Aviation Daily

By Alan Dron
Angolan regional carrier BestFly has been granted a six-month contract for inter-island flights in the Cape Verde archipelago after former operator TICV ended services.
Airlines & Lessors

By Victoria Moores
Even so, heavy restrictions remain in place and very few air links are actually operating in practice.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Graham Warwick
Volocopter has unveiled a larger, longer-range electric vertical-takeoff air taxi aimed at expanding its planned urban air mobility service out to the suburbs.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Alan Dron
Amsterdam Schiphol Airport has returned to its full complement of six runways following completion of a four-month refurbishment of the Polderbaan strip.
Airports & Networks

By Victoria Moores
The agreement lays out how aircraft design certification and production procedures will work now that the UK has exited the EU (Brexit).
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By David Casey
Breeze's network will focus on point-to-point flights from smaller secondary airports, bypassing hubs; almost 80% of its routes will have no competition.
Airlines & Lessors

By Sean Broderick
An immediately effective airworthiness directive (AD) set for publication May 18 will require operators of U.S.-registered 737 Classics to run a specific test to detect failure of a flap synchro wire.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Michael Bruno
A trove of new information is emerging on the amount of relatively easy financing available for anyone who wants to buy an airliner.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Victoria Moores
PLAY is being launched by a team of former executives from Icelandic LCC WOW Air and Icelandic wet-lease provider Air Atlanta.
Airlines & Lessors

By Helen Massy-Beresford
Ryanair may not be able to deploy any 737 MAX aircraft this summer as delivery delays persist; CEO cites Boeing "mismanage[ment]."
Airlines & Lessors

By Chen Chuanren
As part of restructuring plans, the president of Philippine Airlines (PAL) has said the carrier is in discussions with lessors to return aircraft.
Airlines & Lessors

By David Casey
Airline CEOs express confidence that the aviation industry “possesses the right tools, based on data and science, to enable a safe and meaningful restart to transatlantic travel.”
Airlines & Lessors

By Ben Goldstein
The quarterly earnings report was Frontier’s first since becoming a public company on March 31, after it held its initial public offering on the Nasdaq.
Airlines & Lessors

By Lori Ranson
Azul touts its fleet diversity as a major advantage in the company’s recovery.
Airlines & Lessors

By Victoria Moores
The five Airbus A330s will mark the company’s first long-haul aircraft.
Airlines & Lessors

By Adrian Schofield
Korean Air is continuing to achieve quarterly operating profits, mainly attributable to its surging cargo operations offsetting lost passenger revenue.
Airlines & Lessors

By Adrian Schofield
India’s GoAir is preparing to issue shares in the carrier through an initial public offering (IPO) while also seeking to rebrand itself.
Airlines & Lessors

By Aaron Karp
Starlux has indicated it plans to operate daily year-round service between Taipei and Los Angeles.
Airports & Networks

By Maxim Pyadushkin
Russia’s Aeroflot Group has finally brought all of its subsidiary airlines to its home base, Moscow Sheremetyevo International, as part of efforts to optimize its network.
Airlines & Lessors

By Kurt Hofmann
The all-business-class carrier now hopes to resume its transatlantic operations after more than a year of its scheduled services being suspended.
Airlines & Lessors

By Victoria Moores
Alitalia’s operations have been heavily affected by Italy’s COVID-19 restrictions, which the European Commission said resulted in “significant operating losses” for the airline.
Airlines & Lessors

By Chen Chuanren
The planned launch of an air travel bubble between Singapore and Hong Kong looks likely to be postponed again following new social interaction restrictions in response to emerging COVID-19 clusters.
Airports & Networks

By Graham Warwick
Funded by the UK’s Future Flight Challenge, the Air-One hub is scheduled to open in central Coventry, England, later this year.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Ben Goldstein
With the dust settling from the COVID-19 pandemic, regional carriers are on the forefront of the domestic travel recovery now underway in the U.S.
Airlines & Lessors

By Lori Ranson
The Los Angeles-based lessor is in discussions with Airbus regarding potentially exercising its options for the OEM’s smallest narrowbody, the A220.
Airlines & Lessors