Airlines & Lessors

By Aaron Karp
Frontier, which operates 14 nonstop routes from SJU, expects to base as many as 90 pilots and 200 flight attendants at the airport within a year of its opening.
Airports & Networks

By Adrian Schofield
Virgin Australia has entered a new partnership with turboprop operator Link Airways that will allow Virgin to expand its domestic regional network.
Airports & Networks

By David Casey
LCC AirAsia is planning further growth in the Indian market following Malaysia’s decision to relax visa-entry requirements for Indian nationals.
Airports & Networks

By Adrian Schofield
Indian LCC Akasa Air announced an order for 150 Boeing 737 MAXs, further inflating the massive backlog of narrowbodies set to be delivered to Indian carriers.
Airlines & Lessors

By Karen Walker, Christine Boynton, David Casey, Aaron Karp
Listen in as editors analyze how the Alaska Airlines 737 MAX 9 door plug incident has affected airlines globally—and what this means for Boeing.
Window Seat Podcast

By Christine Boynton
Southwest entered the winter season using a new playbook it developed following December 2022’s operational disruption.
Airlines & Lessors

By Lori Ranson
With limited government financial support, some of Brazil's airlines exited the pandemic period with balance sheets stretched to a much greater degree.
Airlines & Lessors

By Sean Broderick
Neither the FAA nor Boeing will discuss the process or speculate on how long the inspection review will take.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Thierry Dubois
The pilots had poorly coordinated and acted in antagonist ways on the controls, a situation also known as dual input, the investigation concluded.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Alan Dron
British Airways plans to “densify” seating on the Embraer E190 fleet of one of its short-haul subsidiaries, BA CityFlyer.
Airlines & Lessors

By Helen Massy-Beresford
Norsk e-Fuel is a company planning to establish what could be the world’s first large-scale production facility for electrofuel (e-Fuel).
Airlines & Lessors

By Kurt Hofmann
SATA Air Açores Group aims to complete its fleet rollover to an all A320neo family fleet in 2025.
Airlines & Lessors

By Linda Blachly
ICAO’s third Conference on Aviation and Alternative Fuels reached an agreement to reduce CO2 emissions in international aviation by 5% by 2030.
Sustainability

By Chen Chuanren
Backed by renewed travel sentiments and open borders, HSBC analysts are optimistic that Chinese carriers are on track for a “record profit” in 2024.
Airlines & Lessors

By Adrian Schofield
Mitsuko Tottori has been promoted to become Japan Airlines Group's first woman president.
Airlines & Lessors

By Alan Dron
Eight years after it became the first airline in the world to put the Airbus A220 into service, Swiss is making full use of the type’s versatility.
Small Narrowbody Jets

By Adrian Schofield
The Qantas Group is expanding its use of Embraer regional jets on thinner international routes, with a new flight from Darwin, Australia, to Singapore.
Airlines & Lessors

By Sean Broderick
The review led by retired U.S. Navy Admiral Kirk Donald will examine Boeing’s commercial airplane quality management as well as its supplier quality oversight.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Christine Boynton
The Jan. 16 ruling leaves the door open for the defendant airlines “to take another run at a merger at any time.”
Airlines & Lessors

By William Moore
This week's analysis delves into the world of small airlines with fleets of less than 50.
Airlines & Lessors

By Victoria Moores
Spanish carrier Iberia has put forward a proposal to spin-off its ground handling activities into a new company, resulting in 1,727 voluntary redundancies.
Airlines & Lessors

By Graham Warwick
The Hawai’i Seaglider Initiative has been launched to advocate for the adoption of electric wing-in-ground-effect vehicles.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Thierry Dubois
T&E’s calculations show air transport’s emissions in France could be cut 4.5%, up from barely 1%, if the duration threshold was increased to 5 hr.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Helen Massy-Beresford
Repairs to two of the operator’s Airbus A321 freighter aircraft which were found to have cracks in the rear floor structure should be completed within days.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Helen Massy-Beresford
The two parties said the strategic arrangement launched in April 2023 had not been able to reach its full potential because of regulatory constraints.
Airlines & Lessors