Air Transport

By Polina Montag-Girmes
Russia’s Aeroflot Airline will launch 5X-weekly Moscow Sheremetyevo-Singapore service from Oct. 25, the first step in a strategy to develop its Europe-Asia network.
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Lori Ranson
Dominican Republic-based ULCC Flycana hopes to launch operations during the 2020 fourth quarter and has ambitions to more than double the destinations it serves from the Dominican Republic by its fifth year of operations.
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LUFTHANSA SYSTEMS has Lufthansa Group contract to provide its NetLine/Ops ++ operations management system (initially) for Lufthansa, Lufthansa
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SPIRIT AIRLINES had $81.2m net income in 4Q19 (vs $91.9m in 4Q18) on 12.4% higher revenues, and $335m net income in 2019 (vs $156m in 2018) on 15.3%
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IATA reports year-over-year global pax traffic rose 4.2% in 2019 (vs 7.3% growth in 2018) on 3.4% higher capacity; air cargo fell 3.3% on 2.1% higher
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By Bradley Perrett
SYDNEY—Mitsubishi Aircraft has deferred first delivery of the SpaceJet by at least nine months—from mid-2020 until no earlier than the fiscal year
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MAGNETIC MRO agreed to purchase four 737CLs (27454/29073/29075/29267) from airBaltic; it plans to remarket aircraft.
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SPIRIT sold sixth new A320neo to Jackson Square Aviation, and leased it back; Smith, Gambrell & Russell advised full deal.
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JET2.COM, UK leased ex-Thomas Cook A321-200 (6639) with CFM56s from Avolon.
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By Chen Chuanren
Korean Air (KAL) is taking steps to improve its financial position, which include selling an idle property and a development company.
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By Chen Chuanren, Helen Massy-Beresford
The Chinese Lunar New Year is traditionally one of the strongest periods for Chinese airlines, where millions of Chinese citizens travel across the country to return home for the festive season.
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By Jens Flottau
EASA published an emergency airworthiness directive (AD) Feb. 6 requiring a liquid-prohibited zone in Airbus A350 cockpits, following two inflight engine shutdown incidents.
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For four years, Yemen Airways has attempted to keep services running during the country’s civil war. The company’s chairman, Ahmed Masood Alwani, explains how.
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The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has urged governments to quickly implement the International Civil Aviation Organization’s (ICAO’s) global guidelines for restoring air connectivity.
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By Jens Flottau
As the LOT Polish Airlines case shows, governments are interfering more with European airlines, not less.
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By Thierry Dubois
Under agreements with French, UK and U.S. authorities, Airbus will pay $4 billion to settle a large-scale bribery scandal.
Aerospace

Weekly profile of a major airline.
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By Ben Goldstein
United Airlines has purchased a Phoenix-area flight training academy to feed into its pilot pipeline, part of the carrier’s efforts to hire more than 10,000 new pilots by 2029.
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By Bill Carey
Panasonic Avionics Corp. said Feb. 5 that it will supply the inflight entertainment (IFE) system for Kuwait Airways’ new Airbus A330-800neo widebodies.
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By Sean Broderick
AVENTURA, Florida—Bloomberg Intelligence analysts expect Boeing’s next product launch to target the larger narrowbody market and see the new midmarket airplane (NMA) as all but doomed thanks in large part to Airbus A321XLR orders by some of the NMA’s most likely customers.
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CONTOUR AIRLINES plans June 10 to begin twice-daily St. Louis-Indianapolis (ERJ).
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AIR FRANCE took delivery of its fourth A350-900 (381), the 350th A350; it plans to take 38 A350s by 2025.
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Erlendur Svavarsson to Chief Executive Officer of Cabo Verde Airlines.
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PEGASUS is expected to write-off 737-800 (37742) following runway excursion after landing at Istanbul-Sabiha Gökçen.
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ENTER AIR, Poland agreed to wet-lease two 189-pax 737-800s from Go2Sky, Slovakia for Summer 2020.
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