Air Transport

ALL NIPPON AIRWAYS agreed to purchase seven OEM-certified refurbished Dash 8-400s from De Havilland Canada.

RYANAIR had €360m net income on €3.63b revenues for first quarter ended June 30 vs €663m on €3.65b a year ago; pax rose 10% to 55.5m. It ended quarter with 156 737-8200s and expects 160 by end of July (20 short of expectations).

SMBC AVIATION CAPITAL exercised options for 22 GTF-powered A320neo Family aircraft on top of 20 ordered in 2021.

JAPAN AIRLINES agreed to order 10 more 787-9s, and option 10, to join fleet of >50 787s. It also has 21 MAXs on order.

DE HAVILLAND CANADA is selling four OEM-certified refurbished Dash 8-400s to WIDEROE (2), SKYWARD EXPRESS, Kenya (1) and TANZANIA (1) under recently announced program. It has to date acquired 28 aircraft for the program.

NATIONAL AIRLINES agreed to order four 777Fs for delivery in 4Q25/1Q26 to add to its fleet of nine 747-400Fs.

AIR CANADA is estimating operating income of C$466m on C$5.5b revenues in 2Q24 vs C$802m on C$5.4b in 2Q23.

KOREAN AIR signed LOI to order 20 777-9s and 20 787-10s, and option 10 787-10s, in preparation for merger with ASIANA.

LUXAIR ordered two 737-10s and optioned two. It operates 21 aircraft, including two leased 737-8s and eight 737NGs.

CANADIAN NORTH unveiled its CAE 7000XR 737NG full-flight simulator at new 30,000 sq ft training facility in Edmonton.

EMBRAER secured financing from BNDES for the export of 32 E175s to AMERICAN AIRLINES in R$4.5b deal.

FLYDUBAI says its expansion plans have been significantly hampered by Boeing's delays in its aircraft delivery schedule, resutling in fewer aircraft being delivered every year for past three years (14 due in '24 will not be delivered).

KOREAN AIR took delivery of its first 325-seat 787-10 (66878) with GEnx-1B74/75s on lease from Air Lease Corporation.

“We hope to power their ZEROe,” ZeroAvia founder and CEO Val Miftakhov said on the first day of this year's Farnborough Airshow.

This week we revisit the topic of alliances; the airlines analyzed are Oneworld's Alaska Airlines, Iberia, Royal Jordanian Airlines and SriLankan Airlines.

Demand for commercial aftermarket services remains strong in general but is showing signs of capacity shifts within the low-cost airline sector.

A GKN Aerospace-led project to develop and test a 2-megawatt cryogenic hybrid-electric propulsion system is one of five to be backed by UK government funding.

Boeing projects a global need for 674,000 pilots, 716,000 maintenance technicians and 980,000 cabin crew members over the next 20 years.

Delta Air Lines is working to recover from an operational disruption set into motion by an outside vendor technology issue that surfaced on July 19.

The Port Moresby-based airline ordered six A220-100s direct from Airbus in November 2023. It is also acquiring a further two A220-100s, together with three A220-300s, from lessors.

The newly re-elected European Commission is gearing up for more debate over some all-too familiar issues, with sustainability efforts dominating the discourse.

Pratt says the engine developed for the company’s Hybrid-Electric Propulsion (HEP) flight demonstrator has run at full power for the first time.

IAG CEO Luis Gallego told an audience at Farnborough Airshow that recent action by the European Commission bodes well for its proposed acquisition of Air Europa.

Boeing’s newest Pilot and Technician Outlook expects growth in technician demand, but the OEM highlights training issues as a major hurdle.

Drukair has signed on with Airbus for three A320neos and two A321XLRs in a move that underlines Bhutan’s ambitions to become better connected.