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NewsBlue Air continues hub push by switching Paris flights to Charles de Gaulle
Romanian budget carrier Blue Air will in December begin flights to Paris Charles de Gaulle as it continues a move into Europe’s biggest hubs. In a social media post, the Romanian carrier says it will switch its existing Bucharest-Paris service from Beauvais to Charles de Gaulle from 18 December. ...
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NewsGerman airports edge closer to receiving state support
Germany’s federal and regional governments will discuss over the next two weeks the possibility of providing state aid to airports in the country to help them recover from the Covid-19 crisis. The European Commission in August approved a proposal by Germany that would enable authorities at federal, state and municipal ...
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NewsKLM gets green light for €3.4 billion state loan package
KLM has received final approval for its “crucial” €3.4 billion ($4 billion) loan package from the Dutch government. The airline states in a 6 November stock-exchange notice that following agreements with eight trade unions, it has now “satisfied a key requirement” for accessing the aid, “ensuring final approval” of the ...
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NewsFinnair defers delivery of three remaining Airbus A350s
Finnair has reached an agreement with Airbus to defer delivery of its three outstanding A350-900s by around two years. The Oneworld carrier says the three A350-900s were originally scheduled for delivery from the second quarter of next year through to the second quarter of 2022. Finnair says the new delivery ...
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NewsUnusual airworthiness concerns arise for pandemic-struck fleets
US and European safety regulators are having to address a number of potential airworthiness concerns arising from the unusual circumstances created by the coronavirus pandemic, as aircraft are retrieved from storage or treated in the course of operations. Operators of Boeing 737s that had been in storage were ordered by ...
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NewsSIA seals Airbus deferrals, Boeing negotiations reach ‘advanced stage’
Singapore Airlines Group has confirmed that its outstanding Airbus aircraft on order have been deferred and that it is close to concluding similar talks with Boeing. In today disclosing record half year losses amid the coronavirus crisis, SIA Group states that it has “concluded negotiations with Airbus on a revised ...
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NewsSteep impairment costs drag SIA to record S$3.5 billion net loss for half year
Singapore Airlines Group took on a hefty impairment charge of S$1.33 billion ($987 million) from the early retirement of 26 older aircraft — including seven Airbus A380s — which led to a record net loss in its half-yearly earnings. The group says that the 26 aircraft were “deemed surplus to ...
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NewsRossiya A319 found damaged on arrival with cable attached to wheels
Russian investigators are probing an incident in which a Rossiya Airbus A319 was found to have a cable attached to its main landing-gear after arriving at St Petersburg. The aircraft (VP-BWJ) had been operating the FV6314 service from Krasnodar on 3 November, according to an incident bulletin from the federal ...
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NewsJAL to raise Y168 billion in foreign and domestic share placements
Japan Airlines is looking to raise nearly Y168 billion ($1.6 billion) in share placements, part of which will go toward fleet development, as well as to its newly-formed low-cost unit Zipair Tokyo. The Oneworld carrier will issue more than 90 million shares, with nearly two-thirds to be offered in domestic ...
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NewsEasyJet further cuts winter capacity and sells more aircraft
EasyJet will now operate no more than 20% of its planned capacity in the last quarter of the calendar year and has sealed sale-and-leaseback deals covering a further 11 aircraft as it continues efforts to counter the crisis.
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NewsLeonardo waits on ATR recovery as 2020 deliveries slide to one unit in first nine months
Leonardo remains confident that its ATR turboprop joint venture will recover to a “normal” level of annual deliveries in the future after it was revealed that it shipped just one aircraft in the first nine months of this year, but says it cannot forecast when that will be.
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NewsCockpit union dissuades prospective pilots from enrolling to train
UK cockpit crew representatives have taken the unusual step of warning against embarking on a career as a commercial pilot, given the expense and diminished prospects of employment. The UK pilot union BALPA says the crisis means there are fewer jobs for cockpit crew, and competition for places will be ...
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NewsFresh lockdown prompts British Airways to suspend Gatwick flights
British Airways is suspending flights at London Gatwick airport as a result of the fresh national lockdown in the UK which took effect today. The Oneworld carrier, which consolidated flights at London Heathrow airport during the first wave of the pandemic earlier this year, says it is reducing flights at ...
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NewsUK fraud investigators probe Bombardier over Garuda Indonesia deals
UK fraud investigators are probing aircraft manufacturer Bombardier over contracts relating to Asian carrier Garuda Indonesia. The Serious Fraud Office states that it is investigating the manufacturer over “suspected bribery and corruption” in connection with orders or agreements with Garuda. It has not elaborated on the probe, pointing out that ...
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NewsLufthansa outlines long-haul fleet plan for Eurowings
Lufthansa Group foresees that Eurowings will operate no more than seven long-haul aircraft in 2021 amid plans for the low-cost subsidiary’s intercontinental operations to be consolidated in new unit Ocean.
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NewsIberia deploys first converted Airbus A330 freighter
Iberia has put its first converted Airbus A330 freighter into service, operating on flights between Madrid and Los Angeles.
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NewsNorwegian debt-equity swap follows 90% fall in October traffic
Scandinavian low-cost carrier Norwegian has converted another €1.7 million ($2 million) of debt into equity after perpetual bondholders agreed to swap loans for shares. The bonds are being converted into nearly 4.6 million new, freely tradeable shares in the company, states Norwegian in a 5 November notice to the Oslo ...
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NewsWizz maintains focus on A321neo as fleet expansion slows
Wizz Air’s latest fleet plan projects a slower overall increase in the number of aircraft, compared with the beginning of this year, but with a focus on expanding the A321neo rather than the A320neo fleet. At the beginning of 2020, before the onset of the air transport crisis, the carrier ...
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NewsAir cargo demand helps Korean to Q3 operating profit
Air cargo demand helped Korean Air eke out an operating profit of W7.6 billion ($6.5 million) in the third quarter — its second consecutive profitable quarter since the coronavirus struck — but its overall revenue was down more than half from a year earlier. The W7.6 billion operating result for ...
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NewsLufthansa to scale winter capacity back after further losses in third quarter
Lufthansa Group will cut capacity to no more than a quarter of previous-year levels for the rest of the 2020 after disclosing a third-quarter net loss of almost €2 billion ($2.3 billion).