Air Transport

To better synchronize and promote airport and development in the Philippines, the country’s Department of Tourism (DOT) and Department of Transportation (DOTr) signed a memorandum of agreement Jan. 8 for the “Institutionalized Leveraging of Infrastructure Program for Airport Development (iLIPAD).”

Luis Gallego to Chief Executive Officer of International Airlines Group, UK (effective March 26); Willie Walsh is retiring.

AAPA members flew 110.4b RPKs in November, up 3.6% vs Nov 2018; capacity rose 2.6% to 137.9b ASKs. PLF was 80.1%.

IATA reports year-over-year global pax traffic increased 3.3% in November on 1.8% higher capacity; cargo traffic fell 1.1%.

AERCAP completed 353 aircraft transactions, including 192 lease agreements, 65 purchases and 96 sales, in 2019 vs 436, including 257, 76 and 103, in

ZEPHYRUS AVIATION CAPITAL purchased two 737-800s (37758/37760; leased to FLAIR AIRLINES) from AerSale.

GOL is projecting EBITDA margin of 37-39% for 4Q19 on 11% higher year-over-year PRASK; traffic rose 6%.

IDB DEVELOPMENT is looking to sell ISRAIR in 2020 and has had preliminary talks with FORTISSIMO CAPITAL on a deal.

Phil Griffiths to Managing Director of Floreat Aviation Capital, UK.

RANGER AIR, TX acquired ex-Ikar 767-300ER (28111) with PW4000s for part out in Goodyear, AZ.

All Nippon Airways (ANA) expects to receive its third Airbus A380 in April, which will allow the carrier to move to an all-A380 service on the busy route between Tokyo Narita airport and Honolulu.

International Airlines Group (IAG) CEO Willie Walsh will stand down from his position Mar. 26 and formally retire June 30, the company said Jan. 9.

Ukraine International Airlines (UIA) flight PS752 was attempting to return to Tehran’s Imam Khomeini International Airport when it crashed Jan. 8, killing all 176 people on board, Iran’s civil aviation authority said in a statement on its website.

SP’s Civil Aviation Yearbook follows the tradition of the publisher’s Military Yearbook which was first published 55 years ago.

Emirates customers can now travel on codeshare flights to over 30 destinations on Flydubai, while Flydubai customers have over 70 destinations they can travel to on Emirates.

EgyptAir and Air Cairo have initialised their first step of cooperation through signing a codeshare agreement extending both airlines’ networks to further destinations domestically and beyond Cairo Airport.

Clark prepares for retirement by leaving Emirates from a position of strength.

Companies are laying off workers, and forecasts for commercial aerospace are being revised downward. It was not supposed to be this way.

Tempo of Boeing’s ecoDemonstrator program to accelerate amid renewed focus on sustainability and advanced technology initiatives.

While dismantling of two Airbus A380s is underway and A380 production is winding down, Airbus’ hopes for a secondhand market dim.

Weekly look at a major airline’s latest fleet, financial and operational data.

Officials from Ukraine and executives from Ukraine International Airlines (UIA) headed to Tehran, Iran on Jan. 8 to learn more about what brought down a UIA Boeing 737-800 shortly after it departed Imam Khomeini International Airport (IKA) earlier that day, killing all 179 people on board.

Aeromexico and American Airlines are the two latest airlines to settle with Boeing over compensation terms related to the ongoing grounding of the 737 MAX.

Delta Air Lines is looking to capitalize on its status as the world’s most-profitable airline by investing in a host of applications ranging from exoskeleton suits for employees to an expanded partnership with U.S.-based rideshare company Lyft.

Ankara-based Turkish Aerospace, which took significant steps toward developing an indigenous defense sector in 2019, continues to play a major role supplying civil aircraft manufacturers.