Airlines & Lessors

Southwest Airlines does not expect to receive any 737-7s in 2022, the airline says, raising the possibility that the variant may not be certified before a year-end law that affects its flight deck design.

The airline will only take delivery of 66 Boeing 737 MAX narrowbodies instead of the 114 it originally planned to add to its fleet.

Spirit Airlines agreed to be acquired by JetBlue Airways in an all-cash deal valued at $3.8 billion, a move that comes one day after its shareholders formally rejected a competing offer from Frontier Airlines.

Etihad Airways anticipates the current surge in business increasing through the second half of 2022, the airline said July 28.

Frontier Airlines has forged a new agreement with ATP Flight School for cadet training to maintain its pilot rosters for the foreseeable future.

International Airlines Group (IAG) is ordering 25 more Airbus A320neo family aircraft, plus options for an additional 50, while also converting 12 of its existing options into firm orders for A320neos and A321neos.

Due to the flight restrictions imposed by Western countries, Aeroflot group is refocusing on the domestic market.

While VietJet’s reaffirmation of its massive Boeing 737 MAX order was a welcome vote of confidence in the program, it also highlighted that the airline’s ambitious growth agenda has not been dented by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Surging demand for travel has propelled Singapore Airlines (SIA) back to profitability in its fiscal 2022/23 first quarter (Q1), the second highest quarterly profit in its history.

Carriers have been returning more of their A380s to service, although not all will return.

Why are European and UK airport and airline execs fighting about the air travel disruptions that have occurred this year, as people rush to fly again, instead of working together on solutions?

If Spirit and JetBlue do eventually agree on the terms of a transaction, they will still need shareholder approval as well as antitrust approval from the U.S. Justice Department.

Wizz Air CEO József Váradi is planning to use some of the airline’s upcoming Airbus A321neo deliveries as a buffer against operational disruption, limiting second-half capacity growth to 40%.

Across Europe and North America, as pandemic-related travel restrictions lifted, there has been a surge of demand for summer flights.

Hawaiian Airlines is still only operating “a fraction” of its pre-pandemic capacity to Japan.

The number of international passengers carried by airlines in the region increased to 9 million in June.

The Hungarian group’s application for U.S. approval for transatlantic cargo operations has been rejected.

Industrywide constraints have led carriers to pull back flying, with a recovery to pre-pandemic levels delayed to at least 2023.

Executives at Volaris are disappointed that the restoration of Mexico’s safety rating will take longer than expected after the U.S. FAA did not issue an upgrade following its latest audit of Mexico’s civil aviation authority.

Ryanair Group's CEO took aim at Boeing during the airline's fiscal 2023 first quarter results release.

UK-India startup Hans Airways is just a few days away from taking its first aircraft—an Airbus A330—and the carrier’s first route will be between Birmingham in the UK and Amritsar in north India.

UK-based LCC easyJet is reticent to discuss whether it will seek compensation from airports that have applied capacity caps or where it has suffered disruption from staff shortages in summer 2022.

Avolon founding CEO Dómhnal Slattery plans to step down by year-end, 12 years after helping launch what is now the industry’s second-largest lessor by fleet size.

In a sign of the continuing attractiveness of the cargo market, regional aircraft lessor Nordic Aviation Capital (NAC) plans to buy a series of freighter conversion kits for the ATR 72-600 turboprop.

Europe’s flight interruptions during a challenging summer peak season were compounded July 27 as Lufthansa canceled nearly all its flights to and from its Frankfurt and Munich hubs as trade union Verdi sent 20,000 Lufthansa ground workers on a “warning strike."