Airlines & Lessors

Post-privatization, SATA President and CEO Luis Rodrigues believes Azores Airlines can double the size of its fleet.

The planned merger between Colombian carriers Avianca and Viva Air has been rejected by the country’s civil aviation authority Aerocivil.

The Cathay Group announced that Ronald Lam will take over as Cathay Pacific CEO as of Jan. 1, 2023.

Shifting marketplace dynamics and a shortage of pilots have rendered proposed contracts obsolete in a matter of months.

Pilot union leaders at Delta Air Lines have urged the company to offer up an industry-leading contract proposal and reaffirmed their commitment to pursue self-help actions, up to and including a strike, if management continues to stall.

Delta Air Lines has revamped its employee wellness program to help ensure its people are prepared to care for their customers.

Air France-KLM said it would repay €1 billion ($998 million) of the €3.5 billion outstanding on the French state-backed loan that helped it through the coronavirus pandemic.

U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg wants airlines to give FAA more advance notice when adding capacity or starting new service in crowded markets.

Before the pandemic, seven of the world’s top 10 international routes were within Asia-Pacific—fast forward three years and there are only two.

The resumption comes after Yugoslavia’s JAT Airways performed its last flight to Beijing in October 2000.

The only Chinese airline to operate the A380 has stopped operating the mega-transport after 11 years.

The long-awaited wave of European airline consolidation could finally be arriving.

The airline has purchased SAF from Finnish fuel provider Neste for the operation of 40 flights between the two airports over a three-month period.

In response to an increasingly dire financial state, the board of directors of fledgling Norwegian LCC Flyr will hold an extraordinary general meeting Nov. 10 to approve issuing shares to keep the airline in business.

Sweden’s capital Stockholm will join the LCC’s network from next March.

While Asia-Pacific airlines need China to reopen in order to reach full recovery, there are also plenty of other priorities to address in the interim, industry experts say.

As Europe looks to introduce mandates requiring airlines to use sustainable aviation fuel, Asia does not have the infrastructure in place, AirAsia Group's chief sustainability officer says.

Prior to the pandemic, SIA looked to India and Thailand to add a "domestic" element to its business.

The lessor noted strong demand in its third-quarter results.

Allegiant Air said it plans to receive only three Boeing 737 MAX deliveries in 2023, down from a previously-planned eight, marking the latest U.S. carrier to slash near-term delivery outlooks amid persistent supply chain woes at the OEMs.

The last Latin airline to declare bankruptcy during the coronavirus pandemic, LATAM Airlines Group, has officially emerged from bankruptcy protection.

The two largest ULCCs in the U.S.—Spirit and Frontier—are working furiously to increase their aircraft utilization to pre-pandemic levels in order to drive down costs.

Andrés Manuel López Obrado said Mexico’s airlines charge too high fares while serving too few cities in the country.

The flag carrier reported record-high half-year and quarterly operating profit in its results to Sept. 30.

VietJet is preparing to dramatically expand its widebody fleet by the end of this year and plans to use them to launch flights to new destinations including Australia.