Spirit Airlines is working to add leased aircraft to fill some gaps in its Airbus orderbook during the next couple of years in order to reach annual growth targets in the mid-teens range.
Used-parts specialist APOC added its first widebody landing gear to its lease inventory—a deal the supplier says signifies its plans to expand its widebody fleet support business.
Delta projects that its domestic corporate travel business volume will be about 60% of comparable 2019 figures by September, accelerating from 20% in March.
Sharjah-based Air Arabia and the Armenian National Interests Fund (ANIF) signed an agreement July 14 to create an independent joint venture airline that will operate as an LCC.
The European Commission has laid out sweeping new sustainability legislation for aviation that includes tighter rules for its emissions trading scheme (EU-ETS), quotas for sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) and a fuel tax for intra-European flights.
There could be an opportunity for AirAsia’s Indonesian unit to improve its market position when travel restrictions ease in Indonesia, according to AirAsia Group CEO Tony Fernandes.
KLM has declared that its network to the Caribbean and South America has regained its old strength now that the carrier is serving 17 destinations this summer.
Aimed at enabling single-aisle airliners to burn carbon-free hydrogen in turbine engines, GKN Aerospace is leading a two-year Swedish-funded research project.
Universal Hydrogen will retrofit ATR 72 and de Havilland Canada Dash 8 regional turboprops operated by Icelandair, Air Nostrum and Ravn Alaska with hydrogen fuel-cell power trains.
As alternative propulsion concepts show promise to help decarbonize aviation, leaders in the commercial aviation, advanced air mobility and business aviation markets have joined forces to establish carbon credits for emissions reductions enabled by electric- and hydrogen-powered aircraft.
American Airlines is projecting total 2021 second quarter (Q2) revenue to be down 37.5% compared to 2019’s comparable period, an improvement from its previous estimate of down 40%, the company said July 13.
Latin American airports are speaking out concerning operational restrictions in some of the region’s countries, warning that the imposed constraints are limiting air traffic recovery.
Only a fraction of the investment required to make urban air mobility (UAM) an economically or socially relevant mode of transportation has been raised, and players in the market will need to take the long view if they want to see a return on their investment, cautions a report by Porsche Consulting.
In a further sign of the growing strength of the market for converted narrowbody cargo capacity, lessor BBAM Aircraft Leasing & Management has signed up for a further 12 Boeing 737-800BCF freighters.
United Airlines and its regional affiliate Mesa Airlines have conditionally agreed to order 200 19-passenger electric airliners from Heart Aerospace as they participated in the Swedish startup's $35 million Series A funding round.
Swiss International Air Lines (SWISS) has become the latest carrier to fly with sustainable aviation fuel (SAF), after teaming up with supplier Neste and setting up a logistics chain to import the fuel to Switzerland.
