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NewsDelta to retire aircraft and take up to $2.5b charge
Delta Air Lines will retire more aircraft earlier than planned in an effort to streamline its fleet and cut costs as the air travel industry recovers from the shock of the coronavirus pandemic.
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Analysis
Lessors test the market with portfolio sales
Lessors typically trade an average of 550 single-aisle and 95 twin-aisle aircraft a year, based on Cirium data for the past five years, far greater than the 150 single-aisle and 16 twin-aisle aircraft from 1 January to 22 September.
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Opinion
For airlines, a focus on 'getting back to 2019 ' ignores reality
As with many coronavirus crisis-related discussions – involving airlines or otherwise – it is tempting to focus on getting back to how things were, even at the cost of considering that some changes might be for the better.
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Interview
Tim Clark reflects on Emirates’ incredible journey
As he nears his departure after more than three decades at the heart of Emirates Airline, Tim Clark tells FlightGlobal how the Middle Eastern operator went from minnow to global player
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Interview
Tim Clark in conversation on the rise and rise of Emirates
As Emirates Airline president and founding father Tim Clark prepares to step aside, he reflects in this FlightGlobal video interview on more than three decades at the sharp end of Dubai’s flag carrier.
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News
CDB Aviation agrees Max and Dreamliner SLBs with United Airlines
CDB Aviation has agreed to purchase and lease back 12 new aircraft from US carrier United Airlines . The transaction comprises two Boeing 787-9s and 10 737 Max 8s, a 22 September filing to the Hong Kong stock exchange shows. Source: United Airlines CDB Aviation’s ...
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Interview
RwandAir chief Makolo on recovery, Qatar and pan-African aims
The Covid crisis may have created numerous immediate challenges, but RwandAir chief Yvonne Makolo says the carrier has many reasons for optimism about its long-term future
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News
AerSale buys 24 757-200s for freighter conversions and part-out
Aircraft trader and support specialist AerSale has acquired 24 Boeing 757-200 passenger jets that were stored at its facilities in Arizona and New Mexico.
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Opinion
Why crisis means 2020 is the year of freighters and preighters
Chris Seymour, head of market analysis at Ascend by Cirium, looks at how the cargo market has coped during the pandemic
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News
Ryanair could order more Max jets by year-end: Davy
Ryanair may “take advantage of market softness” and add to its Boeing 737 Max orderbook by the end of the year, Davy Research has predicted in a new report.
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In depth
How Soviets decided four was the magic number
Call it an air transport anachronism, but just as four-engined airliners are slipping, perhaps prematurely, into the realms of nostalgia, Russian airframer VASO is assembling a new widebody quadjet, the Ilyushin Il-96-400M, at its facility in Voronezh.
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In depth
Five decades of widebody deliveries and development
Since Boeing handed the first 747-100 (N733PA) to Pan Am at its Everett plant near Seattle on 12 December 1969, the world’s manufacturers have delivered almost 9,700 more widebodies to airlines, governments, air forces – and even some wealthy individuals.
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Analysis
Wild weekend offers, domestic tourism power China airline recovery
As countries around the world start to tap on domestic travel as a means of reviving economies battered by the coronavirus pandemic, one major economy has gone full steam ahead with its domestic recovery. In recent months, Chinese carriers have doubled down on domestic air travel efforts, touting discount ...
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News
Troubled Nok to improve fleet efficiency, seek alternative revenue sources
Thai low-cost carrier Nok Air, which recently filed for business rehabilitation, will improve fleet efficiency, seek alternative revenue streams, and adjust its marketing efforts - all in a bid to reduce costs. The latest move comes as the troubled carrier’s securities were given the ‘caution’ sign by the Thai ...
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Analysis
Mainline deliveries could exceed 700 in 2020 and rise next year
With a little over three months left of 2020, it is remains far from clear what the industry’s mainline jet delivery total will be for the year, amid uncertainty over the pace of the recovery and the availability of finance. Adding to the confusing picture is the likely timing of the Boeing 737 Max’s return and, if it does get a green light in 2020, how many aircraft will be handed over.
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News
Taiwan’s Starlux orders eight A330neos
Starlux Airlines is set to become Taiwan’s first Airbus A330neo operator, after the carrier ordered eight examples of the widebody. Airbus, announcing the order on its social media channels, states that the eight widebodies will be leased from Air Lease Corporation. Source: Airbus Starlux Airlines ...
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News
RwandAir no longer taking A330neo or 737 Max jets
RwandAir is no longer taking the Airbus A330neo and Boeing 737 Max jets it had ordered via lessors.
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News
Air NZ extends 777 grounding to September 2021, or beyond
Air New Zealand will ground its Boeing 777 fleet for nearly one more year, as it notes that recovery from the coronavirus pandemic will be “slower than initially thought.” Instead of resuming 777 operations at the end of the year, the carrier says it will store the aircraft “until ...
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Analysis
Winter of disconnect ahead for Europe’s airlines
There are few crumbs of comfort for European airlines as they look back on a worse-than-expected summer season and forward to what could be a bleak winter.
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News
Proposed A380neo would have offered double-digit fuel reduction: Clark
Emirates Airline president Tim Clark laments Airbus’s decision to abandon the “A380neo”, believing that the proposed re-egngining would have created an “absolutely brilliant” aircraft offering a double-digit fuel-burn reduction.
