Executives at Spirit Airlines reiterated their opposition to the merger proposal from JetBlue Airways and urged shareholders to approve the competing bid from Frontier Airlines at an upcoming shareholder vote.
Eurowings CEO Jens Bischof said the focus on Miles and More resulted from the carrier’s positioning as a value airline for Europe, a step related to its strategy to become a pan-European airline with bases in several countries.
Lufthansa subsidiary Air Dolomiti has become the first Italian airline approved to execute Required Navigation Performance-Authorization Required (RNP-AR) approaches to land in Innsbruck, Austria.
Lufthansa is slowly warming up to the idea of potentially reactivating its Airbus A380 fleet, should strong demand growth be sustained over the next few years.
Air France-KLM reported strong bookings as it posted a narrowed net loss for the first quarter, despite the effects of the omicron variant, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and high fuel prices.
As air transport recovers to normal levels in much of the world, IATA Director General Willie Walsh discusses the issues carriers are now contending with, how the market is changing and the outlook for the industry.
Kenya Airways Group MD and CEO Allan Kilavuka has outlined three phases for his carrier’s strategic cooperation with South African Airways (SAA), spanning the period to the end of 2023.
Korean Air managed to post impressive profits in the 2022 first quarter (Q1), with freight operations again a major factor and passenger services starting to make more gains as well.
Canadian regional aviation specialist Chorus Aviation has completed its acquisition of UK-headquartered lessor Falko Regional Aircraft, triggering investment firm Brookfield Asset Management to take a 12.5% stake in Chorus, as planned.
All Nippon Airways (ANA) is not operating its services to London and Paris because of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and subsequent airspace restrictions.
Latvian flag-carrier airBaltic plans to wet-lease a Boeing 737-900ER from Ukraine International Airlines (UIA), at the same time the company is wet-leasing some of its own fleet of Airbus A220s to other airlines.
U.S. airlines are unified in recognizing the need to get more pilot candidates in the pipeline but are grappling with training-process bottlenecks as they work to grow their near-term pool of qualified line pilots.
Romanian carrier Tarom has received the go-ahead for a €1.9 million ($2 million) capital injection to compensate for losses incurred during the COVID-19 pandemic.
While airlines are reporting a strong demand environment going into the northern hemisphere summer, the full restoration of global airline networks is likely years away, IATA DG Willie Walsh told Aviation Week Network editors.
VietJet achieved robust profit growth in the 2022 first quarter, thanks to the airline’s restored domestic flights and the start of more international services.
Dublin-based lessor Avolon said it had recognized an impairment of $304 million against its exposure to the Russian market during the first quarter, reducing the carrying value of its 10 owned aircraft in the country to zero.
