All Airlines articles – Page 254
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NewsQatar Airways activates Boeing 787-9 fleet
Qatar Airways has begun operating its Boeing 787-9 fleet, putting four of the long-haul twinjets into service.
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NewsGerman carrier Sundair in restructuring under ‘protective shield’
Sundair has launched a restructuring process under a ‘protective shield’ procedure that enables the German leisure airline to continue operations. It tells Cirium that the process, enshrined in German legislation, is not an insolvency procedure, but rather applies to companies that “recognise business problems at an early stage” and have ...
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NewsWhat messages do BA and EasyJet chiefs have for Greta Thunberg?
Sustainability was firmly establishing itself as the airline industry’s greatest long-term challenge before the coronavirus pandemic hit.
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NewsLanding 747 crew unaware of short runway before striking construction vehicles
Nigerian investigators have disclosed that the crew of a Boeing 747-200 freighter did not receive critical information about reduced available landing distance at Abuja before the aircraft landed, veered off the runway and collided with construction equipment. The Armenian-registered Veteran Avia aircraft (EK-74798) had been operating a wet-lease cargo service ...
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NewsStobart bids for fresh Aer Lingus deal to speed regional airline sale
Stobart Group has entered a tender to secure a long-term flying agreement with Aer Lingus beyond 2022 as part of its effort to dispose of regional carrier Stobart Air before the end of March 2021.
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NewsQantas, Jetstar gear up for Sydney-Melbourne reboot
Qantas and low-cost unit Jetstar plan to operate “thousands of flights” following the decision by the New South Wales state to open its borders from 23 November. The border opening to Victoria state will see the two carriers operate over 250 flights across five routes, to Victoria’s capital Melbourne and ...
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NewsPool of financeable airlines down to a handful: Wings Capital
The pool of airlines that lenders are willing to accept as collateral has gone “really just down to a handful” amid the Covid-19 pandemic, the chief financial officer of Wings Capital Partners has said. At the beginning of the crisis, everyone in the industry was “just trying to assess what ...
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NewsAircastle’s profit falls to $5.8 million in Q3
Lessor Aircastle has posted a $5.8 million profit for the third quarter ended 30 September, a significant drop on the same quarter last year when the lessor made $43.3 million in profit. Total lease revenue for the three months was down 12.5% to $189 million, while total revenues dropped 18.8% ...
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NewsMexico’s Interjet future unclear amid strike, operational halt and reports of near-bankruptcy
Mexico’s low-cost carrier Interjet is on the verge of collapse after the airline cancelled flights over the weekend and a union representing its workers called for a strike to protest unpaid wages, reports say.
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NewsKLM clears path to bailout with union deals
KLM has reached an agreement with the FNV Cabine, FNV Luchtvaart and VNV unions – representing flight attendants, ground personnel and pilots – clearing the Dutch carrier to receive €3.4 billion ($4 billion) in government loans and guarantees.
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NewsSpain agrees €475m Air Europa aid package
Spain’s cabinet has agreed a €475 million ($552 million) support package for Air Europa, the first funding delivered under a wider scheme established by the government in July. The funds have been released as part of a €10 billion solvency support fund for strategic companies set aside by the Spanish ...
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NewsShift to domestic markets helps Volotea limit crisis impact on traffic
European carrier Volotea is crediting a shift of its network strategy to focus on domestic flights for a July-September traffic performance in which declines in passenger levels were kept to less than a quarter. Volotea says it handled 2.4 million passengers in the third quarter, down only 23% on the ...
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NewsAir Canada Rouge relaunches with Cancun flight
Air Canada Rouge on 2 November flew passengers from Toronto to Cancun, Mexico, marking the first time it has operated since the start of the coronavirus pandemic travel downturn in March.
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NewsRyanair and Wizz traffic down 70% in October
Traffic data released this morning from European low-cost carriers Ryanair and Wizz Air for October shows passenger levels running 70% down on prior-year levels as travel restrictions across Europe took further hold.
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NewsLast Avro RJ leaves CityJet fleet
Irish wet-lease operator CityJet has withdrawn the last of its BAE Systems Avro RJ85 regional jets, ending a 27-year association with the type and its predecessor, the BAe146. The operator’s final RJ85, registration EI-RJF, left Dublin on 2 November bound for Reykjavik. The aircraft was en-route to the USA where ...
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NewsAirlines split into ‘haves’ and ‘have-nots’: BOC Aviation chief
The Covid-19 pandemic’s impact on the aviation industry is splitting both airlines and lessors into “haves” and “have-nots”, the chief executive of lessor BOC Aviation has said. “Obviously there are shades of grey in between, but in terms of people’s viability, obviously government support has been very important this time ...
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NewsAmerican expands pre-flight testing programme
American Airlines has expanded its pre-flight coronavirus testing programme, hoping to inspire customers’ confidence to return to air travel.
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NewsRyanair’s O’Leary plots aggressive post-Covid strategy
Ryanair will exit the coronavirus crisis leaner, more competitive and ready for expansion, group chief executive Michael O’Leary has vowed. The low-cost carrier is using the crisis to “rapidly restructure our cost base”, he explained during a 2 November half-year results call. All of the major expense items – wages, ...
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NewsATSG turns Q3 profit as it steps up 767 freighter deployments
Air Transport Services Group made an operating profit of $74 million in the third quarter, up 80% year on year, as it deployed seven Boeing 767 freighters to leasing customers to capitalise on the demand for cargo aircraft amid the pandemic. The US lessor and operator generated $404 million in ...
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NewsCapacity concerns forgotten as embattled Berlin Brandenburg finally opens
One of the ironies of Berlin Brandenburg airport’s much-delayed opening is that the onset of the air transport crisis has brought an excess of capacity to a hub which, at one point, was thought to have a shortage. Combined passenger numbers for Tegel and Schoenefeld airport for the first eight ...