Airlines & Lessors
May 08, 2018
Global air passenger traffic in March grew at its fastest monthly pace in a year—up 9.5% year-over-year—driven by a generally strong global economic backdrop, according to IATA’s latest Air Passenger Market Analysis.
May 08, 2018
Lufthansa plans to focus its future growth on its hub in Munich, Zurich and Vienna while pulling capacity off Frankfurt for now, CEO Carsten Spohr told the annual shareholder meeting on May 8.
May 08, 2018
Lufthansa Group’s supervisory board approved orders for up to 16 additional aircraft to be allocated among subsidiaries.
May 07, 2018
Aeromexico's capacity adjustments to offset weakness in its home market appear to be paying off, as the carrier boosted domestic revenue passenger kilometers (RPKs) and load factor in April, even as it continued to trim capacity.
May 07, 2018
Ethiopian Airlines has placed a follow-on order for 10 Bombardier Q400s, plus purchase rights for five additional Q400 turboprops.
Apr 06, 2022
JetBlue Airways believes its proposed acquisition of, and merger with, Spirit Airlines will allow the combined entity to create a compelling order book during the next few years in an increasingly tight narrowbody market.
Apr 06, 2022
Kenya Airways and SAA plan to leverage their respective Nairobi and Johannesburg home hubs, with ambitions of co-starting a pan-African airline group by 2023.
Apr 06, 2022
UK long-haul carrier Virgin Atlantic is expecting to significantly narrow its losses in 2022 and return to profitability in 2023, after posting a £594 million ($778.7 million) pre-tax loss for 2021.
Apr 06, 2022
In conversation with Aviation Daily, Iceland’s newest start-up airlines Niceair and PLAY detail their latest activities and plans to reach profitability in 2023.
Apr 06, 2022
Airlines are expecting travel demand to keep growing despite the effects of higher jet fuel costs feeding through into ticket price increases, IATA said.
Apr 06, 2022
Malaysian LCC AirAsia X has revealed the next stage of its network restoration, which will also help the airline return more of its fleet to service.
Apr 05, 2022
JetBlue's offer complicates plans by Frontier Airlines to merge with Spirit before the end of 2022.
Apr 05, 2022
The airline said it had to cancel 2,000 flights in March because of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and related airspace closures.