Airlines & Lessors

United Airlines believes that aircraft availability in the short term continues to be a challenge, and that the timing of its substantial narrowbody order in 2021 was extremely favorable for the company.

Thai AirAsia X (TAAX) has become the latest Southeast Asian carrier to file for court-supervised rehabilitation in order to restructure its debts.

EasyJet has set itself an interim carbon emissions target of 35% by 2035.

Scandinavian Airlines (SAS) plans to cut around 4,000 flights from its schedules at the height of the northern hemisphere summer season.

Air France-KLM has begun exclusive discussions with Apollo Global Management over the injection of €500 million ($527 million) of capital into an engine subsidiary, in the airline group’s latest step toward repaying its COVID-19 related state aid.

Filipino LCC Cebu Pacific is planning to launch so-called ‘green routes’ in 2025 as part of its drive to introduce sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) into the airline.

Business travelers and corporate travel managers are coming to terms with new factors that are enabling work trips to make a comeback, but which are

Major airlines are planning for a recovery in this crucial market, but not necessarily counting on business travel returning to full strength.

Decarbonization, increasing reliance on narrowbody point-to-point operations, changing yields among the leaders.

Avion Express Partners sees Africa as a future potential wet-lease market that can help mitigate the European seasonality capacity gap. Vilnius

American, Delta, United and Southwest are top four in the world.

Cultivating a diversity of perspectives is particularly important now, as the aviation industry.

Raising the mandatory U.S. pilot-retirement age above 65 would create unintended consequences that would offset any benefit that comes from increasing the number of eligible pilots, two pilot groups warn.

Sun Country may establish a base outside of its Minneapolis headquarters in the future, but has no immediate plans given the opportunities that exist in its home market.

The board of directors at Spirit Airlines urged shareholders to reject a recently announced tender offer from JetBlue Airways, which it framed as a “cynical attempt” to disrupt its merger plans with Frontier Airlines.

IATA's Rafael Schvartzman warns that EU measures will damage the competitiveness of European carriers if they are adopted in their current form.

LCC easyJet anticipates its leisure and domestic capacity will exceed 2019 levels over the next few months as it prepares for a busy summer season.

Turkish Airlines has decided to purchase six A350-900s from Airbus to be delivered in 2022 and 2023.

International Airlines Group has placed an order for 50 Boeing 737 MAX aircraft and secured options for a further 100, providing a boost to the OEM.

The past nearly two and a half years since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic have been quiet on the airline mergers and acquisitions front.

Newly restructured LCC Norwegian is planning to rapidly grow from 70 to 100 aircraft over the coming two years, but CEO Geir Karlsen is confident that old mistakes will not be repeated.

Singapore Airlines is adjusting plans for its ageing Boeing 777-300ER fleet after deliveries of the 777-9 were pushed back until at least 2025 due to certification issues.

This week’s Window Seat Podcast comes from Bergen, Norway, where decision-makers are gathering at Routes Europe to shape future airline networks.

The bidding war for Spirit Airlines has entered a new–and possibly final–phase.

EgyptAir, joining the acceleration among Middle Eastern carriers toward increased cargo capacity, has placed a conversion order for its first Boeing 737-800SF freighter.