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By Ben Goldstein
What happens next depends on a combination of Frontier’s reaction—whether it makes a counteroffer—and how the Spirit board of directors judges the tradeoffs between a relatively safer merger with Frontier, and the prospect of a perhaps more ambitious future with JetBlue.
Airlines & Lessors

By Lori Ranson
JetBlue Airways believes its proposed acquisition of, and merger with, Spirit Airlines will allow the combined entity to create a compelling order book during the next few years in an increasingly tight narrowbody market.
Airlines & Lessors

By Garrett Reim
Universal Hydrogen plans to flight test its 1-megawatt, hydrogen fuel-cell propulsion system on a De Havilland Canada Dash 8-300 regional aircraft starting around September.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Victoria Moores
Kenya Airways and SAA plan to leverage their respective Nairobi and Johannesburg home hubs, with ambitions of co-starting a pan-African airline group by 2023.
Airlines & Lessors

By Victoria Moores
The managing director of Manchester Airport (MAN) has stepped down amid severe operational disruption at the UK airport, including lengthy queues caused by staff shortages and stronger passenger demand.
Airports & Networks

By Victoria Moores
UK long-haul carrier Virgin Atlantic is expecting to significantly narrow its losses in 2022 and return to profitability in 2023, after posting a £594 million ($778.7 million) pre-tax loss for 2021.
Airlines & Lessors

By Kurt Hofmann
In conversation with Aviation Daily, Iceland’s newest start-up airlines Niceair and PLAY detail their latest activities and plans to reach profitability in 2023.
Airlines & Lessors

By Helen Massy-Beresford
Airlines are expecting travel demand to keep growing despite the effects of higher jet fuel costs feeding through into ticket price increases, IATA said.
Airlines & Lessors

By Adrian Schofield
Malaysian LCC AirAsia X has revealed the next stage of its network restoration, which will also help the airline return more of its fleet to service.
Airlines & Lessors

By Ben Goldstein
JetBlue's offer complicates plans by Frontier Airlines to merge with Spirit before the end of 2022.
Airlines & Lessors

By Ben Goldstein
The Transportation Security Administration’s proposed baseline budget for fiscal 2023 would increase agency funding by nearly 16%, with a large chunk of the new money going toward greater pay and benefits for the agency’s nearly 50,000 employees.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Lori Ranson
The FAA has dedicated a new air traffic control (ATC) tower at Charlotte Douglas International Airport (CLT) that recently replaced the previous tower commissioned in 1979.
Airports & Networks

By Thierry Dubois
Modifications made to an Airbus C295 are opening the door to new gains in fuel efficiency.
Emerging Technologies

By Graham Warwick
Germany’s government has confirmed it is funding a project to modify a Dornier 328 regional turboprop into a flying testbed for zero-emission hydrogen-electric propulsion.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Kurt Hofmann, Helen Massy-Beresford
The airline said it had to cancel 2,000 flights in March because of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and related airspace closures.
Airlines & Lessors

By Victoria Moores
UK carriers British Airways and easyJet faced further schedule disruption April 5 because of high staff sickness rates, driven by a national surge in COVID-19 cases.
Airlines & Lessors

By Helen Massy-Beresford
Air France-KLM’s board of directors has chosen to enter into exclusive negotiations with CFM International for the acquisition of Leap-1A engines to power its new fleet of Airbus A320neo and A321neo aircraft.
Airlines & Lessors

By Chen Chuanren
The start-up cargo carrier is looking to pivot to passenger charters for Hajj and Umrah pilgrimage flights in the third quarter of 2022.
Airlines & Lessors

By Lori Ranson
Air Canada is enthusiastic about adding the Airbus A321XLR to its fleet, citing an array of advantages the new long-haul narrowbody jet will offer the airline as it emerges from the pandemic.
Airlines & Lessors

By Victoria Moores
Scandinavian LCC Norwegian and Lufthansa Group subsidiary Swiss have become the latest European carriers to relax their COVID-19 face mask wearing requirements.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Victoria Moores
Oneworld carrier Finnair has committed to halving its 2019 carbon emissions by the end of 2025 and reaching carbon neutrality by no later than the end of 2045.
Airlines & Lessors

By Victoria Moores
New Italian flag carrier ITA Airways has signed an aircraft lease agreement with Irish lessor AerCap, covering 10 Airbus A320neos and two A330neos.
Airlines & Lessors

By Aaron Karp
Air Canada will commence all-cargo transatlantic flights in May, connecting Toronto (YYZ) to four European cities.
Airports & Networks

By Graham Warwick
Hydrogen-electric propulsion startup ZeroAvia has partnered with zero-emission vehicle refueling company ZEV Station to develop a hydrogen refueling infrastructure for airports in California.
Emerging Technologies

By Ben Goldstein
Seattle-based Alaska Airlines canceled more than 120 flights across its network on April 1, as pilots gathered to picket flights at airports in five cities to protest stalled contract negotiations.
Airlines & Lessors