Airlines & Lessors

By Bill Carey
The NTSB has located the wreckage of the DHC-3 Turbine Otter seaplane that crashed in the Puget Sound off Whidbey Island, Washington.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Ben Goldstein
Is Scott Kirby’s threat a sincere ultimatum or a fait accompli?
Airlines & Lessors

By Carole Rickard Hedden
Eve Holding helped push the AAM Stock Composite up by 2% for the five market trading days ending Sept. 12 when compared to the previous five-day period.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Garrett Reim
The company wants to certify its technology for continuous autopilot engagement through all phases of the Cessna 208’s operations, including taxi, takeoff, cruise, landing, braking and rollout.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Victoria Moores
A New York bankruptcy court has approved Scandinavian Airlines’ (SAS) $700 million debtor-in-possession financing, which is being provided by U.S.-headquartered Apollo Global Management.
Airlines & Lessors

By Victoria Moores
Romanian LCC Blue Air has postponed its relaunch by a month to Oct. 10, citing cashflow issues, after the airline was forced to halt operations on Sept. 6.
Airlines & Lessors

By Jens Flottau, Helen Massy-Beresford
Lufthansa said it has agreed a pay deal with Lufthansa mainline and Lufthansa Cargo pilots which rules out more strikes until the end of June 2023.
Airlines & Lessors

By Chen Chuanren
Already operating a 737-800F in Thailand, the new additions make more operational sense as AirAsia Group is already operating more than 200 Airbus A320 family aircraft in the region.
Airlines & Lessors

By Jens Flottau
Europe, or any other region for that matter, has overcome the depths of the COVID-19 pandemic with relatively few airline failures.
Airlines & Lessors

By Helen Massy-Beresford
Carriers are finding new ways to encourage passengers to pay for flexibility and a smooth journey.
Interiors & Connectivity

By Alan Dron
The LCC has been in the country’s business rescue procedure, roughly akin to Chapter 11 proceedings, since August 2021.
Airlines & Lessors

By Lori Ranson
Colombian startup Ultra Air plans to nearly double the aircraft in its fleet in 2023 and add eight aircraft annually to its operations during the next three years, CEO William Shaw said.
Airlines & Lessors

By Adrian Schofield
Australasia’s widebody fleet has been slow to rebound from the COVID-19 pandemic, and reduced aircraft numbers are constraining airlines’ ability to meet surging international demand.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Alan Dron
Air Lease Corporation is to place up to four new Airbus A321XLRs with the Canadian leisure carrier.
Airlines & Lessors

By Kurt Hofmann
Kazakhstan’s Qazaq Air is in the market for regional jets and small narrowbodies to augment its turboprop fleet.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
Our roundup of the main aerospace and defense stories making the news this week.
Aerospace

By Ben Goldstein
Higher levels of pay risk making a large portion of existing 50-seat regional jet operations unprofitable.
Airlines & Lessors

By Sean Broderick
United took a conservative approach to retiring grounded aircraft during the downturn. That move paid off, but also has the carrier eyeing replacements.
Air Transport

By Graham Warwick
United Airlines has become the latest advanced-air-mobility customer to place bets on electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing air taxis.
Airlines & Lessors

By Alan Dron
Qatar activated the processes for operation of its own Flight Information Region (FIR) Sept. 8, in the first major change in decades to air traffic control (ATC) arrangements in the Gulf.
Airlines & Lessors

By Alan Dron
ULCC Ryanair plans to shut its base in Brussels in protest of the city’s airport increasing charges, as well as environmental taxes.
Airlines & Lessors

By Helen Massy-Beresford
While the air cargo industry is returning to more normal levels—after an array of pandemic-related factors led to a period of elevated demand and limited supply—the sector, much like the air passenger business, still faces multiple hurdles in the months ahead.
Airlines & Lessors

By Alan Dron
Hungarian startup Aeroexpress Regional has launched services to a series of cities in Hungary and neighboring Romania.
Airlines & Lessors

By Kurt Hofmann
Turkish Airlines’ chairman says he would take up to 70 more new-generation aircraft for the carrier's fleet for 2023 if they were available now.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Thierry Dubois
Thales is finding customers that are taking up more technology features of its Avant Up inflight entertainment system.
Connectivity