Airlines & Lessors

By Alan Dron
The suspension will take effect starting March 17 and will initially run to April 30.
Airlines & Lessors

By Chen Chuanren
Taiwan’s Mainland Affairs Council said it will reinstate scheduled flights between the island and 10 other mainland Chinese cities as an act of goodwill.
Airlines & Lessors

By Adrian Schofield
All Nippon Airways (ANA) has revealed new details about the launch and product offering of its proposed subsidiary carrier AirJapan.
Airlines & Lessors

By Kurt Hofmann
The final decision on the sale of Azores Airlines is expected in September or October, but CEO Luis Rodrigues will not be around to see it.
Airlines & Lessors

By Daniel Williams
China was the last large market to remove COVID restrictions, and it is anticipated that the international travel shall continue to rebound.
Air Transport

By Christine Boynton, Lori Ranson
After the Justice Department lawsuit, JetBlue’s strategy is in the hands of the courts.
Airlines & Lessors

By David Casey, Aaron Karp, Victoria Moores
Aviation Week editors discuss the highly lucrative market between Europe and North America, where demand for flights has returned stronger than ever.
Air Transport

By Christine Boynton, Lori Ranson
The “industry-leading” contract increases attention on the other U.S. “Big Four” as negotiations with their pilots continue.
Airlines & Lessors

By Christine Boynton
American Airlines CEO Robert Isom calls the deal “a game changer for our pilots.”
Airlines & Lessors

Capt. Jason Ambrosi (ALPA), Capt. Otjan de Bruijn (ECA), and Capt. Jack Netskar (IFALPA)
Some in the airline industry want to remove pilots from the flight deck, increasing risk to the public and placing the safest mode of transportation in jeopardy
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Alan Dron
Iceland-based ULCC Play is predicting a successful year after external factors knocked its performance off-course in 2022, the airline’s CEO said March 7.
Airlines & Lessors

By Adrian Schofield
Cathay Pacific is confident its hiring efforts are sufficient to support the airline’s plans to fully recover its pre-pandemic capacity levels.
Airlines & Lessors

By Victoria Moores
The airline plans to buy over 400,000 carbon credits from lessor SMBC Aviation Capital, making the Dallas-based carrier the launch customer for the program.
Airlines & Lessors

By Aaron Karp
Start-up carrier Northern Pacific had previously planned one-stop transpacific service and U.S.-Mexico trans-border flights.
Airports & Networks

By Alan Dron
London Heathrow has expressed its displeasure at the UK Civil Aviation Authority’s final determination on charges the airport can impose on airlines.
Airports & Networks

By Kurt Hofmann
SWISS’s hub-and-spoke system in Zurich plans to operate at 85% of pre-pandemic capacity levels in 2023.
Airlines & Lessors

By Jens Flottau
Despite rising interest rates and major uncertainty in terms of geopolitics and aircraft supply, lessor executives at ISTAT Americas were full of optimism.
Airlines & Lessors

By Aaron Karp
Paris Charles de Gaulle becomes the third European airport in JetBlue's network.
Airports & Networks

By Jens Flottau
A significant portion of the in-service fleet is coming up for retirement and feedstock for passenger-to-freighter (P2F) conversions is becoming scarce.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Lori Ranson
JetBlue finds itself in an unprecedented position—its plans for both the Spirit merger and its alliance with American Airlines remain entangled in litigation.
Airlines & Lessors

By Victoria Moores
Latvian carrier airBaltic is bringing on four wet-leased Airbus A320s in summer 2023
Airlines & Lessors

By Kurt Hofmann
The layoffs came after a number of irregularities at TAP.
Airlines & Lessors

By Kurt Hofmann
Established in 1954, government-owned Kuwait Airways operates a fleet of 34 aircraft, making it one of the region’s smallest carriers.
Airlines & Lessors

Aviation Week Network staff
Russia’s Aeroflot Group has found a local partner to provide feeder services to its largest regional hub in Krasnoyarsk (KJA), East Siberia.
Airlines & Lessors

LCCs are again growing share in the North Atlantic market.
Airlines & Lessors