Airlines & Lessors

The ongoing bad-tempered dispute between Airbus and Qatar Airways has to be resolved somehow.

The surge in omicron coronavirus variant cases damaged Ryanair Holdings’ yields in December and January, but the Ireland-based airline group managed to reduce its fiscal 2022 third-quarter (Q3) net loss to €96 million ($107 million) from €321 million a year earlier.

Southwest Airlines conceded it will not fully restore pre-pandemic capacity levels in 2022 as planned citing ongoing staffing issues.

Some carriers are beginning to reinstate U.S. and European routes.

Alitalia’s successor ITA Airways has only been flying for three months. Its sale would be a rare step in European airline consolidation.

Completion comes after the Indian government selected Tata Group as the successful bidder for the national carrier in October 2021.

Incremental growth in the London market will be the focus of JetBlue Airways’ nascent transatlantic operation this year, with additional European destinations coming on board no earlier than 2023.

Lufthansa subsidiary Austrian Airlines is increasing its summer 2022 program with additional aircraft capacity and its comeback to the U.S. West Coast.

Currently an all-Boeing 737-700/800 NG operator, AnadoluJet CEO Samil Karakas is looking for new-generation aircraft which are cheaper to operate.

The holding company behind LCC AirAsia has rebranded itself as Capital A Berhad as CEO Tony Fernandes looks beyond air transport operations for growth.

The FAA is working to broaden approvals for aircraft and airports near new 5G transmitters, but several Embraer models remain restricted.

Southwest Airlines expects to return to consistent profits in 2022, but challenges related to staffing and the omicron coronavirus variant will persist for most of the 2022 first quarter (Q1).

Low-cost competition in the Swedish capital is heating up as Norwegian is set to vie with Ryanair and Eurowings for market share from Arlanda.

Alaska Air Group is enduring some short-term cost gains to simplify its fleet as it works to shed Airbus A320s in favor of the Boeing 737 MAX.

JetBlue Airways plans double digit capacity growth in 2022, driven by its northeast alliance (NEA) with American Airlines, which has already generated millions in codeshare revenue for the New York-based carrier.

The number of international passengers carried by Asia-Pacific airlines totaled 16.7 million in 2021, representing just 4.4% of the volumes recorded in 2019 before the pandemic began.

Ahment Bolat, the airline’s chief investment and technology officer, has been appointed to succeed İlker Ayci as Turkish Airlines' board chairman.

Cargo has been a rare bright spot in an intensely dark period for the global air transport industry. E-commerce has surged during the pandemic, making

EasyJet predicted a strong summer as it reported a reduced headline loss for the three months to end-December 2021 but said the emergence of the omicron coronavirus variant had hit its December activities.

China Airlines is acquiring four more Boeing 777 freighters as the Taiwanese airline looks to consolidate its market position amid the ongoing air cargo boom.

Belgrade-based Air Serbia has begun the renewal of its regional fleet with the arrival of the first member of a batch of ATR turboprops.

As Air France-KLM looks toward recovery from the COVID-19 crisis, it does so with changes ahead for its executive team.

Egyptian leisure startup SkyBird Airlines is closing in on the delivery of its first Airbus A320, which it will use to launch charter flights.

Wizz Air predicted the effects of the omicron coronavirus variant on travel would lead to a “slightly higher” operating loss in its fiscal 2022 fourth quarter (Q4), compared to the last three months of 2021, when it recorded an operating loss of €213.6 million ($241 million).

Lithuanian wet-lease and charter operator Jump Air has received its Type A commercial license and is preparing to operate up to four ATR 72s by year-end.