Air Transport World

Florin Susanu has been appointed as the provisional GM of Romanian flag carrier Tarom.
Airlines & Lessors

Indonesia LCC Lion Air is preparing to hold an initial public offering (IPO), according to multiple media reports.
Airlines & Lessors

By Polina Montag-Girmes
Russia’s Atran Airlines, an air express subsidiary of Volga-Dnepr Group, took delivery of its first Boeing 737-800BCF March 20, becoming the first operator of the type in the country.
Maintenance & Training

By Victoria Moores
Central and Eastern European LCC Wizz Air has accelerated the expansion of its base in Krakow, Poland, adding a third Airbus A321 and six new routes.
Airports & Networks

By Victoria Moores
EasyJet CEO Johan Lundgren is not actively looking at any other acquisitions after withdrawing from the Alitalia sale process. He also ruled out a shift to a group structure, as rival LCC Ryanair plans, or branching out into long-haul, low-cost operations.
Airlines & Lessors

2018 Fiscal year financial results to-date for airlines worldwide, highlighting operating revenues, operating expenses, operating profits/losses and net income/losses for each airline's 2018 fiscal year or equivalent.
Airlines & Lessors

By Linda Blachly
People-March 20, 2019
Airlines & Lessors

By Alan Dron
An Iran Air Fokker F100 had to make a wheels-up landing in the Iranian capital, Tehran, after a reported hydraulic failure led to the main undercarriage legs failing to deploy.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Alan Dron
British Airways (BA) has brought in assistance on another route as it seeks to cope with the continuing disruption caused by problems with its Rolls-Royce Trent 1000 engines.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Thierry Dubois
All Nippon Airways (ANA) received its first of three Airbus A380s March 20, which the carrier plans to use to double capacity between Japan and Hawaii.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Sean Broderick
US operators with Boeing 737 MAXs are shuffling aircraft assignments and canceling flights to address gaps created by grounded MAXs, and may have enough flexibility to keep the ramifications of a short-term grounding minimal.
Aircraft & Propulsion

Any effort to sell Malaysia Airlines Bhd (MAB) would meet stiff resistance, one analyst contended, after Malaysian prime minister Mahathir Mohamad said that is one option the government is considering for the flag carrier.
Airlines & Lessors

US Department of Transportation (DOT) secretary Elaine Chao on March 19 requested the Department’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) initiate a probe to review the process FAA used to certify the Boeing 737 MAX as safe prior to the two fatal crashes in Ethiopia and Indonesia.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Alan Dron
Etihad Airways and Gulf Air are to step up their recently signed wide-ranging cooperative agreement by instituting a codeshare from the start of the industry’s summer timetable season.
Airports & Networks

By Helen Massy-Beresford
The new majority shareholder of French long-haul focused airline Corsair, Intro Aviation, plans to revamp the carrier’s fleet, switching to an all-Airbus formation and increasing the fleet to 13 aircraft by 2023 to reduce costs and drive growth.
Aircraft & Propulsion

Airbus and Boeing commercial aircraft deliveries for 2019 year-to-date, sorted by most-recent delivery date.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Michael Bruno
Embraer’s John Slattery will be the first CEO of the Boeing-Embraer commercial aircraft joint venture (JV) the manufacturers expect to launch by the end of the year, reporting to Boeing’s Marc Allen, who will take a new position in charge of Boeing’s JVs with Embraer, the companies announced March 20.
Aircraft & Propulsion

Airbus and Boeing commercial aircraft gross orders for 2019 year-to-date, sorted by most-recent date of order placement with manufacturer.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Thierry Dubois
The International Federation of Air Line Pilots’ Associations (IFALPA) is concerned most flight decks lack tools allowing pilots to be aware of the trim’s position, according to a position paper published March 7.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Bill Carey
With the nomination of Stephen Dickson to serve as the next FAA administrator, US President Donald Trump has selected a former airline pilot steeped in the NextGen air traffic control (ATC) modernization effort who has also been a prominent opponent of spinning off the agency’s ATC function as a nonprofit corporation.
Airlines & Lessors

Despite the crashes of two Boeing 737 MAX 8s in five months, Qatar Airways Group CEO Akbar Al Baker says his confidence in the aircraft and the manufacturer remains unchanged.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Adrian Schofield, Sean Broderick
The cockpit voice recorder (CVR) from the Lion Air JT610 crash—a Boeing 737 MAX 8—reportedly reveals more detail about how the crew attempted to solve the aircraft’s repeated descents.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

The White House confirmed March 19 that US President Donald Trump will nominate former Delta Air Lines executive and pilot Stephen Dickson to head the FAA, ending a 15-month stretch for the agency without a permanent leader.
Airlines & Lessors

By Mark Nensel
Avianca is canceling orders for 17 Airbus A320neo family aircraft and deferring delivery of 35 more by at least seven years, the Colombia-based airline said March 15.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Sean Broderick
Air Canada has pulled the Boeing 737 MAX from its schedule until at least July 1, and has reshuffled its schedule and aircraft assignments to accommodate the capacity reductions.
Safety, Ops & Regulation