve Italy’s plans to… Read More »
Canada’s West Wind, Transwest Air to merge, rebrand
West Wind Aviation (WEW, Saskatoon) and Transwest Air (4T, Prince Albert) have announced they will merge their operations under a… Read More »
Etihad warns of more job cuts
Etihad Airways (EY, Abu Dhabi Int’l) has again warned staffers of yet more job losses having already carried out several… Read More »
PIA pays $7mn in lease dispute but $2mn still in balance
PIA – Pakistan International Airlines (PK, Islamabad Quaid-e-Azam Int’l) has paid USD7 million to Irish lessor Peregrine Aviation as part… Read More »
Canada’s R1 Airlines retires only Challenger 800
R1 Airlines (TSH, Calgary) retired its only Challenger 800 (CRJ200) regional jet in September 2020, ch-aviation research has revealed. C-GEXM… Read More »
Nigeria’s Air Peace resumes inc’l ops in mid-1Q21
Air Peace (P4, Lagos) has announced the resumption of intercontinental flights – from Lagos to Sharjah in the United Arab… Read More »
Air Seychelles may be reduced to a domestic carrier – Pres.
The Seychellois president, Wavel Ramkalawan, has touted the possibility that Air Seychelles (HM, Mahé) may be reduced to a domestic… Read More »
Latvia’s airBaltic to built MRO hangar for A220s at Riga
airBaltic (BT, Riga) plans to build a new hangar at Riga to maintain its fleet of twenty-five A220-300s, the airline… Read More »
AirAsia Group plans to raise $112mn in private placement
AirAsia Group has revealed plans to raise about MYR454.51 million ringgit (USD112.4 million) by issuing up to 668,394,816 new shares… Read More »
KLM announces up to 1,000 more job cuts
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines (KL, Amsterdam Schiphol) is cutting up to 1,000 more jobs as the airline is forced to… Read More »
India’s SpiceJet to wet-lease A330, B767 for cargo ops
SpiceJet (SG, Delhi Int’l) has announced that it will wet-lease an unspecified A330 and a B767 for its growing cargo… Read More »
Get-e reveals industry-first disruption management solution
Amsterdam-based ground transportation company, Get-e, has announced the airline industry’s first intelligent disruption management solution revolutionising the way airlines resolve… Read More »
Frontier Airlines selects P&W GTF™ engines for its Airbus A320neo aircraft
Pratt & Whitney and Frontier Airlines (“Frontier”) has announced the selection of Pratt & Whitney GTF engines to power 134… Read More »
airBaltic establishes maintenance training organisation
Latvian airline airBaltic has established and received certification of its brand-new Maintenance Training Organisation that, being a part of airBaltic… Read More »
Latest COVID-19 spike quashes Japan’s domestic air travel rebound
Japan is the latest market to illustrate the new reality of the airline industry; that capacity and traffic levels move… Read More »
CAPA Live: Azul Brazilian Airlines uses a range of tools in crisis
At the CAPA Live Jan-2021 conference, Brazilian LCC Azul’s chief revenue officer Abhi Shah talked to CAPA about the outlook… Read More »
The Hiccup Effect: Australia points 2021 direction for int’l aviation
Australia’s leading health official on 18-Jan-2021 announced his belief that national border restrictions on international travel were likely to remain… Read More »
Cargo demand & supply: Qatar Airways reinforces global #1 position
Airlines have responded differently to the way that the pandemic has affected the demand for goods, to the changing nature… Read More »
easyJet and Ryanair Share The Capacity Pain While China and The United States Lead The World
Another dire week for global aviation with more lockdowns, sudden suspensions of services and the threat of having to stay… Read More »
Hong Kong’s Greater Bay Airlines applies for route licences
Greater Bay Airlines (Hong Kong Int’l) has applied to the Hong Kong Department of Transport for 104 route authorities covering… Read More »
All Boeings to be flying on SAF by 2030
On 22 January Boeing announced that all its commercial will be able to fly on and gain certification to use… Read More »