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SOUTHWEST AIRLINES entered into sale-leaseback transactions for 10 737 MAX 8s with BOC Aviation and 10 737-800s with an unidentified investor; it
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DELTA AIR LINES plans to retire its 18 777s by end of 2020 due to COVID-19 crisis, and will replace aircraft with A350s.
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ISRAEL AEROSPACE INDUSTRIES (with TLD and SAS) is expanding its TaxiBot operation/deployment to Amsterdam Schiphol and Bangalore Airport, India for
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EMIRATES plans May 21 to restart scheduled services to nine international destinations: London, Frankfurt, Paris, Milan, Madrid, Chicago, Toronto
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AIR ASTANA is resuming some domestic services, and expects to be operating 30% of its pre-crisis network by the end of May.
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AIRBALTIC plans May 18 to restart scheduled services to three cities (Amsterdam/Copenhagen/Oslo) with an all-A220 fleet.
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AZUL, Brazil has deferred delivery of its 59 E2-Jets on order from 2020-2023 to 2024 and beyond to create more liquidity.
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GOL is currently projecting year-over-year capacity drop of 45% in 2020 (30% in 4Q20); it grounded 120 737s in late March and in April flew 7% of
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GOL says it has reduced 737 MAX deliveries in 2020/2021/2022 by 14/20/13 aircraft respectively (SPNWS; April 17).
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AIRCASTLE had $34.2m net loss on $282.5m revenues in 1Q20 vs $34.8m net profit on $190m in 1Q19; it acquired four narrowbodies in 1Q20 for $82.3m and
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BOEING CEO said it is most likely a major US airline will go out of business in 2020 as he predicts pax traffic will not even rebound to 25% of normal
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BOEING booked no aircraft orders in April, but did record cancellations for 108 737 MAXs; it ended April with 49 orders (-516 net) in 2020. It has
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CAPA is projecting domestic airline capacity in Australia will reach 49% of 2019 levels by Oct 2020 and 60% by mid-Dec 2020.
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