Air Transport

Garuda Indonesia will be subsumed into a new state holding company once the national carrier’s debt restructuring is complete.

Over the summer travel months of July and August, Emirates handled nearly 1.2 million customers at its hub, compared to 402,000 customers during the same period in 2020.

The U.S. startup has teamed with UK-based LCC easyJet on the project to get direct airline input while it is still in the development phase.

An effective global COVID-19 vaccine rollout, improved coordination of government travel policies and luck with variants will be needed.

Virgin Atlantic is shrinking the business-class cabin inside some of its A350-1000s to make way for more economy seats in a new seating layout tailored for certain leisure routes, beginning with flights from London Heathrow to Orlando, Florida.

Ryanair said it had been in discussions with Boeing about “a large follow-on order for Boeing MAX 10 aircraft" but now "both sides have agreed to waste no more time on these negotiations” after failing to agree on price.

Lakson Group, one of Pakistan's leading business conglomerates and Air Arabia Group, are to form of a joint venture to launch ‘Fly Jinnah’, Pakistan’s new airline.

This weekend United Airlines became the first US carrier to deliver COVID-19 vaccines to Ghana.

Skyworld Aviation has announced the sale of a second ERJ 145 aircraft to Mwant Jet of the Democratic Republic of Congo.

The proposed airline, to be known as Fly Jinnah, will operate as a joint venture and adopt Air Arabia’s low-cost model.

The island state was among the first countries in the world to implement a stringent ban on the type on March 12, 2019.

KLM will not operate certain routes to North America this winter after the Dutch government designated the U.S. a “very high-risk area.”

An incumbent LCC and a new-entrant hybrid carrier both have ambitious growth plans.

In a long-expected move, Philippine Airlines has filed for bankruptcy protection.

Alaska Air Group rolled out a new company-wide COVID-19 vaccination policy that will reward employees who get vaccinated and penalize those who do not—but will not mandate staff get vaccinated like other airlines have.

An Embraer E190-E2 regional jet made its first commercial flight into London City Airport (LCY) on Sept. 2.

Bookings for business destinations have more than doubled over recent weeks, Eurowings reported, although they are recovering from low levels.

Envoy Air and PSA Airlines recently struck new agreements that include tiers of bonuses rewarding both new hires and current pilots, further solidifying parent company American Airlines’ pilot pathway.

Having a vaccinated workforce offers multiple benefits for airlines, but one of the key questions airlines must confront is what happens to workers that either do not want to be vaccinated or are medically unable to receive the vaccine.

Management at Curaçao International Airport believe there is an opportunity for an airline to offer a direct route to the island from LGA.

HELVETIC AIRWAYS made first commercial flight of E190-E2 into London City.

Spirit AeroSystems began accumulating Boeing 737 MAX fuselages at its Wichita site after the FAA grounded the aircraft in 2019.

Germany-based Eurowings Discover launches its first scheduled flights on July 24 from Frankfurt to Mombasa and Zanzibar. The Lufthansa Group-owned

The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has announced that both international and domestic travel demand showed significant momentum in July 2021 compared to June, but demand remained far below pre-pandemic levels.

In the month of August 2021, air passenger traffic reached 46.8% compared to same month in 2019 while capacity was at 54.6%.