Airlines & Lessors

Mar 25, 2016
Indianapolis-based Republic Airways Holdings, the parent company of regional carriers Republic Airlines and Shuttle America, has reached an agreement with Delta Air Lines to “holistically restructure the parties’ codeshare relationship.”
Mar 25, 2016
El Al Israel Airlines posted a $106.5 million net profit for 2015, reversing a 2014 net loss of $28 million as passenger numbers increased 7.6% over the year.
Mar 24, 2016
For a very short period of time, billionaire Donald Trump—the Republican front-runner in the race to the White House—also tried to become an airline entrepreneur.
Mar 24, 2016
German investor Intro Aviation—which acquired Irish regional CityJet and its Belgium-based subsidiary VLM in April 2014—has sold CityJet following a successful turnaround program to CityJet founder Pat Byrne and a consortium of private investors.
Mar 24, 2016
Virgin Atlantic Group posted £22.5 million ($33.4 million) in pre-tax profit for 2015, up 81.5% from its £12.4 million pre-tax profit in 2014.
Oct 01, 2020
Abu Dhabi-based Etihad Airways will include a diagnostic test to detect COVID-19 infections with all of its tickets.
Oct 01, 2020
Oct. 1 marked a solemn day for the U.S. airline industry. 
Oct 01, 2020
AirAsia Japan’s shareholders are reportedly preparing to shut down the carrier, as the AirAsia Group focuses its attention on its Southeast Asian operations.
Oct 01, 2020
Starved for heavy checks, many independent MROs are looking forward to lease-transition work. But most lease transitions in the COVID-19 world—and…
Sep 30, 2020
Airlines will have to use some of the money they receive from governments to get them through the COVID-19 crisis to continue to pursue environmental initiatives, JetBlue Airways’ CEO said Sept. 30.
Sep 30, 2020
Delta Air Lines announced tentative plans to introduce the Airbus A220-300 into scheduled service beginning in November, setting it up to become the first airline in the U.S. to operate the stretched variant of the smaller A220-100.
Sep 30, 2020
Air Transport Action Group (ATAG) has released a report, detailing specific actions to hit industry sustainability targets by 2050, but the analysis also predicts that COVID-19 will have a 16% impact on traffic 30 years from now.
Sep 30, 2020
American Airlines will offer passengers pre-departure COVID-19 tests on select routes to Hawaii, Jamaica and the Caribbean beginning in October, as carriers look to passenger testing as a means to stimulate demand amid the ongoing pandemic.