All Analysis – Page 39
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AnalysisEmbraer-Boeing tie up tenuous on merger deadline date
The planned merger of Embraer’s commercial aircraft business with Boeing is hanging by a thread as the coronavirus crisis brings into sharp relief some of the problems with a transaction that seemed like a foregone conclusion just a few months ago.
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AnalysisHow would SAA collapse affect South Africa’s airline connectivity?
If South African Airways fails to find a way through its current funding crisis, it could leave a big hole in its home country’s connectivity, depending on which routes are considered viable as coronavirus restrictions are lifted.
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AnalysisThe lessors with the most exposure to Virgin Australia
Singapore-based Avation is the lessor with the highest exposure, by number of aircraft, to Virgin Australia, which has entered voluntary administration. Goshawk, meanwhile, has the most lease rentals to lose if the airline cannot make payments. Avation has 13 aircraft with the Brisbane-based carrier, including 11 ATR 72s on operating ...
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AnalysisAir freight market goes into overdrive
While passenger airlines have heavily reduced their services over recent weeks, the air cargo market has gone into overdrive as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.
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AnalysisAPAC airlines, airports weigh up post-Covid-19 measures
Airlines and airports in Asia-Pacific are looking ahead to how travel behaviour may need to change and the necessary measures to reassure the travelling public as they cautiously prepare to restart operations after the Covid-19 crisis. The spread of Covid-19 has wiped out air travel, leaving skies empty and airports ...
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AnalysisEarly retirements in crises: a new normal?
Across the world, airlines are considering bringing forward the retirement of older aircraft types. When the coronavirus outbreak finally abates, the question will remain if these accelerated retirements represent an anomaly, or a “new normal”.
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AnalysisIATA appeals to Latin American governments for coordination
Airline industry association IATA is calling on Latin American governments to harmonise plans to eventually restart air service and reopen borders, saying an uncoordinated effort will hinder the sector’s recovery.
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AnalysisUS carriers tap relief funding as crisis deepens
North American airline traffic is expected be down more than a third compared with the 2019 level, IATA’s projections for the impact of the coronavirus crisis on the sector show.
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AnalysisEtihad and Emirates prepare ground for service return
Etihad’s announcement that it aims to begin restoring its passenger network from the start of May and Emirates’ initial move to test passengers for coronavirus ahead of flights show the Gulf carriers readying for a return to operations.
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AnalysisEuropean carriers face long haul through coronavirus crisis
If the relative financial success of the European airline industry had always seemed paradoxical given the glut of carrier failures over the past three winters, the coronavirus outbreak has to some extent been a leveller.
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AnalysisA380 and 747 hardest hit as stored fleet soars past 14,000 airliners
Latest storage data from Cirium reveals that just 2% of the A380s and less than 10% of Boeing 747s are currently flying
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AnalysisHow Covid-19 is changing aviation in Asia-Pacific
Covid-19 has sent airlines and airports worldwide reeling and predicting the future is impossible. One thing is certain, some airlines in Asia-Pacific will fail, as the region had concerns about overcapacity and a glut of plane orders before the crisis. “Before coronavirus, the APAC region was very busy and there ...
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AnalysisIndustry downturn raises new doubts about Boeing’s NMA: analysts
The aerospace industry downturn and Boeing’s financial position has raised fresh questions about its likelihood of developing the long-stalled New Mid-market Airplane (NMA), says two aerospace analysts
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AnalysisMixed fortunes globally as active fleet drops towards 7,000 aircraft
More than 12,500 Airbus and Boeing airliners have entered storage since January
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AnalysisCoronavirus crisis threatens to push South African carriers over the edge
While the coronavirus pandemic has had a wide-ranging impact across African carriers, the timing of the crisis has been particularly calamitous for South Africa’s struggling airline sector.
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AnalysisIndustry orders and deliveries plummet as Boeing takes pain
Airbus has solid first quarter but Boeing suffers dramatic decline as cancellations hit
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AnalysisCoronavirus slashes Asia-Pacific deliveries in March
Carriers in the Asia-Pacific received 14 of the 49 new airliners delivered in March 2020, as airframers and countries continued to grapple with the coronavirus pandemic. The region trailed North America, where carriers took 17 new aircraft, but led Europe, which saw just 13 deliveries. Source: Cirium ...
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AnalysisTop 10 aerospace mergers that never were
From Textron-Bombardier to Lockheed-Northrop and EADS-BAE, we review industrial giants that might have been, had proposed or mooted unions over the past quarter century gone ahead.
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AnalysisGlobal airliner fleet returns to 1990s levels
As airlines worldwide ground their aircraft in the wake of a collapse in passenger demand, the industry has passed a key cross-over point with the number of stored jets now exceeding that of the active fleet.
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AnalysisEnd looms for passenger A310s as Air Transat retires fleet
Operational airline fleet decline to single digits as Canadian airline calls time