Etihad Airways is effectively to become a standalone company after a major reorganization proposal that will see most of its subsidiaries passed to a state-owned holding entity.
As construction of a new airport for Sudan´s capital Khartoum continues, one of its expected airline operators is looking to benefit from the project’s geographical position in Northeastern Africa.
Lawmakers from two key U.S. House committees sent a joint letter to the heads of the country’s four largest airlines urging them to foot the bill for crewmembers to participate in self-defense training led by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA).
Ryanair is bracing for a significantly larger fiscal 2022 net loss, citing new omicron variant-related travel restrictions and weaker bookings, and warned it has already cut January 2022 capacity by a third.
The European Commission (EC) has approved €2.55 billion ($2.88 billion) of financial aid the Portuguese government is offering to help TAP Portugal and its parent group return to viability, but the carrier must concede up to 18 slots at Lisbon airport per day to a competitor.
Regional aircraft lessor Nordic Aviation Capital (NAC) has agreed to restructure under U.S. Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, in a move that will see it emerge from the process majority-owned by its largest creditors.
U.S. carriers are planning for the winter holidays to be the busiest travel period since the start of the pandemic, a sign that initial fears of a broader slowdown triggered by the omicron coronavirus variant may have been overblown.
Low-cost, long-haul startup Norse Atlantic Airways (Norse) has taken delivery in Oslo of its first Boeing 787-9, as it prepares to launch services in spring 2022.
The trade body representing UK-registered airlines has again called on the country’s government for financial assistance, as repercussions from the omicron coronavirus variant choke off demand for flights.
India’s competition oversight agency has approved the government’s sale of Air India to the Tata Group, representing an important step in completing the acquisition process.
Southwest Airlines plans to grow its fleet by about 85 aircraft in 2022, but its order-book flexibility and plethora of older aircraft it could park gives it flexibility to increase or decrease the figure based on market conditions, company executives said.
Qatar Airways has moved to suing Airbus in front of the Technology and Construction division of the High Court in London in the ongoing dispute over the surface degradation on a large number of the airline’s A350s.
