Air Transport

Jean-François Pruneau to Chief Financial Officer of Transat, Montreal.

Dawn Southerton to Vice President, Controller and Principal Account Officer of JetBlue.

BA EUROFLYER plans March 31 to begin four-times-weekly London Gatwick-Agadir, Morocco (A320).

Heike Birlenbach to new CCO of SWISS; Tamur Goudarzi Pour is moving to Head of Customer Experience for Lufthansa Group.

BA CITYFLYER plans May 18 to begin weekly London Stansted-Florence/-Ibiza/-Nice (E190).

ASL AIRLINES IRELAND has placed its first 737-800BCF with split-scimitar winglets (33023; ex-TUIfly) into service.

Oltion Carkaxhija to Executive Vice President-Strategy and Transformation of Air France-KLM.

SOUTHWEST AIRLINES teamed with Thrive Aviation for new pilot training via Destination 255° Pilot Pathways Program.

URBANX AIR (GlobalX) and EVE announced plan to launch UAM operations in South Florida starting in 2026. GlobalX previously signed LOI to order 200 eVTOLs from Eve with delivery of first 10 expected in 2026 (SPNWS; March 18, 2022)

JETSMART AIRLINES leased GTF-powered A321neo (11758) from SMBC Aviation Capital, the third of a 5-aircraft deal.

ITA AIRWAYS, Italy took delivery of new A220-100 (50070) on lease from Air Lease Corporation. It now has 10 A220s.

AIR ASTANA earned US$72.4m on US$900.6m revenues in January-September vs $61m on $747.2m a year ago. It says Group has continued to perform well in 2023, despite twin headwinds of high inflation and continued issues with GTF.

AZORRA closed $300m financing facility for 14 of 16 aircraft being acquired as part of previously announced VAH deal.

BOEING booked new orders in November from BOC AVIATION for four 737 MAXs, US DOD for 15 767-2Cs and an unidentified customer for five MAXs. It has booked 1,085 orders in 2023: 686 narrowbodies and 399 widebodies.

AVOLON agreed to order 100 A321neos and 40 737 MAXs for delivery through 2032. It has now ordered 200 aircraft (100 A321neos/80 737 MAXs/20 A330neos) and has increased its owned/managed/committed fleet to 1,037 aircraft.

VOLARIS leased GTF-powered A321neo (11490) from SMBC Aviation Capital, completing deal for two (SPNWS; Oct 27).

SAS LINK leased ex-Air Europa Express E195 (452) from Azorra, completing deal for four aircraft.

REX, Australia leased ex-GOL 737-800 (39604) from DAE Capital and now has 10 737-800s.

GENESIS acquired two 737-800s (TBA; leased to AVELO).

URBANX AIR (GlobalX) and EVE announced plan to launch UAM operations in South Florida starting in 2026. GlobalX previously signed LOI to order 200 eVTOLs from Eve with delivery of first 10 expected in 2026 (SPNWS; March 18, 2022)

LONDON HEATHROW handled 6.12m pax in November, up 10.2% vs Nov 2022.