SKYEUROPE - The struggling central European budget carrier unveiled a near-trebling of full-year operating losses to €56 million ($71 million) as improved operating revenue and passenger numbers got wiped out by a two-thirds surge in fuel expenditure.
A dispute with its credit card acquirer helped push cash balances to just €1.3 million.
SkyEurope is also in payment default with GE Commercial Aviation Services, from which it leases most of its 15 Boeing 737-700s.
Source: Flight International
Airbus’s A321XLR has initially been certified with a maximum take-off weight of 97t, but the airframer is working on approval for higher weights for the twinjet. This 97t figure is the same MTOW as the XLR’s immediate predecessor, the A321LR. The airframer had originally stated – when its unveiled the ...
Colorado-based Boom continues soldiering on, and chief executive and founder Blake Scholl insists the company will yet make good on its aim to have Overture carry paying passengers by around the end of this decade.
Investigators have determined that a Delta Air Lines Airbus A330-300 touched down short of the runway at Amsterdam, after the crew sought to mitigate a perceived risk of overrun and descended below the glideslope.
