Air Transport

MESA had $14.1m net income for first quarter ended Dec 31 (vs $10.8m a year ago) on 18% lower revenues, and ended quarter with 136 aircraft in service

Jiten Chopra to Chief Financial Officer of IndiGo, India.

Warwick Brady to President and Chief Executive Officer of Swissport International.

LUFTHANSA SYSTEMS extended deal with EVA Air, Taiwan to provide SchedConnect codeshare management solution.

DAE had US$250.2m pretax profit on US$1.3b revenues in 2020 vs $413.6m on $1.4b in 2019. It has $2.7b of liquidity.

ADB SAFEGATE has installed its automated docking and apron management solutions at new Salt Lake City International Airport (SLC), which opened 4Q20.

SINGAPORE AIRLINES GROUP is deferring >S$4b in CAPEX (aircraft deliveries) from FY20/21-FY22/23 to later years; it also converted 14 787-10s to 11 777

While U.S. airlines lost nearly $45 billion in 2020, one unlikely carrier managed to close out 2020 without experiencing a single unprofitable quarter.

Etihad Airways said Feb. 9 that it had become the world’s first airline to have vaccinated all its operating pilots and cabin crew against COVID-19.

Emirates Airline president Tim Clark expects the recovery of air travel to be delayed beyond the upcoming summer season and foresees a substantial return of demand only in the 2021 fourth quarter.

Israel has extended the temporary closure of Tel Aviv Ben Gurion International (TLV) as the country looks to keep out new variants of COVID-19.

Air Canada is suspending service on 17 more routes until April 30 at the earliest as it grapples with new travel restrictions imposed by the Canadian government designed to mitigate the spread of COVID-19.

U.S. leisure carrier Allegiant Air is adding 34 new nonstop routes to its summer schedule, plus a further nine limited-time services to support South Dakota’s Sturgis Motorcycle Rally in August.

Korean Air plans to reduce its passenger fleet again this year by delaying scheduled deliveries and returning some aircraft to lessors.

Ground handling giant Swissport has appointed industry veteran Warwick Brady as its new president and CEO.

Urban air mobility startup Archer is to go public in a deal that will raise up to $1.1 billion to fund commercialization of the company’s all-electric air taxi.

Etihad Airways has become the first airline in the world with all its operating pilots and cabin crew vaccinated to help curb the spread of COVID-19 and give passengers who travel with the airline peace of mind.

Ethiopian Airlines has decided to continue operating the Boeing 737 MAX and now plans to return the aircraft to service in July.

Indonesia National Transportation Safety Committee (KNKT) officials investigating the Jan. 9 crash of Sriwijaya Air Flight SJ182 are further examining the Boeing 737-500’s autothrottle system.

AirAsia Group recorded a strong recovery in passenger volumes in the 2020 fourth quarter (Q4), notably in domestic carriage across Indonesia, the Philippines and Thailand.

Disruptive paradigms are not a new threat to commercial aviation, even this century, yet here we are. Is this time different?

The big lessors are in much better financial shape than their customers, and their market share and influence will only rise as they provide customers financial help.

Tightening restrictions are getting in the way of airlines’ expectations of a summer recovery.

AVELO AIR, TX is expected to acquire ex-Turkish Airlines 737-800 (34407) from Fuyo General Lease in preparation for startup.

AERLYTIX and FLIGHTAWARE teamed to develop Aerlytix Alert Tracker to enable global aviation financing industry to monitor its fleets.