Air Transport

Jordi Pla Pintre, Director of Network Strategy and Long-Term Planning at Vueling Airlines, outlines what it meant to win the Airline Award category at this year’s Routes Awards.

The FAA’s warning cites an increase in GPS/GNSS jamming and potential spoofing in “conflict zones and areas of heightened tensions."

The Air Transport Action Group (ATAG) has was welcomed the outcome of COP28 in Dubai after it called to ‘transition away’ from fossil fuels by 2050.

Emirates Airlines has revealed how passengers spent their time inflight, after researching data to see exactly Emirates customers watched and listened to on flights.

Etihad Airways has become one of the first airlines to use Artificial Intelligence (AI) to enhance safety management systems.

Riyadh Air has signed a strategic agreement with Swiss Aviation Software to leverage their Aviation Maintenance and Engineering software solution AMOS.

In this TATV Spotlight programme, Adrian Paull, Vice President Customer Services at L3Harris explains why the US-based company is making a stronger play in the aftermarket, especially around the used equipment business as it brings forward solutions that improve product availability and customer service.

Boom Supersonic has chosen Honeywell’s Anthem integrated flight deck for its Mach 1.7 Overture airliner.

This week's Flight Friday looks back at passenger flights (cycles) during 2023.

Belgian airports face a weekend of disruption as activists target the country’s aviation sector with planned protests starting Dec. 15 through Dec. 17.

Carriers are looking for optimizations in the year ahead while keeping a close eye on costs, as post-pandemic growth settles into a measured pace.

Listen in is as Ethiopian Airlines CCO Lemma Yadecha Gudeta talks about closing in on a 400-seat aircraft order.

PHILIPPINE AIRLINES and AMERICAN AIRLINES launched codeshare partnership for services between two countries.

PORTER AIRLINES and ALASKA AIRLINES announced codeshare partnership for services between two countries.

DEUTSCHE AIRCRAFT has LOI from an undisclosed customer for four 40-seat D328eco turboprops.

TRUENOORD agreed to acquire 11 aircraft (four Dash 8-400s, three E175s and four E190) from Nordic Aviation Capital, increasing its fleet to 87 aircraft; aircraft are leased to Aviair, LOT, Widerøe, Air Canada and Breeze Airways.

HUMO AIR wet-leased (ACMI) two A320-200s from Fly2Sky through March '24 for operation out of Tashkent, Uzbekistan.

RYANAIR is investing $1.4b to boost services in Morocco in Summer 2024; it is opening new base at Tangier with two 737s, increasing based fleet in country to 14 (seven at Marrakesh; three at Fez; two at Agadir) serving 175 routes.

ASHLAND PLACE issued its inaugural aviation loan asset-backed securitization (ABS) of $324.3m, backed by a static pool of loan facilities secured by 19 narrowbodies, three widebodies and four narrowbody engines on lease to 12 lessees.

SWIFTAIR, Spain agreed to lease two EFW-converted A321P2Fs from AerCap for delivery in April/June 2024.

Angela Geremia to Vice President of Asset Management of TrueAero, TX.

SAS sold new LEAP-powered A320neo (11832) to Aviation Capital Group for leaseback, the seventh of a 10-aircraft deal.

JAPAN AIRLINES plans January 2024 to introduce its first A350-1000 on Tokyo Haneda-JFK; it is scheduled to receive its second aircraft by end 1Q24 to enable daily A350-1000 operations. It will operate third aircraft on Haneda-DFW.

LOGANAIR leased ex-Avianca ATR 72-600 (1124) from Jetstream Aviation Capital.

The European Union Aviation Safety Agency has published noise standards for electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing aircraft.