Airlines & Lessors

By Victoria Moores
Air Baltic CEO Martin Gauss has told ATW he will make a final call on whether to exercise the Latvian carrier’s 10 Bombardier CSeries options and take a CSeries simulator next year.
Aircraft & Propulsion

Air France-KLM, owner of CityJet, is in final talks with Germany-based Intro Group for new ownership of the Irish regional carrier.
Airlines & Lessors

By Victoria Moores
Thai Airways has pushed back its Airbus A380 Bangkok-London Heathrow debut by 11 months, slipping the launch from Dec. 1, 2013 to Oct. 30, 2014.
Airlines & Lessors

By Victoria Moores
UK regional Flybe has appointed Saad Hammad as CEO, splitting the combined role of chairman and CEO, which was previously held by Jim French.
Airlines & Lessors

By Victoria Moores
UK leisure carrier Monarch Airlines will take a pair of new Airbus A321-200s on long-term lease from Air Lease Corp. (ALC).
Airlines & Lessors

By Victoria Moores
LOT Polish Airlines will become an all Boeing 787 long-haul operator from August, replacing its 767 workhorses that have served the airline for years.
Aircraft & Propulsion

Air Berlin is wet leasing an ATR 72-200 from Latvia-based Danu oro transportas owing to difficulties in obtaining crew and pilots, a source from the Air Berlin management told ATW.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Victoria Moores
Ethiopian Airlines has received its latest Boeing 777-200LR, expanding its fleet to six of the type.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Linda Blachly
Air Berlin is wet leasing an ATR 72-200 from Latvia-based Danu oro transportas owing to difficulties in obtaining crew and pilots, a source from the Air Berlin management told ATW.
Aircraft & Propulsion

People
Airlines & Lessors

By Victoria Moores
Air Lituanica has launched operations with an initial Embraer E-170 service between its Vilnius Lithuanian home base and Brussels in Belgium.
Airlines & Lessors

By Victoria Moores
Ryanair deputy CEO and COO Michael Cawley has announced plans to step down from his full-time executive role with the Irish budget carrier at the end of March 2014 to pursue other interests.
Airlines & Lessors

FAA is investigating an incident in which a Spirit Airlines Airbus A319 apparently came within 1.6 miles horizontally and 400 feet vertically of a skydiving aircraft.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Polina Montag-Girmes
Russia’s UTair and Transaero Airlines have signed a partnership agreement to increase the number of transfer passengers between UTair’s domestic and Transaero’s international flights.
Airlines & Lessors

China Eastern Airlines’ wholly owned subsidiary China United Airlines is accelerating its rapid expansion pace as it plans to increase its fleet by 50 aircraft by 2015.
Airlines & Lessors

Airline News
Airlines & Lessors

By Linda Blachly
Jakarta-based Garuda Indonesia has taken delivery of its first Boeing 777-300ER.
Aircraft & Propulsion

From ATW's 2013 World Airline Report
Airlines & Lessors

From the 2013 ATW World Airline Report
Airlines & Lessors

From ATW's 2013 World Airline Report.
Airlines & Lessors

By Victoria Moores
Nepal Airlines has firmed up an order for two Airbus A320s, cementing a memorandum of understanding in April.
Aircraft & Propulsion

Air Canada rouge, the Montreal-based carrier’s new low-cost international subsidiary airline, launched operations Monday with an Airbus A319 flight from Toronto to Kingston, Jamaica.
Airlines & Lessors

Taiwan-based China Airlines is considering either the Airbus A320neo or the Boeing 737 MAX for its future fleet.
Aircraft & Propulsion

Lufthansa relaunched its rebranded subsidiary Germanwings Monday.
Airlines & Lessors

By Victoria Moores
Finnair—which will formally join the transatlantic joint venture (JV) between American Airlines, British Airways and Iberia on Tuesday—is seeking approval to join British Airways and Japan Airlines’ (JAL) Europe-Japan JV.
Airlines & Lessors