Air Transport

Boeing and Safran have put their APU joint venture on hold because of changes in the commercial aviation market due to COVID-19, a Safran spokesperson has confirmed.

India’s Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has extended the duration of its 80% limit on how much pre-COVID-19 capacity airlines in the country are allowed to fly.

Boeing delivered 20 long-idled 737 MAXs from its stored backlog to customers in January and one from its production line, an Aviation Week analysis shows.

Hamilton, New Zealand-based aircraft manufacturer Pacific Aerospace has succumbed to financial difficulties and shut down its operations.

The EU is pressing on with increasing the performance of its navigation satellites, despite slow adoption among airlines.

AIR CANADA had C$1.2b net loss for 4Q20 (vs C$152m profit in 4Q19) on 81% lower revenues; and C$4.6b net loss in 2020 (vs C$1.5b profit in 2019) on 70

France’s transport minister has called for “fair competition” regarding conditions set to be imposed by the European Commission (EC) on a planned state recapitalization of Air France-KLM.

The Republic of Turkey plans to move ahead with six new airport projects and predicts that the hub of Istanbul will gain even more importance once the COVID-19 pandemic ends.

Germany’s federal government has agreed to grant 12 airports a total of €200 million ($240 million) in financial aid and pledged to support three more in which it holds equity stakes.

Agency’s focus is primarily on pilot human-factors issues.

FRANKFURT AIRPORT handled 883k pax in January, down 80.9% vs January 2020; cargo rose 18.1% to 176,266 tons.

AERO CAPITAL SOLUTIONS, TX announced it acquired 20 A320ceo Family aircraft from easyJet in purchase/leaseback transaction over two tranches in 2020

CANADIAN NORTH agreed to lease ex-WestJet 737-700 (32768) from Castlelake.

SMARTAVIA, Russia leased ex-SpiceJet 737-800 (39424) from DAE Capital.

AVATION secured lease agreement for new ATR 72-600 (1591) with unidentified Asian carrier for delivery in March 2021, and also reached agreement with

SPIRIT AIRLINES expects to take delivery of 16 A320neo Family aircraft in 2021 and 17 in 2022; it received nine in 2020.

LONDON HEATHROW handled 677k pax in January, down 88.9% vs Jan 2020; movements decreased 75% and cargo traffic dropped 21.1% to 91,466 tonnes.

SPIRIT AIRLINES had $157.3m net loss in 4Q20 (vs $81.2m profit in 4Q19) on 48.6% lower revenues; and $428.7m net loss in 2020 (vs $335m profit in 2019

ALTA members flew 36.4b RPKs in December, down 55.7% vs December 2019, on 49.1% lower capacity; and 348.9b RPKs in 2020, down 61.9% vs 2019, on 55.7%

AVOLON lost $37m on $2.3b lease revenues in 2020 vs $725m profit on $2.6b in 2019, and ended year with owned/managed/committed fleet of 842 aircraft

COPA lost $598.6m in 2020 (vs $247m profit in 2019) on 70.4% lower revenues. It ended year with fleet of 75 aircraft, including 68 737-800s and seven