Air Transport

Jose Eduardo Moreira to Head of Technical, based in Lisbon, of World Star Aviation.

SWISS says it has placed five A330s into temporary storage and is accelerating retirement of some older A320s and deferring deliveries of some new

AIR BUSAN, South Korea took delivery of new LEAP-powered A321neo (10412) on lease from SMBC Aviation Capital.

LUFTHANSA GROUP had €72m net loss in 3Q20 (vs €1.2b net profit in 3Q19) on 49% lower revenues vs 3Q19 and ended quarter with €11.9b of available

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ATLAS AIR had $119.5m net income for 3Q21 (vs $74.1m in 3Q20) on 26% higher revenues; it has $784.1m in cash.

Maarten Grift to Sales Manager-Africa, Middle East and CIS of TrueNoord.

IATA reports global pax traffic was down 53.4% in Sept 2021 (vs Aug 2019) on 43.6% lower capacity; cargo increased 9.1%.

Peter Siaw to Head of Originations and Leasing-APAC, based in Singapore, of Aquila Air Capital.

Al Wood to Chief Executive Officer of Aquila Air Capital, New York.

JetBlue Airways and Icelandair are widening their existing codeshare agreement to increase flight options between North America and Europe.

Air Canada believes it can return to 2019 capacity levels by 2023, sooner than it previously forecast, citing encouraging trends since Canada’s borders reopened to vaccinated travelers in September.

AVIANCA received Bankruptcy Court approval for its Plan of Reorganization and expects to emerge from Chapter 11 by end 2021 with significantly reduced

S7 took delivery of second GTF-powered A320neo (10499) on lease from Aviation Capital Group; third is due by end 2021.

AirAsia has unveiled the first aircraft in its planned narrowbody freighter fleet, and in the longer-term the carrier is interested in the prospect of a freighter version of the Airbus A321neo.

DAE earned $134.4m on $925m revenues in 3Q21 vs $178.8m on $984m in 3Q20; it ended quarter with $3.4b of liquidity.

The Russian flag-carrier opened the East Siberia base back in May with three Boeing 737-800 aircraft based at the airport.

Ethiopian Airlines has renewed its support for The Canada-Africa Chamber of Business, following the three-day Africa Accelerating conference.

Etihad Airways has launched flights to the holy city of Medina from 27 November 2021.

Emirates has announced that it will reintroduce flights to Algiers, Algeria from 9 November.

Airbus, Dassault Aviation, ONERA, the French Ministry of Transports and Safran have launched the first A319neo flight with 100% sustainable aviation fuel.

On Tuesday Pakistan denied a Go First (formerly Go Air) flight from Srinagar-Sharjah through its airspace.

China has been a major driver of growth for Boeing and Airbus in the 2020s, but sees no urgency to buy more aircraft.

Bill O’Brien to Financial Controller of Griffin Global Asset Management, Dublin.

Eimear Konkoly to Vice President of Griffin Global Asset Management, Dublin.