All Airlines articles – Page 205
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NewsNorthern Pacific Airways to wet-lease aircraft when it launches
Start-up US carrier Northern Pacific Airways, which intends to begin flights later this year, has applied with US authorities to fly between the USA and two Asian countries, initially using jets wet-leased from another carrier.
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NewsAirline unions favour Spirit-Frontier tie-up
Unions representing US airline workers are voicing support for a Frontier Airlines-Spirit Airlines tie-up, while expressing opposition to JetBlue Airways’ competing hostile offer for the ultra-low-cost carrier.
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Airline BusinessEspen Hoiby back rebuilding crew resource firm but with eye on electric future
OSM Aviation built a pioneering crew resourcing model only for the pandemic to decimate the airline sector. Now rebranded as AAP, its founder is back at the helm and plotting not just a swift rebuidling of the business, but an opportunity for further disruption to traditional models with the arrival of electric aircraft
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NewsSIA Group cuts full-year loss as border re-opening proves ‘game-changer’
Singapore Airlines Group significantly narrowed its full-year losses, as revenues double on the back of borders reopening.
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NewsCMA CGM set to take stake in Air France-KLM under long-term cargo partnership
French logistics firm CMA CGM is to take up to a 9% stake in Air France-KLM as part of new long-term partnership under which they will work together operating their respective air cargo capacity.
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NewsThai carriers boost Q1 capacity but big operating losses persist
Thai Airways International, Bangkok Airways, and Thai AirAsia parent Asia Aviation all posted operating losses in the first quarter, even though Covid-19 travel restrictions have started to fall away.
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NewsATR powers ahead with hybrid-electric Evo
Manufacturer kicks off feasibility studies for new hybrid-electric turboprop variant to deliver 20% fuel-burn saving, with new model to arrive before the end of the decade.
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NewsChina Southern latest Chinese carrier to cut 737 Max from fleet outlook
China Southern Airlines has excluded the Boeing 737 Max aircraft from its near-term fleet forecasts, the latest in a string of Chinese carriers to do so, amid uncertainty over the type’s return to service in one of Boeing’s key markets.
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NewsMalaysia Airlines, Qatar Airways beef up partnership with codeshare expansion
Malaysia Airlines and Qatar Airways have expanded their codesharing agreement, as the two carriers deepen their long-term partnership.
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NewsFull border reopening dramatically lifts SIA Group’s April traffic
Singapore Airlines and its low-cost unit Scoot have seen a significant uptick in passenger numbers in April, on the back of a complete easing of travel curbs in Singapore and several parts of the world.
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NewsUnited executive does not foresee changes to USA’s pilot-qualification rule
Comments made by a top US airline executive suggest efforts to ease flight-hour rules for new pilots might lack support from at least one major US carrier.
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NewsWizz Air to establish Maltese unit
Central European budget carrier Wizz AIr plans to establish a Maltese airline unit later this year.
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NewsAerCap takes $2.7bn charge over aircraft and engines leased to Russia
Lessor AerCap has taken a pre-tax charge of $2.7 billion in write-offs and other impairments relating to the inability to retrieve 113 aircraft leased to Russian carriers. AerCap says it has recognised a “total loss” on assets that remain in Russia and Ukraine, and taken impairments on the assets it ...
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NewsEngine static ports left covered on transpacific Qantas 787
Qantas and Boeing are revising aircraft maintenance procedures after one of the carrier’s 787-9s flew from Melbourne to Los Angeles without having the covers of its engine static ports removed. All four ports – two on each of the General Electric GEnx engines’ fan cowls – had been taped over, ...
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NewsIndustry leaders call for unified efforts to sustain Asian aviation recovery
Panellists at an aviation roundtable have called for unified efforts to speed up – and sustain – recovery in the sector which has been battered by two years of the coronavirus pandemic.
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News‘Grim’ April plunges Chinese ‘Big Three’ domestic traffic to record low
China’s ongoing battle with a resurgent wave of coronavirus infections has sent domestic traffic into free fall, with the country’s three largest carriers reporting a second consecutive month of traffic decline in April.
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NewsSingapore to resume Changi airport Terminal 5 project
Singapore is to restart work on the mega Terminal 5 project - with construction expected to commence within the next three years - amid optimism over projected air traffic recovery.
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NewsSpirit will review JetBlue’s new offer, advises shareholders to sit tight
Spirit Airlines says it will review a new hostile takeover offer from JetBlue Airways but advised shareholders to take no action at this time.
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NewsSMBC acquiring Goshawk to create lessor with over 700 aircraft
Japanese-owned SMBC Aviation Capital is to acquire fellow Irish-based lessor Goshawk Aviation under a transaction valued at $6.7 billion. It will create the second-largest lessor worldwide in terms of aircraft numbers, and the largest to be owned by Japanese interests. SMBC will take over Goshawk following an agreement with NWS ...
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NewsGol CEO Kakinoff to step down, Ferrer to take helm
Longtime Gol chief executive Paolo Kakinoff will step down from his post in July, with current chief operating officer Celso Ferrer to succeed him as CEO.