All Europe articles – Page 298
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Airline BusinessTourism key as Turkish carriers target growth return in 2020
A mixed picture in which tourism grew strongly but domestic traffic was sharply down lay behind the first year in a decade in which annual passenger numbers fell at Turkey’s two biggest carriers in 2019.
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NewsTarom cleared to take 'stringently-monitored' rescue loan
Rescue aid for Romanian flag-carrier Tarom, amounting to nearly €37 million, has been cleared by European Commission regulators. The Romanian government had previously indicated that it was aiming to support the ailing operator with a funding package, and notified regulators earlier this month. Tarom faces an “acute liquidity shortage” arising ...
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NewsMajor European airline stocks drop on coronavirus concerns
Share prices in the three main European alliance carriers have fallen sharply in early trading, apparently in response to increasing concerns over the international spread of the coronavirus. While major European stock indices – including those in Germany, France, the Benelux states and the UK – slipped by around 3-4% ...
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NewsMoldovan start-up HiSky led by former chief of flag-carrier
Former Air Moldova chief Iulian Scorpan is heading up a private start-up budget carrier, branded HiSky, for the Central European republic. While all Moldovan carriers, with the exception of Air Moldova, FlyOne and Aerotranscargo, are blacklisted, the start-up will be formed through a partnership with a Romanian operating carrier, Cobrex ...
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NewsFrench probe low-speed incident during A350 go-around
French investigators are probing an incident involving a French Bee Airbus A350-900 during a go-around at Paris Orly. The twinjet (F-HREV) had been conducting its approach to runway 25 on 4 February, following a service from San Francisco. French investigation authority BEA states that the approach was aborted owing to ...
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NewsFirst Air France A380 enters retirement in Ireland
The first of up to four ex-Air France Airbus A380s has been positioned into Ireland West Airport for storage, signalling the start of the airline’s superjumbo retirement process.
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NewsLufthansa effectively grounds 13 widebodies amid China suspension
Lufthansa has made a network capacity cut equivalent to 13 widebodies, after suspending services to mainland China amid the coronavirus outbreak. The Star Alliance group says it is taking the opportunity to carry out maintenance work and add reserve capacity in Frankfurt, Munich, Vienna and Zurich. “The 13 aircraft are ...
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NewsNew Swiss airline FlyBair partners with Helvetic
A partially crowdfunded Swiss airline named “FlyBair”, to be headquartered in Switzerland’s capital Bern, says that it has partnered with regional carrier Helvetic Airways ahead of beginning service to European vacation destinations from May 2020.
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NewsFrance's Groupe ADP to take 49% of Indian airport operator GMR
Parisian airports operator Groupe ADP has provisionally agreed to take a 49% shareholding in the Indian company GMR Airports. The agreement, conditional on regulatory approval, will involve acquisition of an initial shareholding of just under 25% within a few days. ADP states that a further stage will result in its ...
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NewsCondor tie-up with LOT cleared by German authorities
German competition regulator Bundeskartellamt has cleared Polish firm Polska Grupa Lotnicza’s acquisition of leisure carrier Condor. The regulator has determined that there is “no relevant overlap” between the activities of Condor – formerly part of Thomas Cook Group – and Polish flag-carrier LOT, a subsidiary of PGL. Bundeskartellamt president Andreas ...
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NewsAir France-KLM studies fleet options if coronavirus impact lasts
Air France-KLM is considering how it could redeploy summer capacity to other markets where demand is stronger in the event of an extended coronavirus impact on its Chinese and broader Asian networks.
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NewsHow A4E is answering Europe’s airline sustainability challenge
Sustainability is the hot topic for industry body Airlines for Europe (A4E) as it heads towards its annual Aviation Summit in Brussels on 3 March.
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NewsBelavia steps up to E2 under new lease deal
Belarussian operator Belavia has signed for three of the re-engined Embraer 195-E2 regional jet, expanding its operations with the E-Jet family. Belavia is to take the first of the three Pratt & Whitney PW1900G-powered aircraft in December this year. The airline has reached the lease agreement with AerCap, the lessor ...
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NewsAir France-KLM takes €126m charge for A380 withdrawal
Air France’s withdrawal of the Airbus A380 fleet has resulted in its parent taking a €126 million ($136 million) impairment on the aircraft type. The flag-carrier disclosed last year that it would retire its A380 fleet by 2022, just 13 years after introducing the double-deck type. Air France originally ordered ...
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NewsAeroflot A350s and 777s spearhead three-year expansion
Aeroflot Group is nearing delivery of its first Airbus A350-900, a central part of the Russian operator’s fleet modernisation and international expansion strategy for the next three years. It will receive its first 316-seat Rolls-Royce Trent XWB-powered A350 at the end of this month, gradually using the twinjet type to ...
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NewsFuel costs and cargo slump drag Air France-KLM profits down in 2019
Air France-KLM full-year operating profits slipped nearly a fifth in 2019 as higher fuel costs and a deteriorating cargo market hit its performance.
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NewsBoeing asks for suspension of its tax subsidies
Boeing has asked for its tax breaks to be suspended amid an acrimonious and escalating trade war between the USA and the European Union, targeting its respective aircraft manufacturers, that threatens to play long-term havoc on aircraft deliveries on both continents.
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NewsCatalyst turboprop flight testing “to start this spring”
GE Aviation’s delayed Catalyst turboprop programme has advanced enough that a maiden flight test is now scheduled for this spring with certification targeted for autumn 2021, according to the company’s European aero engines unit, Avio Aero.
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NewsTarom starts turboprop upgrade with first new ATR 72-600
Romanian flag-carrier Tarom has started taking delivery of a batch of ATR 72-600s it is receiving under a lease agreement with Nordic Aviation Capital. The operator disclosed last year that it was introducing nine of the turboprop type to modernise its fleet. Tarom has unveiled a revised colour scheme for ...
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NewsQatar Airways lifts IAG stake to 25%
Qatar Airways has increased its shareholding in British Airways and Iberia parent IAG from 21.4% to 25.1%.