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NewsFinnair unveils ‘lounge seat’ business cabin and new premium-economy product
Finnair has unveiled new business-class and premium-economy cabins to be rolled out on the carrier’s Airbus A350 and A330 long-haul fleets. The airline says it is investing €200 million in the revamp which commences this month and will continue for the next two years. Finnair will also take the opportunity ...
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Canada’s Air Inuit receives first large-door Dash 8-300 freighter
Canadian operator Air Inuit has introduced the first Bombardier Dash 8-300 to be fitted with a large cargo door, six years after being identified as the launch customer for the modification. The aircraft (C-GAIW) is a 1991 airframe, originally a passenger aircraft whose operators have included Sabena and LIAT. Air ...
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Canada’s Swoop to take six new Boeing 737 Max 8 this year
WestJet’s ultra-low-cost subsidiary Swoop will add six Boeing 737 Max 8 aircraft to its fleet as the discount segment in Canada heats up with two new competitors due to launch in the coming months.
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Air Arabia’s new Pakistani carrier to emerge around mid-year: chief
Air Arabia Group chief Adel Ali expects operations with its new Pakistani joint-venture carrier to commence around mid-year. The new carrier, Fly Jinnah, is being established with conglomerate Lakson Group and will be based in Karachi. Speaking during an event in London on 8 February, Ali said the airline would ...
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TUI expects summer 2022 demand to be near pre-Covid levels
European leisure group TUI expects its summer 2022 demand to be close to pre-crisis levels as the Covid-19 recovery gathers momentum in key markets.
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Dubai’s Aerovista to introduce converted A321 freighters
Middle Eastern lessor Aerovista is committing to four Airbus A321 converted freighters through a partnership with US finance firm Petrus Aviation. The A321s will undergo modification by specialist 321 Precision Conversions. Dubai-based Aerovista, which focuses its services on A320-family jets, identifies the initial two aircraft as MSN1451 and MSN1503. Both ...
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Frontier pitches Spirit acquisition as countering USA’s four mega airlines
Frontier Airlines expects its planned acquisition of Spirit Airlines will generate hundreds of millions of dollars in efficiencies and give the combined carrier the scale needed to better compete against the USA’s four mega airlines.
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Airline Business Covid-19 recovery tracker: February 2022 update
Our regular examination of the latest global data for several key airline market indicators, including traffic and capacity in passenger and cargo markets, in-service and stored fleets, jet fuel costs, and share price trends for the world’s largest groups.
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Wet-lease operator SmartLynx to start introducing 737 Max jets
Wet-lease specialist SmartLynx Airlines is to expand its fleet with Boeing 737 Max jets, having agreed to take a pair from lessor SMBC Aviation Capital. The aircraft are both Max 8 variants, powered by CFM International Leap-1B engines. SmartLynx says deliveries of the aircraft are “underway” and that they will ...
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Komiaviatrans aims to expand network after avoiding bankruptcy
Russian regional carrier Komiaviatrans is aiming for expansion after an injection of aid from the local government allowed it to avoid collapsing into bankruptcy. The Komi republic’s ministry of economic development states that the airline had recorded debts of Rb4.2 billion ($55 million) in October last year. Government representatives approved ...
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IndiGo swings to net profit in final quarter of 2021 but Omicron hits new-year demand
Indian low-cost carrier IndiGo swung to a net profit in the three months to 31 December 2021, ending a series of loss-making quarters as the Covid-19 recovery gathers pace.
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Icelandair embarks on detailed planning to replace remaining 757 fleet
Icelandair Group will look to replace its Boeing 757 fleet from the second half of the decade, following a review of its long-term strategy. Chief executive Bogi Nils Bogason, speaking during the company’s full-year results briefing, stated that the current fleet composition is “very well suited” to its route network ...
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American Airlines reshuffles Boeing aircraft orders
American Airlines will be taking more Boeing 737 Max and delaying the delivery of some 787 Dreamliners, the company says in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission on 2 February.
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Ethiopian resumes Boeing 737 Max flights
Ethiopian Airlines has today brought its Boeing 737 Max back into service, almost three years after a fatal crash of one of its aircraft prompted the global grounding of the type.
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Icelandair reveals new livery on Boeing 737 Max
Icelandair has revealed a new livery on three of its six Boeing 737 Max 8 aircraft as part of its first rebrand since 2006.
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Baghdad missile attack damages retired Iraqi Airways A300
Iraqi Airways states that a missile attack on Baghdad airport has damaged an out-of-service aircraft, but that the carrier is continuing to operate services. The attack took place at dawn on 28 January, the airline says. It has released photographs of a parked aircraft, the nose-gear doors of which identify ...
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Norwegian to operate 54 routes out of reopened Stockholm base this summer
Restructured low-cost carrier Norwegian is to set to operate 54 routes from Stockholm Arlanda after it reopens it base at the Swedish airport this summer for the first time since the pandemic.
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ITA to acquire A350s from Kuwaiti lessor
Kuwaiti lessor ALAFCO has disclosed that it will supply several Airbus A350 twinjets to the new Italian carrier ITA Airways. ITA has signed a lease deal for four A350-900s, which will be delivered in the second and third quarters of this year. ALAFCO says the list price for the aircraft ...
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JAL to take A321P2Fs in domestic cargo joint venture with Yamato
Japan Airlines has signed a partnership agreement with Japanese logistics company Yamato Holdings to operate domestic cargo flights with Airbus A321 converted freighters from 2024.
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Airbus nixing of Qatar order ‘worrying’ amid need for airframer competition: IATA chief
The director general of IATA has described Airbus’s cancellation of a Qatar Airways A321neo order as a “worrying development”, as he highlighted the airline industry’s desire for “healthy competition” between the two big airframers.
