Airlines & Lessors

In conversation with Aviation Daily, Iceland’s newest start-up airlines Niceair and PLAY detail their latest activities and plans to reach profitability in 2023.

Airlines are expecting travel demand to keep growing despite the effects of higher jet fuel costs feeding through into ticket price increases, IATA said.

Malaysian LCC AirAsia X has revealed the next stage of its network restoration, which will also help the airline return more of its fleet to service.

JetBlue's offer complicates plans by Frontier Airlines to merge with Spirit before the end of 2022.

The airline said it had to cancel 2,000 flights in March because of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and related airspace closures.

UK carriers British Airways and easyJet faced further schedule disruption April 5 because of high staff sickness rates, driven by a national surge in COVID-19 cases.

Air France-KLM’s board of directors has chosen to enter into exclusive negotiations with CFM International for the acquisition of Leap-1A engines to power its new fleet of Airbus A320neo and A321neo aircraft.

The start-up cargo carrier is looking to pivot to passenger charters for Hajj and Umrah pilgrimage flights in the third quarter of 2022.

Short-term obstacles and long-term changes were on the agenda at Airlines for Europe’s Brussels summit.

Air Lease Corporation (ALC) announced a firm order for 32 737 MAX aircraft, continuing a streak of positive momentum for Boeing as the OEM looks to reduce its inventory of stored aircraft and eventually raise production rates.

Air Canada is enthusiastic about adding the Airbus A321XLR to its fleet, citing an array of advantages the new long-haul narrowbody jet will offer the airline as it emerges from the pandemic.

Scandinavian LCC Norwegian and Lufthansa Group subsidiary Swiss have become the latest European carriers to relax their COVID-19 face mask wearing requirements.

Oneworld carrier Finnair has committed to halving its 2019 carbon emissions by the end of 2025 and reaching carbon neutrality by no later than the end of 2045.

British Airways and American Airlines must continue to offer four daily airport slots on three UK-U.S. routes to competitors until March 2026.

New Italian flag carrier ITA Airways has signed an aircraft lease agreement with Irish lessor AerCap, covering 10 Airbus A320neos and two A330neos.

Seattle-based Alaska Airlines canceled more than 120 flights across its network on April 1, as pilots gathered to picket flights at airports in five cities to protest stalled contract negotiations.

Doha’s Hamad International (DOH), the country’s international gateway, is hoping the event will generate a longer-term traffic increase.

Two years into the pandemic, European airlines have acclimated to high levels of short-term uncertainty, but as CEOs gathered in Brussels at the Airlines For Europe (A4E) annual summit, it was long-term issues that dominated discussions.

Latvian charter and ACMI specialist SmartLynx Airlines is seeking to spread its peaks of activity by looking outside Europe.

British Airways (BA) is recovering from the latest in a series of IT outages that has plagued the airline in recent years.

Spanish LCC Volotea is seeing a continuation of strong last-minute sales, even though some uncertainties linger that might deter travelers from flying.

A strong, diversified portfolio has helped Vietjet Air remain profitable despite a relatively slow return to full recovery.

Ryanair Group CEO Michael O´Leary said the performance of its Boeing 737-8200s has exceeded his expectations.

Aviation has long seen China as its growth engine in Asia, but some changing fundamentals should be concerning to the industry.

If investigators have insight on why the 737-800 went down during a routine domestic flight, they have not shared it publicly.