Air Transport

AERCAP had $295m net loss on $4.5b revenues in 2020 vs $1.2b net income on $4.9b in 2019 and ended year with owned/managed/committed fleet of 1,330
Air Transport

By Michael Bruno
Solvay Composites Materials Global Business has sold its process materials business to Composites One, a Chicagoland supplier of composites materials and services.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Guy Ferneyhough
Italy’s plans to relaunch Alitalia have been pared back following a March 1 meeting headed by the country’s newly appointed Prime Minister Mario Draghi, Italian newspaper La Repubblica reported.
Airlines & Lessors

By Adrian Schofield
Thai Airways has submitted a restructuring plan that will see the airline emerge from administration with a significantly reduced operation.
Airlines & Lessors

By David Casey
Air Canada has announced a shake-up of its regional services by making Jazz Aviation the sole operator of Air Canada Express flights.
Airlines & Lessors

By Chen Chuanren
The Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) is still yet to begin recertifying the Boeing 737 MAX, saying that major safety concerns raised have “not been fully met.”
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Graham Warwick
Short-seller attack on Chinese startup EHang highlights the risks to investors in a nascent market.
Program Management

By Graham Warwick
Reverse merger with blank-check investment vehicle will vault Joby to the top of the UAM valuation league.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Ben Goldstein
Delta Air Lines said it plans to return all pilots to active status by October, signaling a faster-than-expected timeline for demand recovery.
Airlines & Lessors

By Sean Broderick
The immediate fallout from United Airlines Flight 328—the Boeing 777-200 that had one of its Pratt & Whitney 4077 engines fail and shower a Denver-area neighborhood with parts on Feb. 20—falls into three categories of varying complexity.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Lori Ranson
LATAM Airlines Group plans to bolster its cargo operations during the next three years with the planned conversion of up to eight Boeing 767-300ERs.
Airlines & Lessors

By Lori Ranson
After nearly a year of being idled, Canadian operator Porter Airlines has been forced to push back its re-launch date because of continued travel restrictions.
Airlines & Lessors

By Victoria Moores
Ahead of the UK’s new immigration rules that came into effect in February, mandating multiple COVID-19 tests and mandatory quarantines in government-approved hotels for some international arriving passengers, this headline caught the eye: “You have to be desperate and wealthy to fly from Monday.”
Air Transport

By Ben Goldstein
United Airlines raised its existing Boeing 737 MAX order by 25 jets, while pulling forward dozens of aircraft deliveries scheduled over the next few years.
Airlines & Lessors

By Jens Flottau
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines is shifting focus slightly on its Embraer E1 and E2 fleets in the recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic.
Small Narrowbody Jets

By Victoria Moores
Indian carrier IndiGo has signed a sale and leaseback agreement on eight Airbus A320neos with BOC Aviation, marking its second aircraft refinancing deal in quick succession.
Airlines & Lessors

By Victoria Moores
Czech Airlines (CSA) has filed for court reorganization as a last-ditch survival attempt, following the Czech government’s continued refusal to provide any COVID-19 support.
Airlines & Lessors

By Helen Massy-Beresford
Organizations representing airports, airlines and the tourism sector are calling on European tourism ministers to work together to establish a strategy for post-pandemic travel recovery in the region.
Airlines & Lessors

FORWARDKEYS says domestic air travel in China during New Year Golden Week (Feb 11-17) was down 69.3% vs a year ago.
Air Transport