Air Transport

IATA has added a ‘quote and book’ function to IATA Net Rates. This enables airlines to offer freight forwarders dynamic pricing for booking their shipments.

Morocco has halted flights to and from the UK, Germany, and the Netherlands ‘indefinitely’ after the three nations have seen an increase in the cases of Covid-19.

The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has launched Air Congo as a joint venture company with Ethiopian Airlines.

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Long-term retirement totals expected to stay the same, but revised timing could create supply chain issues.

American Airlines said it expects to see a strong holiday travel season during the 2021 fourth quarter (Q4), after the delta coronavirus variant harmed profitability in the third quarter (Q3).

Southwest Airlines remains in the midst of a hiring push to alleviate operational challenges it encountered during the third quarter, but the airline is also turning attention to building up network depth over the next year to recover more quickly from irregular operations.

After posting a profit during the third quarter, Alaska Air Group is warning that fallout from the delta coronavirus variant will reduce its 2021 fourth quarter (Q4) revenue by $200 million.

Airlines in Germany, the Netherlands and the UK are scrambling to arrange repatriation flights for passengers in Morocco, after the North African country banned all flights to and from the European nations from 11:59 p.m., local time, Oct. 20.

AMERICAN AIRLINES is projecting 4Q21 capacity to be down 11-13% vs 4Q19, but expects robust demand during peak travel periods.

AIR ASTANA reconfigured five A320neos into 2-class layout with 16 B/E Aerospace business/132 economy class seats.

ALASKA AIRLINES says it is operating 85% of its pre-COVID-19 network with operations at its Seattle hub fully restored.

FLY2SKY, Bulgaria leased two ex-AtlasGlobal A321-200s (1451/1503) for pax/cargo (in Zero-LOPA) charters/ACMI projects.

GALISTAIR, Malta leased ex-Viva Air Colombia A320-200 (1757) with CFM56s from Arena Aviation Capital.

Nicolas Ferri to Vice President-EMEAI, based in Paris working closely with European JV partners Air France, KLM and Virgin, of Delta.

ICELANDAIR GROUP had US$19.6m net income on $257.5m revenues in 3Q21; it ended quarter with nine 737-8s and expects to have 12 by January 2022 and is

AMERICAN AIRLINES had $169m net income for 3Q21 (vs $425m in 3Q19) on 24% lower revenues vs 3Q19. It says it is continuing to execute on plan to pay

Icelandair has reported a third-quarter (Q3) net profit of $19.6 million despite the coronavirus delta variant negatively affecting September load factor figures and unit revenues.

SOUTHWEST AIRLINES ordered eight more 737-7 and now has 399 737 MAXs on firm order for delivery through 2031.

SOUTHWEST AIRLINES posted $446m net income for 3Q21 (vs $659m in 3Q19) on 17% lower revenues vs 3Q19; it says profit was driven by $763m offset of

SOUTHWEST AIRLINES is projecting its 4Q21 capacity to be down about 8% vs 4Q19 and 1Q22 capacity to 6% down vs 1Q19.

AVELO AIRLINES plans January 13 to begin three-times-weekly New Haven, CT-Sarasota, FL (737-800), its sixth destination in Florida.

ALASKA AIR GROUP had $194m net income in 3Q21 (vs $322m in 3Q19) on 26% lower revenues vs 3Q19.

MESA AIR GROUP ordered four delivery drones, and optioned 500, from Flirtey for last-mile food and beverage market.

AVOLON had $6m net income on $518m revenues in 3Q21 vs $4m loss on $519m in 3Q20. It has $6.6b in total liquidity.