Air Transport

In this edition of Insight we are delighted to welcome to the programme His Excellency Ibrahim Al-Omar, the Director General of Saudi Arabian Airlines Corporation.

The end-of-year peak season is highlighting the challenges the air cargo business has faced since early on in the pandemic.

De Havilland Aircraft of Canada Ltd. will complete the few remaining Dash 8-400s under production at its Toronto facility before pausing production to review “future opportunities.”

Two Airbus A350s arrived at Canada’s Montreal-Trudeau International Airport on Nov. 9 having avoided emitting more than 6 metric tons of CO2 by flying in geese-like formation across the Atlantic from Toulouse.

SMARTWINGS secured winter season wet-lease contracts for nine 737-800s from ISRAIR (5), ARKIA (1) and SWIFT AIR (3).

US DOT says US scheduled airlines employed 718,407 workers in September 2021, down 3.3% vs September 2019.

BOEING booked order from an unidentified customer for eight 737 MAXs; it has to date booked 720 orders (373 net) in 2021.

FINNAIR says it plans to serve ~100 destinations in Asia, US and Europe during summer 2022 (begins March 27), including new long-haul routes out of

GE announced plan to form three independently-run, global public companies by spinning-off its Healthcare business in 1H23 and its Renewable Energy

TRIUMPH GROUP had $9.1m net loss on $357m revenues for second quarter ended Sept 30 vs $33.5m loss on $482m a year ago; it has $1.94b backlog. Based

ZEROAVIA announced partnership agreements with both India's HINDUSTAN AERONAUTICS and ASL AVIATION HOLDINGS to develop hydrogen-electric powertrain

BOEING forecasts (as part of CMO announced in September) demand in Asia Pacific for 17,645 aircraft (13,500 narrowbodies) worth $3.1 trillion over

J&C AERO, Lithuania was selected by SmartLynx Airlines to secure EASA STC to utilize five A330s in Zero-LOPA configuration.

TRIUMPH GEARED SOLUTIONS has 10-year contract extension from Rolls-Royce to supply gear boxes and loose gears out of Park City, UT and Macomb, MI.

DE HAVILLAND CANADA announced it is completing Dash 8 aircraft currently under production at Downsview and will then start to decommission facility

ELITAVIA MALTA has acquired ex-Air Atlanta Icelandic 747-400BDSF (27044) for wet-lease to MESK AIR, UAE.

GOL projects its 4Q21 capacity to be up 29% vs 4Q20 (102 aircraft in service); it expects to close 4Q21 with R$3.8b in liquidity.

GOL had R$2.5b net loss in 3Q21 (vs R$171m loss in 3Q19) on 48% lower revenues vs 3Q19; it ended quarter with 114 737NGs and 15 737-8s, but plans to

The $1.2 trillion infrastructure package passed by the U.S. House of Representatives will send at least $25 billion to fund airport infrastructure upgrades.

Airbus Helicopters has performed what it claims to be the first helicopter flight on 100% sustainable aviation fuel, albeit powering only one of the two engines on the H225 testbed.

Startup ZeroAvia has partnered with India’s Hindustan Aeronautics to develop a supplemental type certificate for its conversion of the 19-passenger Dornier 228 regional turboprop to hydrogen-electric propulsion.

Jean Pierson "enabled Airbus Industrie to leverage its different national strengths and with his foresight and the different innovation capabilities, set our company on the path to success," Airbus CEO Guillaume Faury said of the former leader of the European OEM.

Boeing’s latest Current Market Outlook (CMO) highlights the degree to which global aviation growth will be driven by the Asia-Pacific region, according to a senior Boeing executive.

As air travel recovers, Finnair plans to fly to almost 100 destinations in Asia, the U.S. and Europe during the next summer schedule, which begins March 27, 2022.

For the aerospace and defense industry, the breakup of General Electric has spurred a flurry of brainstorming over how GE Aviation could combine with other A&D assets to form the next industry colossus.