A London court said July 20 it will schedule proceedings Nov. 19 to hear a case between Austria-based LaudaMotion and Germany’s Lufthansa over aircraft leasing contracts.
The Lufthansa Group will integrate sales activities in Africa for all its airlines and establish a new sub-Saharan sales headquarters in Brussels at Brussels Airlines.
Irish LCC Ryanair has signed a recognition agreement with the Italian union FIT CISL, which will now join ANPAC and ANPAV as a joint negotiating body for directly employed cabin crew in Italy.
Atlanta-based Delta Air Lines and Calgary-based WestJet have signed a definitive agreement to form an antitrust-immunized transborder joint venture (JV), finalizing the details of a proposed partnership announced in late 2017 via the signing of an MOU.
For those that accept the premise that air shows can be won and lost, order tallies are a big deal. Clearly, many in the media are all-in on the idea of winning a trade show, passing along order totals as if they held the same short-term relevance as a golf reporter's major-tournament leaderboard updates.
The European Union (EU) and Latin American states have launched a new four-year, €7 million ($8.2 million), EU-funded project to enhance their ties in civil aviation, the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) said.
Air France-KLM and China Eastern Airlines have broadened their cooperation and extended their joint venture (JV) with new destinations on the passenger side and China Eastern selecting Air France-KLM’s MRO arm for the component support of its Boeing 787 fleet.
The world’s commercial aircraft duopoly once again scored big at an otherwise lackluster Farnborough Air Show with Airbus and Boeing announcing firm net orders and commitments for more than 960 aircraft, valued at $160 billion at list prices.
Airbus has unveiled AirSense, an analytics platform offering that fuses ground-, space- and aircraft-based data for precise aircraft tracking and flight route optimization applications.
Henrik Hololei, the European Commission’s DG for mobility and transport—known as MOVE—has warned against a reverse “to a purely nationalist agenda,” and cautioned that Western nations risk undermining their leadership role in global aviation.
For 20 years, the Q400 aircraft has helped develop new markets, connect underserved cities, and make safe, reliable air-travel possible even in the world's most remote locations
Airbus gained a commitment for 10 additional A320neos at Farnborough July 19, as an unidentified customer signed an MOU agreeing to the purchase, valued at approximately $1.1 billion.
Dubai-based lessor Novus Aviation Capital made its first direct purchase agreement with US manufacturer Boeing at the Farnborough Air Show July 19, committing to buy up to four 777-300ERs valued at about $1.4 billion at list prices.
Airbus’s first BelugaXL has completed its first flight, paving the way for a 10-month long flight test certification campaign and a planned entry into service next year.
Portuguese wet-lease specialist Hi Fly has received “hundreds of requests” for its first Airbus A380 and plans to announce the first customer for the wet-lease aircraft “in the next few days,” according to CEO Paulo Mirpuri.
European leisure specialist TUI Group is considering swapping some of its later Boeing 737 MAX 8 deliveries to the larger MAX 10 and, separately, is performing a series of Wi-Fi evaluations.
Newly rebranded Air Italy will not attempt to copy Qatar Airways’ style, despite the Arab carrier having taken a 49% stake in the company, the Italian carrier’s chief customer experience (CCE) officer said July 18.
