Air Transport

KOREAN AIR engaged SK Energy to purchase one month’s supply of carbon-neutral jet fuel for flights out of Jeju and Cheongju.

DELTA MATERIAL SERVICES sold MD-88 material, two MD-88 airframes, and five JT8D-219s to ERICKSON AERO TANKER to support aerial firefighting ops.

Jörg Eberhart to Chief Strategy Officer of Lufthansa Group.

MWANT JET, Congo purchased second ex-Eastern Airways ERJ145 (570) in deal arranged by Skyworld Aviation.

LUFTHANSA began operating its first A320 Family aircraft (A321neo) with Airspace cabin; it has ordered 80.

RYANAIR announced talks with Boeing for large 737-10 order ended over pricing gap; it will still take 210 737-8200s by 2025.

PHILIPPINE AIRLINES made vaoluntary decision to undergo financial restructuring under US Chapter 11 process as part of a set of major agreements

INDIGO, India agreed to lease five new ATR 72-600s from Falko Regional Aircraft for delivery by end of 2021.

Figures issued Sept. 6 by ACI Europe showed that on Aug. 1, passenger traffic through UK airports was still 72% below 2019 levels while EU airports were only down 43%.

Despite the surge in demand and strong leisure business over the summer, 2021 will still be “economically challenging,” according to Eurowings CEO Jens Bischof.

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.