Technology firms Sabre and Amadeus will remove Aeroflot’s inventory from their respective global distribution systems (GDS) due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Embraer is no longer supporting operators in Russia and Belarus, joining other major Western aerospace manufacturers in taking action in response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Despite the overall strong recovery of air transport in traffic, orders and deliveries, Thales is still considering its commercial aviation business to be in an early convalescence phase, according to CEO Patrice Caine.
Lufthansa group subsidiaries Austrian Airlines, Brussels Airlines and SWISS all reported increased revenues and substantial reductions in annual losses as cost-reduction plans and fleet re-evaluations have taken hold.
Shipping rates are rising again in the aftermath of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, while the inability of Russian-owned freighters to operate as usual takes significant capacity out of the market.
Lessor Air Transport Services Group (ATSG) has committed to nine more conversion slots for the A330 Passenger-to-Freighter (P2F) with Elbe Flugzeugwerke (EFW), the conversion joint venture between ST Engineering and Airbus.
Scott Laurence, who left JetBlue for Delta Air Lines in January 2022 only to depart the following month, will lead American Airlines’ partnership strategy.
Lufthansa is looking to place orders for additional aircraft, now that the airline is expecting a strong bounce-back in demand pent-up during the pandemic and despite new risks emerging as a result of the war in Ukraine.
New imagery from Ukraine suggests the only example of the world’s largest aircraft, the Antonov An-225, was badly damaged during fighting at the company’s airfield at Hostomel, near Kyiv.
