Europe – Page 129
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NewsMalta puts hopes on higher load factors and profitable routes for successor carrier
Malta’s government believes an eight-strong fleet together with a right-sized network and staff levels will enable its planned successor carrier to Air Malta to be profitable.
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NewsAir France-KLM has potential avenue to becoming controlling SAS shareholder
While Air France-KLM Group would initially have a non-controlling stake in Scandinavia’s SAS, the company has indicated that the investment agreement includes a potential avenue to becoming a controlling shareholder. Air France-KLM’s emergence as a participant in the investment consortium for SAS underlines its strategy to help drive consolidation, and ...
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NewsRussia’s Aeroflot Group reaches fleet settlement with another lessor
Russian operator Aeroflot Group has disclosed a settlement with Irish lessor SMBC Aviation Capital, covering 17 aircraft. The settlement relates to foreign-built aircraft which were retained by Russian airlines in the aftermath of international sanctions imposed over the Ukrainian conflict. Aeroflot says that, under the agreement reached, the lessor has ...
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NewsSAS to leave Star for SkyTeam after picking Air France-KLM and Castlelake as investors
Scandinavian carrier SAS has identified Air France-KLM, and financial firms Castlelake and Lind Invest – along with the Danish government – as participants in the successful consortium to provide investment under the company’s equity solicitation process. SAS will eventually become a member of the SkyTeam alliance, leaving its position in ...
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NewsAzerbaijan’s Silk Way West receives first 777F
Azerbaijani cargo operator Silk Way West Airlines has taken delivery of its first Boeing 777 freighter, following an order disclosed two years ago. The Baku-based carrier signed for five 777Fs and, a year ago, supplemented the agreement with a pair of 777-8Fs, with combined deliveries running to 2030. Its first ...
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NewsUral Airlines considering flying stranded A320 out of remote field
Russian carrier Ural Airlines appears to be considering flying a stranded Airbus A320 out of the field on which it conducted an emergency landing during an attempted diversion. The aircraft had been nearing fuel exhaustion as its crew tried to divert to Novosibirsk on 12 September, following a hydraulic system ...
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NewsGKN Aerospace to complete Gripen C/D engine upgrade for Sweden
GKN Aerospace has been awarded the final instalment of a multi-year contract to develop a performance upgrade for the Saab Gripen C/D’s RM12 engine.
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NewsRyanair sees strong September traffic but delivery delays prompt winter cuts
European low-cost carrier Ryanair lifted passenger numbers 9% to 17.4 million in September with load factors unchanged at 94%.
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NewsNASA alum Deborah Diaz joins ZeroAvia’s board of directors
DIaz joins the hydrogen aviation start-up’s board as a non-executive director and will “help accelerate the company on its strategic journey from innovator to global leader and major supplier of zero-emission aircraft engines”.
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NewsPolish air force revives road-strip landing concept during ‘Route 604’ exercise
Multiple Polish air force types – including fighters and tactical transports – have taken part in the service’s first road-strip landing exercise in 20 years.
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NewsPoland’s first Saab 340 AEW aircraft unveiled in Sweden
Poland’s first of two Saab 340 airborne early warning (AEW) aircraft was unveiled for the customer at the Swedish airframer’s Linkoping site on 29 September.
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NewsPlay expects first quarterly profit but full-year loss
Icelandic budget carrier Play is expecting to post its first quarterly profit, having generated a surplus of $12 million for the peak summer months of June-August. The airline is forecasting an operating profit of $10 million and a net profit of $4 million for the third quarter, which runs to ...
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NewsRussia’s obsolete Be-12s employed in counter-USV role
Ukraine’s success with unmanned surface vehicles has led to a new role for a Cold War amphibian originally designed to hunt submarines.
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NewsUkrainian pilots arrive in USA for F-16 training
The Pentagon has confirmed that the first Ukrainian air force pilots have arrived in the USA to start F-16 flight training, beginning with English language instruction.
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Airline BusinessPegasus plots continued growth as it prepares to pass 100-aircraft milestone
Low-cost carrier Pegasus Airlines is about to take delivery of its 100th aircraft. The passing of the landmark is not only illustrative of how far it has come since launching scheduled services in 2005, but of the rapid growth seen in the Turkish market – both before and since the pandemic. Now the challenge it is to continue this expansion.
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NewsUK competition regulator re-energises inquiry into IAG and Oneworld transatlantic pact
UK competition regulators are to re-energise the long-running probe into the IAG and Oneworld transatlantic joint business arrangement, as the air transport sector continues to recover. The Competition and Markets Authority had effectively put its investigation on hold, with interim remedies in place, as the Covid-19 pandemic disrupted airline operations. ...
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NewsEASA cancels stricter fatigue regime for EFW A321 freighters after calculation error
Europe’s safety regulator has cancelled a directive tightening time limits to check Airbus A321 converted freighters for potential fatigue cracks in the centre wing-box area. The 12 September directive had emerged after stress and load calculations for A321 freighters were performed by conversion specialist EFW. These calculations had been prompted ...
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NewsSAS drops Wideroe as handling partner at several Norwegian airports
SAS is dropping regional operator Wideroe’s ground-handling arm from serving the Scandinavian carrier at several Norwegian airports. Wideroe says contracts for six of the 12 airports at which it provides ground services to SAS will be lost from February next year. But these six airports – Trondheim, Stavanger, Bodo, Haugesund, ...
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NewsWashington attempts to disrupt Iranian UAV supply chain
Sanctions announced by the US Treasury on 27 September target entities in Iran, Turkey and China that Washington says are supporting the production of Iranian UAVs, which Tehran is providing to Russia for use against Ukraine.
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NewsPortugal clears path for TAP sale with new decree
Portugal’s Council of Ministers has approved a decree to formally launch the re-privatisation of TAP Air Portugal under which it plans to sell at least a 51% stake in the national carrier.