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EASYJET sold nine A320 Family aircraft to Wilmington Trust SP Services (5) and Sky High 112 Leasing (4), and leased them back, generating total cash

All Nippon Airways (ANA) plans to create a new low-cost widebody unit and cut back its mainline fleet as part of a major overhaul of its strategy spurred by the COVID-19 crisis.

A return to commercial aircraft utilization decline in September has shown that recovery for the industry will be filled with twists and turns along the way.

GROUPE ADP had €1.67b in revenues in Jan-Sept, down 52.7% vs a year ago.

AZUL launched R$1.6b public offering of new debentures governed by Brazilian law and convertible into preferred shares.

US DOT says US domestic air fares averaged $259 in 2Q20, down 27.8% from $358 in 2Q19 and 22.6% from $334 in 1Q20.

If the current fragile jetliner market worsens, the U.S. and other governments might feel pressure to reconsider their nonintervention.

Two African carriers–Ethiopian Airlines and South African LCC FlySafair–have each added a pair of aircraft to their fleets, despite the ongoing COVID-19 downturn.

Slovak Boeing 737 wet-lease operator Go2Sky has reversed an earlier decision to cease operations and close the company, after reaching an agreement with its lessors.

QANTAS says it had expected group domestic capacity to be at 60% of pre-COVID levels by now, but due to continued border closures, capacity is now <30

AIRBUS is considering an increase of A320 Family production in 2H21 from 40 to 47 per month, and has asked supply chain to prepare; it stresses no

GO2SKY, Slovakia has reversed its decision to shut down and now plans to restart 737-800 ACMI services in 2021.

AMERICAN AIRLINES permanently retired its fleet of 15 A330-200s, and has removed >150 aircraft from its fleet through early retirements or by placing

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) will issue an update on its plans for the SpaceJet regional jet program on Oct. 30.

The depth and length of the impact of the COVD-19 pandemic on the air transport industry struck hard in October.

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The Air Transport Action Group (ATAG) predicts COVID-19 will have a 16% impact on traffic 30 years from now, the group said in a report, “Waypoint

A recovery to 2019 levels of profitability remains distant, but carriers believe they can stem daily losses in the medium-term future.

When Francisco Gomes Neto took over from Paulo Cesar de Souza e Silva as CEO of Embraer, the company was on a clear path. The pandemic changed everything.

Southeast Asia’s airline industry is being shaken up by a wave of restructuring programs prompted by the COVID-19 crisis, with most of the region’s flag-carriers looking to downsize to survive.

Malaysia Airports has sued AirAsia X for MYR78.2 million ($19 million) in overdue charges, which comes as the long-haul LCC embarks on a MYR63.5 billion debt restructuring.

AIR BELGIUM is placing two (921/938) of its four A340-300s into storage at Tarbes-Lourdes-Pyrenees due to overcapacity from the COVID-19 pandemic.

SINGAPORE CHANGI handled 90,200 pax in September, down 98.4% vs September 2019; air cargo dropped 26.9%.

EUROCONTROL reports single-day network aircraft movements totaled 12,221 on October 20, down 61.2% vs a year ago.