Air Transport

AIR LEASE CORPORATION named SAS, ITA Airways and TAP Air Portugal as possible takeover candidates in Europe.

AKASA AIR, India took delivery of new 737-8 (43924) and now has eight; aircraft was originally due for Eastar Jet.

AIR SERBIA plans May 17 to begin twice-weekly Belgrade-Chicago O'Hare (A330).

AZUL reached agreement with Amazon to carry packages on its pax flights for deliveries in north region of Brazil.

COPA had $115.9m net income on $809m revenues in 3Q22 vs $104m on $708m in pre-pandemic 3Q19. It took delivery of one 737-9 and ended quarter with 95

ITA AIRWAYS plans in 2023 to begin Rome Fiumicino-San Francisco/-Washington IAD/-Rio de Janeiro (A330/A350).

IBOM AIR, Nigeria agreed to wet-lease two A320-200s (2584/4273) with CFM56s from GetJet Airlines.

BRITISH AIRWAYS plans June 5 to begin five-times-weekly London Heathrow-Cincinnati, its 27th US destination (787).

ALLEGIANT AIR took delivery of another two ex-Alaska A320-200s (6965/7063) on lease from ALC.

GX AIRLINES, China leased ex-Juneyao A320-200 (4276) with CFM56s from Dragon Aviation Leasing.

WIZZ AIR signed MOU with Austria's OMV to purchase up to 185,000 tonnes of SAF in 2023-2030.

THAI AIRWAYS INTL plans to sell its six 777-200ERs (34586/34587/34588/34589/34590/34591) and issued EOI.

ALEUTIAN AIRWAYS took delivery of second Saab 2000 (046) from Jetstream Aviation Capital under multi-aircraft deal.

ARAJET began twice-weekly Santo Domingo-Kingston, Jamaica (737-8).

JETBLUE plans in summer 2023 to begin JFK-Paris CDG (A321LR); it later plans to add Boston-Paris.

AIR FRANCE-KLM launched €300m bond offering (convertible into new shares and/or exchangeable for existing shares) to repay bonds held by French State

IDEAWORKSCOMPANY estimates airline ancillary revenues at $102.8b in 2022 vs $65.8b in 2021 vs $109.5b in 2019.

ALLEGIANT plans February 15 to begin Nashville-Provo, UT/-Akron, OH (A320).

AZUL, Brazil ordered three more A330-900s to increase its A330neo fleet to eight. It also has four A350-900s.

TITAN AIRWAYS, UK acquired ex-Arkia A321neo (8830) with LEAPs as 757 replacement; it now has three A321neos.

A digital registry underpinning a global book-and-claim system for sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) is expected to go live in mid-2023.

Post-Brexit, the UK CAA continues to adapt to its post-Brexit status outside EASA.

Strong demand and a favorable non-fuel unit cost performance resulted in Copa Holdings posting an industry leading operating margin for the third quarter (Q3) and delivering a quarterly net income that surpassed its pre-pandemic performance.

Delta’s pilot union leadership has described the latest round of negotiations as “a highly uncharacteristic week of making meaningful progress at the table,” marking a sharp shift in tone from previous public statements.

Start-up hypersonic aircraft developer Hermeus has demonstrated mode transition of the company’s in-house designed Chimera turbine-based combined-cycle engine.