Air Transport

HELVETIC AIRWAYS began operating the E195-E2 into London City Airport, the largest aircraft to serve airport.

AMERICAN plans in 4Q25 to begin OKC-Cancun and Indianapolis-/Nashville-/Pittsburgh-/Raleigh-Punta Cana (737).

MACQUARIE AIRFINANCE, Ireland priced private offering of US$650m in senior notes to repay certain debt.

Frank Wulf teamed with US-based SkyWorks Holdings to support its airline and lessor lending origination business.

AIRASIA AVIATION GROUP plans by 2Q25 to introduce >30 new routes and achieve full recovery in 2025 with fleet of 234 narrowbodies/323,336 weekly seats across five short-haul airlines; 16 aircraft remain to be reactivated and another 14 new aircraft (four from Airbus and 10 from lessors)are scheduled for delivery by end 2025.

ALASKA AIRLINES plans September 12 to begin Seattle-Seoul Incheon (A330-200).

IBERIA plans October 26 to begin Madrid-Orlando (A330); and -Recife/-Forteleza, Brazil (A321XLR) in 1Q26.

UNITED AIRLINES opened $16m, 91,000 sq ft Tech Ops Training Center (TTC) at Houston IAH with sheet metal and composite training shops, desktop simulators for scenario-based engine maintenance and inspection training.

EMIRATES plans to introduce 777s with upgraded cabins to eight more destinations (Lisbon, Dublin, Hong Kong, Maldives, Kolkata, Colombo, Johannesburg and Cape Town) under plan to serve 44 cities with its fleet of refurbished 777s and A380sby September 2025. It is rolling out a refurbished aircraft into service every three weeks.

TAAG completed restoration work on 777-200 (34565) for return to service; it had been inoperable since 2020.

ACC AVIATION, London was retained by Nigeria's Galactic Aviation to remarket ex-NG Eagle ERJ 145MP (360).

FRONTIER AIRLINES plans June 12 to begin San Diego-Chicago/-Salt Lake City (A320).

SKYMARK AIRLINES, Japan signed loan agreement with Export-Import Bank of the United States to finance aircraft PDPs for four 737-8s on order to improve capital efficiency and allocate resources toward future aircraft acquisitions. It also secured US$40.5m loan from syndicate of eight regional banks led by Bank of Yokohama for business development.

AERCAP priced offering of $500m of fixed-rate reset junior subordinated notes due 2056 for general corporate purposes, which may include the redemption of all or a portion of AerCap Global Aviation Trust's outstanding debt.

Mitigating the effects of global inflation is one focus for aerospace supplier FACC, as the company reports strong revenue and prepares for a Comac ramp-up.

The first scheduled flight of an Embraer 195-E2 at London City on March 26 could be the start of squeezing more utility out of the short-runway site.

While some nagging issues persist, Airbus' Christian Scherer reports “encouraging signs of overall performance improvement” in its supply chains.

Helvetic Airways hopes its Embraer E195-E2 at London City Airport will provide additional capacity and potentially new leisure destinations.

Japan Airlines has ambitions to utilize its dedicated domestic-service fleet for international routes to meet capacity demand.

Representatives of Aeropuertos Mexicanos spoke during Routes Americas 2025 about its airports’ latest successes and key target markets to increase air connectivity across the Mexican Pacific coast.

Changi Airport has been crowned the Overall Winner at the Routes Asia 2025 Awards, while also securing the top honor in the Over 20 Million Passengers category.

The fourth quarter (Q4) of 2024 saw record-high operating revenues for three of Europe’s major airline groups, with two reporting positive net results.

A close look at the potential effects that tariffs —which could take effect April 2, according to President Trump—could have on the supply chain.

Some senior executives are seeing a strong growth trend in important outbound Japanese and Chinese markets.

Emirates is marking 25 years of flying to Sydney having launched its service to Sydney in March 2000 with four weekly flights via Singapore.