All Air Transport articles – Page 202
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NewsChina Airlines yet to finalise 787 order: Boeing
Boeing has not yet received firm 787 orders from China Airlines despite the carrier saying yesterday it had purchased the jets.
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NewsVirgin Atlantic broadens Indian reach with IndiGo codeshare
UK long-haul operator Virgin Atlantic is to extend its Indian reach through a codeshare agreement with budget airline IndiGo. The new partnership will enable onward travel from Virgin’s flights from London Heathrow to Delhi and Mumbai. It will initially cover seven cities in India, comprising Chennai, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Ahmedabad, ...
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NewsRevised LATAM forecast predicts return to pre-crisis revenues next year
Latin American operator LATAM Airlines Group is expecting to exceed pre-crisis revenues next year, and has hiked annual cost-saving estimates to more than $1 billion, in a revised business outlook as it prepares to exit US Chapter 11 protection. Its new five-year forecast sees the operator’s revenues reaching nearly $11.5 ...
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NewsAirbus starts seeking successor to chief financial officer Asam
Airbus is preparing a succession plan for chief financial officer Dominik Asam, who is to step down from his position next year. He is to take up the post of chief financial officer at German software firm SAP. Asam joined Airbus during a management transition following Guillaume Faury’s accession to ...
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NewsSiberia’s Aeroservis to take LMS-901s for passenger transport
South Siberian operator Aeroservis has become the latest to sign for the new UZGA LMS-901 Baikal utility aircraft, with an agreement for seven. Aeroservis will take delivery of the single-engined transports over the course of 2025-28. The Chita-based company conducts a range of operations, including passenger transport to several regional ...
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NewsMammoth agrees 777 freighter conversion pact with Fort Worth’s Aspire MRO
US-based Mammoth Freighters has reached a Boeing 777 freighter-conversion agreement with Texas’s Aspire MRO. The agreement follows Aspire’s formal launch of passenger-to-freighter conversion services at its Fort Worth facility in the city’s Alliance airport. Aspire will use six bays at the airport’s former American Airlines maintenance centre for 777 conversion. ...
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NewsTajikistan's Somon to lease additional 737-800s
Tajikistan’s Somon Air has introduced one of a pair of Boeing 737-800s which the carrier has agreed to lease from US-based Aviation Capital Group. The agreement will increase the airline’s fleet to six jets, comprising four 737-800s and two -900s. Somon Air says the first aircraft under the lease deal ...
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NewsFinnair to put A330 capacity on three Nordic links to Qatar
Finnair is to deploy substantial Airbus A330 capacity on new services to the Qatari capital Doha, operating not only from Helsinki but Stockholm and Copenhagen. The twinjets will be used as part of a long-term strategic co-operation agreement between Finnair and its Oneworld alliance partner Qatar Airways. Finnair has been ...
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NewsSpain’s Air Europa commits to 737 Max and more 787s
Spanish carrier Air Europa is to take 15 long- and short-haul aircraft under a lease agreement with Irish-based AerCap. Air Europa is to bring in five Boeing 787-9s and 10 737 Max 8s under the pact. It will take delivery of the jets over the course of 2024-26. Air Europa ...
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NewsUPS orders another eight 767 Freighters
US express-cargo airline UPS has ordered another eight Boeing 767-300 Freighters, throwing more momentum behind Boeing’s already strong cargo-aircraft programmes.
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NewsCanada Jetlines delays launch to 22 September
Canadian discount start-up Canada Jetlines has again pushed back its planned start of passenger flights, this time by about three weeks, until 22 September.
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NewsPW127XT-M powerplant wins Transport Canada approval
Pratt & Whitney Canada has gained Transport Canada certification for the latest XT-M variant of its PW127 engine, bringing closer the first delivery aboard an ATR twin-turboprop.
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NewsWrong head-up display mode cited after CRJ700 strayed over parallel runway in fog
French investigators suspect a head-up guidance mode discrepancy following an incident in which a Hop Bombardier CRJ700 deviated from flightpath, and overflew Lyon airport at low level, while conducting a Category IIIa landing. The aircraft had descended from 3,000ft towards runway 35R, in darkness and freezing fog on 23 January ...
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NewsSAS partly blames pilot strike as third-quarter loss nears SKr2bn
Scandinavian operator SAS has turned in a near-SKr2 billion ($187 million) pre-tax loss for the third quarter, covering the initial summer period, partly attributed to a two-week pilot strike. Pre-tax losses for the nine months to 31 July totalled more than SKr6.1 billion for the company, which has been under ...
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NewsWizz Air sets up new committee to assist with safety compliance oversight
Budget carrier Wizz Air is setting up a new internal committee intended to support oversight of practices and performance relating to safety and security. The airline says the new safety, security and operational compliance committee will be chaired by Charlotte Pedersen. Pedersen, a non-executive director who has been on the ...
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NewsLufthansa facing strike action by pilots as negotiations stall
German flag-carrier Lufthansa is facing the prospect of strike action by pilots, after failing to reach a collective agreement with union Vereinigung Cockpit. The union says it was recently engaged in four days of discussions about a framework under which to continue negotiations. But these ended without agreement and the ...
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NewsCrew of fuel-leak A330 did not shut down engine before suboptimal diversion
French investigators have found that an Air France Airbus A330-200 crew did not follow standard procedures for a fuel leak, choosing not to shut down the affected engine before diverting to an airport with a shortened runway and suboptimal weather conditions. The aircraft had departed Brazzaville for Paris Charles de ...
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Airline BusinessAirline Business Index surges towards 2019 baseline as travel demand returns
The latest Airline Business Index shows the global airline industry’s progress towards its pre-Covid size accelerated rapidly during the second quarter of 2022, as revenues in particular surged alongside passenger numbers.
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NewsImpairment reversal from 737 Max order pushes Norwegian into second-quarter profit
Scandinavian budget carrier Norwegian benefited from the partial reversal of an impairment loss in the second quarter, enabling it to turn in an operating profit of NKr1.36 billion ($141 million) for the period. Norwegian generated NKr4.87 billion in revenues for the three months to 30 June, but the rise in ...
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NewsEx-Nokia executive takes top financial post at Finnair
Finnair has named former Nokia finance head Kristian Pullola as its new chief financial officer, succeeding Mike Stirkkinen. Pullola worked at Nokia for some 21 years and became chief financial officer of the mobile communications firm in early 2017, leaving the company in August 2020. He will join Finnair on ...