Air Transport

Abdelhamid Addou, Royal Air Maroc chairman and CEO, wants to accelerate the national airline’s development to turn it into a continental leader. Vincent Chappard reports.

Singapore Airlines reshuffles group to strengthen its business model, seeking new partnerships and introducing advanced aircraft types.

Now that Brexit happened, what does this mean for aviation and aircraft aftermarkets? Wait and see, according to Robert Ricketts, a UK-based solicitor

Emirates said it will conclude 2019 with a successful string of product, network, and customer experience highlights.

Calendar of upcoming events of interest to the aviation industry.

The steadily growing Chinese coronavirus outbreak triggered a fresh set of airline route reductions and suspensions Jan. 31, as carriers sought to

ARPE-E, the U.S. Energy Department’s (DOE) DARPA-inspired advanced research projects agency, has launched two programs to develop propulsion technology for all-electric, 150-200-seat narrowbody airliners.

Hawaiian Airlines will continue flying its fleet of Boeing 717 narrowbodies through at least the middle of the decade, despite their average age of more than 20 years, the airline’s chief executive said Jan. 30.

A sixth process for producing sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) has been approved by standards body ASTM International.

Delta Air Lines has signed an offtake agreement with Northwest Advanced Bio-Fuels (NWABF) that could result in deliveries of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) beginning by the end of 2024 if a feasibility study now underway supports construction of a biorefinery in Washington state.

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Bi-national leisure airline SunExpress has named Max Kownatzki as its new CEO, succeeding Jens Bischof, who is to become CEO of Lufthansa Group LCC Eurowings.

The Singapore government has enhanced efforts to prevent the spread of the Wuhan coronavirus by preventing all passengers who have traveled to China in the last two weeks from entering the country, regardless of nationality.

ORIOLE (Jamaican/European consortium) is being formed in Jamaica for startup of LCC services in early 2021 (aircraft TBD).

ANADOLU JET leased second ex-Ryanair 737-800 (34996) from Banc of America Leasing; third (34995) is expected shortly, plus ex-Ryanair 737-800 (40316)

AMERICAN reached tentative agreement with TWU-IAM on joint CBAs covering >31,000 maintenance/fleet service workers.

Singapore Airlines (SIA) and All Nippon Airways (ANA) inked a joint venture (JV) framework agreement Jan. 31, confirming earlier reports the two Star Alliance members were working on a cooperation deal.

U.S. regional carrier SkyWest signed a firm order Jan. 30 for 20 Embraer E175 regional jets.

American Airlines has requested permission to operate 14 weekly frequencies to Cuba that JetBlue Airways plans on returning to the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) in April.

British aerostructures provider Senior warned investors on Jan. 31 that its aerospace revenue this year could drop 20% compared with last year due to the Boeing 737 MAX production halt.

American Airlines and unions representing its mechanics fleet-service workers have reached tentative agreements, seemingly putting an end to four years of sometimes-bitter negotiations and satisfying workers’ demands on capping outsourcing and other key provisions.

QANTAS opened new training facility in Toowoomba to train 250 pilots per year using DA40s/DA42s; site has 1,500 sq meter hangar and four simulators.

SKYWEST had $340m net income for 2019 (vs $280m in 2018) on 7.8% lower revenues; it ended year with 156 E175s/327 CRJs.