Air Transport

AUSTRIAN AIRLINES plans in July to begin five-times-weekly Vienna-Los Angeles (777-200ER).
Air Transport

WESTERN AIR began daily Nassau-Fort Lauderdale, FL (ERJ).
Air Transport

DELTA AIR LINES placed its first A321neo into service (Boston-San Francisco). It has ordered 155 A321neos.
Air Transport

By Ben Goldstein
The ability of U.S. airlines to pass along higher costs for fuel and labor through increased fares may have hit its limit in April.
Airlines & Lessors

By Lori Ranson
Transport Canada plans to conduct a public interest assessment of WestJet’s plans to acquire Sunwing Vacations and Sunwing Airlines.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Graham Warwick
Honeywell is developing a suite of alternative navigation technologies to combat increasing disruption of GPS signals, intentional and unintentional, with the first products planned to be on the market in 2023.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Victoria Moores
Norwegian LCC newcomer Flyr is open to potential partnerships with other airlines, including interline agreements and codeshares.
Airlines & Lessors

By Victoria Moores
Norwegian regional airline Wideroe is looking to add up to five more De Havilland Canada DHC8-400s by 2023 and is considering another three Embraer E-Jets, although this depends on fuel prices.
Airlines & Lessors

By Victoria Moores
Airlines for Europe (A4E) has estimated that the European Commission’s Fit for 55 proposal—a wide-ranging package of sustainability regulations—could cost the industry €34.4 billion ($36.3 billion) per year by 2050.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Chen Chuanren
To accommodate a potential surge in passenger handling demand in the coming months, Singapore’s Changi Airport will partially reopen Terminal 2 (T2) starting May 29.
Airports & Networks

By Victoria Moores
UK LCC easyJet has added “Climate Change Transition” as a specific item on its corporate-risk register, highlighting the growing significance of sustainability to airline operations.
Airlines & Lessors

By Sean Broderick
Big pilots’ unions say the challenge to finding qualified flight crew member is a money problem.
Maintenance & Training

By Victoria Moores
Leasing companies are working together to support the global air transport’s collective goal of meeting 2050 net-zero carbon emission goals. The
Airlines & Lessors

By Chen Chuanren
China’s two largest airlines are not providing a clear roadmap on their future with the Boeing 737 MAX, offering no indications on when the aircraft may return to service, or even if they will take deliveries at all.
Airlines & Lessors

Global aerospace and aviation leaders and experts will address key challenges in making the industry more sustainable and discuss ways to drive greater decarbonisation at the in-person Global Aerospace Summit. The event, hosted by Mubadala, begins at the Emirates Palace in Abu Dhabi tomorrow.
Emerging Technologies

NEOM, the sustainable regional development in northwest Saudi Arabia, and Saudia have created a strategic partnership to begin offering weekly service to international destinations from NEOM Bay Airport (NUM).
Airports & Networks

The Prince Sultan Aviation Academy (PSAA), a subsidiary of Saudi Arabia’s national airline group, Saudia, has contracted L3Harris to supply a series of simulators for its Jeddah academy.
Maintenance & Training

By Adrian Schofield
Japanese government considers removing more restrictions, which will help international travel recovery.
Airlines & Lessors

Kresimir Kucko to Chief Executive Officer of Air Montenegro.
Air Transport

ACUMEN AVIATION launched fin-S online asset valuations application as part of its SPARTA cloud-based asset management platform using SaaS.
Air Transport

Onur Dedeköylü to Chief Commercial Officer of Pegasus Airlines, Turkey.
Air Transport

AIR FRANCE-KLM entered into exclusive discussions with Apollo Global Management regarding the injection of €500m (into an operating affiliate of Air
Air Transport

By Lori Ranson
United Airlines believes that aircraft availability in the short term continues to be a challenge, and that the timing of its substantial narrowbody order in 2021 was extremely favorable for the company.
Airlines & Lessors

By Adrian Schofield
Thai AirAsia X (TAAX) has become the latest Southeast Asian carrier to file for court-supervised rehabilitation in order to restructure its debts.
Airlines & Lessors

By Alan Dron
In its latest round of sanctions aimed at Russian entities in the wake of the Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the UK government has barred three Russian airlines from raising cash by selling their slots at UK airports.
Safety, Ops & Regulation