All articles by Lewis Harper – Page 13
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Eurocontrol says pent-up demand ‘vivid’ but full traffic recovery still set for 2025
Eurocontrol has revised slightly upwards its forecast for flight movements in Europe in 2023 and 2024 but continues to predict that 2019 levels will only be reached in 2025.
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Airline Business
Airline Business performance tracker: Asia-Pacific Q4 2022
Key data from the most-recent Asia-Pacific earnings period – the fourth quarter of 2022 – and the equivalent periods stretching back to the last pre-Covid year, powered by Airline Business Insight
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First ITA Airways A330neo emerges from Airbus assembly line
ITA Airways’ first Airbus A330-900 emerged from the hangar at the airframer’s final assembly line in Toulouse on 31 March.
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Commercial chief to become new Lufthansa Cargo boss
Lufthansa Cargo’s chief commercial officer will be promoted to chief executive following the departure of Dorothea von Boxberg to Brussels Airlines.
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Rolls-Royce overhauls executive team as transformation ramps up
Rolls-Royce has announced several changes to its executive team following the launch in February of a business transformation effort by new chief executive Tufan Erginbilgic.
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Airline Business
Why Lufthansa chief likens Europe’s airlines to German cars, Swiss watches and French handbags
The Airlines for Europe (A4E) Aviation Summit on 29 March saw the chief executives of Europe’s biggest airlines make familiar pleas to the European Commission for action on topics such as sustainable aviation fuel, EU261 and air traffic management.
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ChatGPT already offering ‘immediate-term business benefits’ for airlines
The leaders of Air Baltic and Finnair have joined other industry chief executives in talking up ChatGPT’s potential to positively impact their businesses across a range of functions.
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European SAF development ‘put back a decade’ by US IRA measures
Aviation stakeholders have urged the European Commission to consider improving its sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) incentives in light of the measures included US Inflation Reduction Act, which one airline chief executive described as a global “game-changer”.
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Lufthansa CEO positive on ITA deal but says price must reflect €486 million loss
Lufthansa Group chief executive Carsten Spohr is confident a deal can be reached on taking an ITA Airways stake before an exclusivity period ends, but says the latter’s valuation must reflect its newly announced full-year loss.
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USA has ‘thrown down the gauntlet’ on SAF investment: European airline chiefs
The USA has “thrown down the gauntlet” when it comes to investments in sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) and Europe must act in kind, according to the chief executives of Europe’s largest airlines.
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‘Time for excuses is over’ on European airspace reform: airline chiefs
The chief executives of Europe’s largest airlines have renewed calls for Europe’s airspace to be reformed, including through a new approach to financing air traffic management (ATM) services.
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Engine MRO delays prompt Air Baltic to wet-lease four more aircraft
Air Baltic will take an additional four aircraft on short-term wet-lease to offset engine maintenance delays relating to its fleet of Airbus A220-300 jets.
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Juneyao Air receives first A321neo assembled in Tianjin
Juneyao Air has taken delivery of the first Airbus A321neo to be completed at the airframer’s final assembly line (FAL) in Tianjin.
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Airline Business
Indian airlines seek stronger footholds as boom beckons
More evidence emerged this week of India’s airline market being a hotbed of activity, as a host of executives spoke at an industry event.
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Airline Business
Airline Business performance tracker: Europe Q4 2022
Key data from the most-recent European earnings period – the fourth quarter of 2022 – and the equivalent periods stretching back to the last pre-Covid year, powered by Airline Business Insight
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Airlines for Europe names new managing director
Airlines for Europe has named Ourania Georgoutsakou as its new managing director following the departure in February of founding leader Thomas Reynaert.
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Lufthansa Cargo chief to become next head of Brussels Airlines
Lufthansa Cargo chief Dorothea von Boxberg will become the new chief executive of Brussels Airlines, following the recent departure of Peter Gerber.
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Airline Business
Airline Business performance tracker: Americas Q4 2022
Key data from the most-recent Americas earnings period – the fourth quarter of 2022 – and the equivalent periods stretching back to the last pre-Covid year, powered by Airline Business Insight
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Lufthansa picks Boston as first destination for A380 return
Lufthansa will resume Airbus A380 operations on 1 June with daily flights from Munich to Boston, marking the return of an aircraft type that once looked unlikely to fly for the carrier again.
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Carbon removal ‘a necessity’ for aviation to reach net-zero emissions: IPCC report
Aviation’s status as a ‘hard to abate’ sector when it comes to greenhouse gas emissions was laid bare in the latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change