Air Transport

CHAIR AIRLINES, Switzerland leased ex-Aeroflot A320-200 (3923) with CFM56s from Merx Aviation.

LUFTHANSA plans March 27 to begin Munich-Rio de Janeiro/-San Diego (A350-900).

RYANAIR plans April 2022 to begin twice-weekly Manchester-Genoa (737).

SPIRIT AIRLINES plans in April 2022 to begin service to Memphis from Las Vegas and Orlando (A320), then later LAX.

Andy Jennings to Head of Technical of Novus Aviation Capital, Dubai.

Peter Wenham to Head of Digitalisation of Novus Aviation Capital, Dubai.

JETBLUE finalized 5-year contract with its inflight crewmembers, represented by the Transport Workers Union (TWU).

EUROWINGS is wet-leasing two A220-300s from airBaltic for the winter 2021/22 season out of Stuttgart.

BRITISH AIRWAYS plans to begin Gatwick-JFK on May 28 (777) and Heathrow-Portland/-Pittsburgh on June 3 (787).

LEVEL plans March 28 to begin four-times-weekly Barcelona-Los Angeles (A330-200).

BRITISH AIRWAYS identified 35 short-haul destinations for its new Gatwick subsidiary, to launch in March with mainline aircraft until obtaining its

American Airlines announced a shakeup of its senior leadership ranks that will take place when current President Robert Isom replaces Doug Parker as CEO in March 2022.

Boeing added 91 net orders to its backlog in November, as 18 737 MAX cancellations offset a share of the 109 total new firm purchases, the company said Dec. 14.

UK Health Secretary Sajid Javid has decided to remove all 11 countries from the UK COVID-19 travel red list now that the omicron coronavirus variant has become prevalent.

The lineup of U.S. major airline CEOs will look quite different in Spring 2022, by which time three big industry names will have retired.

UK long-haul carrier Virgin Atlantic has secured £400 million ($530 million) in fresh funding and has finalized a lease agreement on two Airbus A350-1000s with U.S. lessor Air Lease Corporation.

The lineup of US major airline CEOs will look quite different from spring 2022, by which time three big industry names will have retired.

Chris VandenBerg to Chief Engineer-Software of Panasonic Avionics, Lake Forest, CA.

Elise Eberwein, Executive VP-People and Global Engagement of American Airlines, announced her plan to retire at the end of June.

Priya Aiyar to Senior Vice President-Corporate Affairs and Chief Legal Officer; Cole Brown to Senior Vice President/Chief People Officer: Ron DeFeo to

Thomas Hoff Andersson to Chief Operating Officer of Flughafen Berlin Brandenburg, Germany.

Derek Kerr, Chief Financial Officer (and President-American Eagle) of American Airlines, was also named Vice Chair.

AIRBALTIC plans in May 2022 to open new base in Tampere, Finland serving seven cities with A220-300s.

EASTERN AIRLINES joined IATA as IOSA-certified member with 767s/777s.

MIAMI INTL AIRPORT handled 3.9m pax in November, up 6% from 3.67m pax in Nov 2019, its first full month of growth than in same month in 2019.