Airlines & Lessors

By Christine Boynton
Alaska Airlines continues to monitor Boeing’s production and plans to extend its efforts to the 787 line in North Charleston, South Carolina.
Airlines & Lessors

By Alan Dron
IndiGo will be the recipient of six Boeing 787-9s on long-term lease from Norwegian long-haul LCC Norse Atlantic Airways, according to local media reports.
Airlines & Lessors

By Alan Dron
Ryanair plans to take delivery of “up to 29” new Boeing 737s in 2025—the latest update on arrivals to its fleet.
Airlines & Lessors

By Sean Broderick
A transcript from the CVR pulled from the wreckage of the Jeju Air Boeing 737-800 that crashed Dec. 29 in South Korea should be compiled within a few days.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Kurt Hofmann
Qazaq Air has completed its long-awaited privatization process, paving the way for the airline to expand its fleet with narrowbody jets.
Airlines & Lessors

By Adrian Schofield
India's SpiceJet is aiming to restart deliveries of the Boeing narrowbodies it has on order and is also looking to return more grounded aircraft to service.
Airlines & Lessors

By David Casey
Emirates has started Airbus A350-900 service between Dubai and Edinburgh, with plans to expand the aircraft's deployment to Kuwait and Bahrain starting Jan. 8.
Airports & Networks

By David Casey
Saudi Arabian LCC Flyadeal will begin its first scheduled routes to South Asia in February.
Airports & Networks

By Adrian Schofield
Malaysia Airlines senior executive Ahmad Luqman Mohd Azmi, who is in charge of the group’s airlines, is leaving the company.
Airlines & Lessors

By Chen Chuanren
Vietnam Airlines has begun regular uptake of sustainable aviation fuel on flights departing its European network points.
Airlines & Lessors

By Chen Chuanren
The CAAC has forecast that passenger volume for this year’s spring travel season will reach 90 million people, up from the record 83.5 million set in 2024.
Airlines & Lessors

By Aaron Karp
IndiGo is adding two new domestic destinations—Puducherry (PNY) and Bikaner (BKB)—bringing to 90 the number of Indian airports it serves.
Airlines & Lessors

By Daniel Williams
As a new year begins, Flight Friday looks back to an event that happened one year ago: the Alaska Airlines Boeing 737-9 door plug blowout on Jan. 5, 2024.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Alan Dron
U.K. ACMI and charter operator Ascend Airways is confident that its fleet expansion plans will start to come to fruition in 2025.
Airlines & Lessors

By Alan Dron
The U.S. DOT has penalized two foreign airlines for operating in regions subject to FAA prohibitions while carrying U.S. airline designators.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Chen Chuanren
The Malaysian state of Sarawak is studying the development of a new, larger airport for state capital of Kuching.
Airports & Networks

By Helen Massy-Beresford
Airlines hoping for a 2025 free from the engine and supply chain issues that have plagued the industry in the past years are likely in for a disappointment.
Airlines & Lessors

By Christine Boynton
Florida-based Silver Airways has filed for Chapter 11 protection, expecting to emerge from the process by the first quarter of 2025.
Airlines & Lessors

By Chen Chuanren
Gallop Air has flown its first commercial service, a Comac C909 charter flight between Guangzhou and Brunei operated by China Southern Airlines.
Airlines & Lessors

By Victoria Moores
Kenya Airways’ CEO hopes to grow the airline’s MRO business through a partnership with South African Airways.
MRO

By Chen Chuanren, Jens Flottau
A Boeing 737-800 operated by South Korean carrier Jeju Air collided with a wall after touching down without its landing gear deployed at Muan Airport on Dec. 29.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Jens Flottau
Azerbaijan Airlines and other carriers have suspended flights to several destinations in Russia following the crash of one of the carrier's Embraer 190s.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Chen Chuanren, Jens Flottau
An Azerbaijan Airlines Embraer 190 carrying 62 passengers and five crew crashed while attempting to land at Aktau Airport Kazakhstan on the morning of Dec. 25.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Christine Boynton
A “vendor technology issue” briefly grounded American Airlines flights on Dec. 24, the disruption landing in the middle of a busy holiday travel period.
Airlines & Lessors

By Sean Broderick
The changes will direct pilots to a specific checklist when smoke or fumes are detected in the cockpit following an engine failure.
Safety, Ops & Regulation