Lufthansa Group is making another shift to its regional airline portfolio with plans to transfer Airbus A319s from Lufthansa mainline to Lufthansa’s CityLine regional carrier, starting in 2019.
Dubai Aerospace Enterprise’s (DAE) leasing arm DAE Capital completed eight leasing transactions in 3Q 2018 and closed an $800 million revolving loan facility during the quarter, the parent company said in a review of the period released Oct. 11.
Italian unions have welcomed progress on the future of Alitalia and called for attention to be focused on developing the carrier’s long-haul network, particularly flights to the U.S.
AE Industrial Partners, a private equity investor, has acquired Wichita-baseed Aerostructures Acquisition, doing business as The Atlas Group, a manufacturer of complex assemblies for business, commercial and military aircraft.
European pilots called on Irish LCC Ryanair to reverse its decision to close bases in Eindhoven, Netherlands and Bremen, Germany in order to ensure progress in talks with unions.
Canadian ultra-LCC Jetlines said delivery of its first two aircraft is on schedule for “early” second quarter 2019 following its second set of advance lease payments to lessor AerCap.
Delta Air Lines' push to control costs and generate revenues through its growing inventory of premium products is helping the carrier offset rising fuel expenses, and executives believe the airline is on track to mitigate all of 2019's expected fuel-cost increase.
Airbus has completed the second of three flight-test campaigns in the Blade demonstration program, aimed at evaluating the feasibility of natural laminar flow on a commercial aircraft.
International Airlines Group (IAG) said British Airways’ director of network, fleet and alliances Sean Doyle will replace outgoing Aer Lingus chief executive Stephen Kavanagh.
CEFA Aviation, a France-based company specializing in flight replay via animation, is offering pilots the ability to virtually relive their flight immediately after landing, instead of waiting for conventional, lengthy flight data analysis processes.
The runway at Yakutsk airport was iced over when a Yakutia Airline Sukhoi Superjet 100 (SSJ100) skidded off Oct. 9, Russia’s Federal Air Transport Agency Rosaviatsia said in an Oct. 10 statement.
The U.K.’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has launched a competition investigation into the Atlantic Joint Business Agreement, a transatlantic partnership between American Airlines, British Airways, Iberia and Finnair.
The U.S. Justice Department arrested and indicted a Chinese security officer earlier this year for alleged economic espionage and trying to steal trade secrets from “multiple” U.S. aviation and aerospace companies, including GE Aviation in Ohio, agency officials said Oct. 10.
JetBlue's newly announced additions to its Boston, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and New York John F. Kennedy (JFK) schedules represent the next steps in its strategy of increasing margins by fortifying already-strong networks in its three focus cities.
WestJet will base its initial Boeing 787s at its Calgary, Alberta, hub and launch nonstop services next year to three European cities in its network, bringing two new routes to Calgary International Airport (YYC) in the process, the airline confirmed Oct. 10.
Twenty aviation companies have presented a seven-step “Smart and Sustainable” plan to the Dutch infrastructure minister with the goal of cutting at least 35% of Netherlands-originated civil-aviation CO2 emissions by 2030.
Swedish aircraft humidity-control specialist CTT Systems said it will be affected seriously by Boeing’s decision to no longer include its Zonal Drying moisture-control system as basic equipment on the 787.
Lufthansa and Ryanair‘s Austria-based LCC, LaudaMotion, have agreed to end a dispute over aircraft leases that escalated in July. Both companies now can avoid a Nov. 18 court hearing in London.
