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Airline BusinessSigns of life in Asia-Pacific but still with pain points
The Asia-Pacific region is starting to open up for air travel, but travel restrictions still impact key markets, and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine brings additional challenges
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Airline BusinessHow will increased debt change the airline industry?
As airlines emerge from Covid-19 and into cost pressures exacerbated by war in Europe, they face a years-long effort to pay down the debt accumulated to survive the challenges
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Airline BusinessWhere are the 383 Boeing 737 Max jets that had been delivered to airlines in March 2019?
Three years after the global grounding of the Boeing 737 Max fleet began and more than a year into the type’s return to service, there are more than 500 examples undertaking commercial operations around the world.
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Airline BusinessAirlines steel for rising costs as Ukraine-Russia conflict brings unwelcome uncertainties
Developments seen over the past few days – whether related to fuel costs, sanctions, airspace restrictions or airport infrastructure in Ukraine – will take some time to resolve, even under best-case scenarios.
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Airline BusinessEU sanctions against Russia will hit lessors hardest, but other aerospace players also impacted
Neither Airbus nor Boeing has significant backlog exposure to the Russian market, but the leasing industry appears harder hit by the sanctions imposed by the European Union against Moscow in the wake of its invasion of the Ukraine.
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Airline BusinessAtlanta leads US airport passenger traffic revival in 2021, but wider picture still mixed
Few metrics reflect the unevenness and ongoing challenges the pandemic has continued to present the sector more evidently than airport passenger numbers.
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Airline BusinessWhat impact will Russian invasion of Ukraine have on the airline industry?
Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine comes with the commercial aviation market already in a delicate stage of recovery.
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Airline BusinessAirlines keep cargo front of mind during Singapore Airshow
While airline fleet renewal decisions are long in planning and even longer in execution, it perhaps says much for the opportunistic climate that exists in the post-pandemic recovery phase that much of the news activity from this week’s Singapore Airshow was in the cargo sector.
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Airline BusinessWhy Europe’s joint step towards decarbonisation by 2050 now needs ICAO
Airlines for Europe (A4E) managing director Thomas Reynaert on why the landmark Toulouse Declaration on decarbonisation signed earlier in February by European governments and industry stakeholders must be followed by a commitment from ICAO at its triennial assembly this autumn.
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Airline BusinessDoes Frontier-Spirit merger herald wider airline consolidation trend?
The unique circumstances around the Frontier Airlines-Spirit Airlines merger mean it is debatable whether it has anything to say about prospects for wider consolidation in the global airline industry.
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Airline BusinessWhy has Turkish Airlines’ share price rocketed in recent months?
While the majority of global airline groups tracked by FlightGlobal have yet to see their share prices return to anything like pre-Covid levels, Turkish Airlines is a different story.
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Airline BusinessUS start-up Airbahn plans to begin revenue service in ‘May or June’
US start-up carrier Airbahn plans to launch revenue service in the second quarter as it works through the Federal Aviation Administration’s certification process.
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Airline BusinessFrontier-Spirit deal solves several issues in hotly contested ULCC market: analysts
Analysts say Frontier Airlines’ proposed acquisition of Spirit Airlines to create the largest ultra-low-cost carrier (ULCC) in the USA solves a number of potential issues in the hotly-contested low-price segment, which has been ripe for consolidation.
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Airline BusinessBubbles, lanes, and then some: How Singapore is reclaiming air hub status
After a series of false starts, Singapore’s plans to reopen its borders – and reclaim its status as a global air hub – are well well underway, though full recovery remains an elusive goal.
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Airline BusinessBoeing 737 Max programme enjoys better news after order setbacks
Boeing’s 737 Max programme has enjoyed a much-needed period of positive news following an inauspicious end to 2021 that saw Air France-KLM and Qantas place significant narrowbody orders with Airbus.
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Airline BusinessSingapore Airlines picks up the pace in a world transformed
Singapore Airlines remains a national icon with strong government support and a disciplined management team, but the post-pandemic world promises new challenges.
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Airline BusinessAirbus tension, Air Italy and Covid: how Qatar Airways’ first 737 Max order hit the buffers
Qatar Airways’ signing of a letter of intent for up to 50 Boeing 737 Max 10 jets on 31 January does not mark the first time the Middle Eastern carrier has looked to Seattle for narrowbodies amid tensions with Airbus.
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Airline BusinessDeepening row signals shift in balance of power between Airbus and Qatar Airways
Cancellation of order for A321neos on top of ongoing litigation over A350 skin-paint issues is latest twist in highly public row as relations between the two parties continue to deteriorate.
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Airline BusinessDiversity and sustainability action can help airlines ‘build back better’
As the recovery momentum builds, so does scrutiny over whether the airline industry is truly committed to ‘building back better’ – a refrain popular with more than one chief executive during the darkest days of the crisis.
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Airline BusinessHow Max Kownatzki led SunExpress back to profit and on to 737 Max-driven growth
Despite having had little time to settle at SunExpress before Covid-19 arrived, Max Kownatzki has ensured the Turkish leisure carrier is raring to go as the crisis abates