Air Transport

By Bill Carey
Most airline passengers are concerned with the health environment on the airplane as opposed to the airport, an online survey by Honeywell Aerospace indicates.
Airlines & Lessors

LAUDA (Ryanair) is expected to shut down its base at Vienna on May 29.
Air Transport

PAKISTAN INTERNATIONAL AIRLINES will write-off CFM56-powered A320-200 (2274) after crash at Karachi on May 22.
Air Transport

By Alan Dron
A group of major Danish companies is pressing ahead with plans to create what it describes as one of the world’s largest sustainable fuel production facilities.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Maxim Pyadushkin
MOSCOW—A Russian government official has confirmed that COVID-19 restrictions have delayed the certification of the country’s new Irkut MC-21 narrowbody commercial airliner.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Adrian Schofield
Fiji Airways has decided to lay off half of its employees and seek additional financing to improve its prospects of surviving the COVID-19 crisis.
Airlines & Lessors

By Michael Bruno
The U.S. is girding to ward off Chinese tentacles that could reach into the western aerospace ecosystem after COVID-19.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Wesley Charnock
Welcome to Routes’ weekly look at how the Middle East and African aviation markets are responding to the COVID-19 pandemic, helping you understand the schedule changes and manage the impact so we can navigate through this crisis together.
Airlines & Lessors

By Helen Massy-Beresford
EasyJet has said its finance director Andrew Findlay will step down in a year’s time in the latest twist in an ongoing dispute between management and the LCC’s founder and biggest shareholder, Stelios Haji-Ioannou.
Airlines & Lessors

The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has released analysis showing that the airline industry’s global debt could rise to $550 billion by year-end. That’s a $120 billion increase over debt levels at the start of 2020.
Air Transport

Congo Airways has converted an order made in December 2019 for two E175 aircraft, with purchase rights for two more.
Air Transport

Three years after America lifted most sanctions against Sudan, local carriers like Tarco Aviation are still in a fight for survival. Bushra Abushora, the airline’s strategic planning director, told Martin Rivers how the sector is coping.
Air Transport

AWIN Knowledge Center

By Chen Chuanren
Kazakh flag-carrier Air Astana has announced plans to convert its three passenger Boeing 767-300ERs into freighters and create an air cargo division.
Airlines & Lessors

By Jens Flottau
LATAM Airlines has become the latest high-profile victim of the COVID-19 crisis as it filed for Chapter 11 proceedings on May 26 at the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York.
Airlines & Lessors

By Bill Carey
Diminished air traffic movements force a reassessment of future manpower needs.
Airports & Networks

By Adrian Schofield
Thai Airways has made sweeping changes to its board as it begins its restructuring and the government has reduced its majority stake in the carrier to ease the process.
Airlines & Lessors

By Jens Flottau
FRANKFURT—The German government approved a €9 billion ($9.8 billion) rescue package for Lufthansa May 25, keeping the airline out of insolvency while returning as its largest shareholder.
Airlines & Lessors