Airlines & Lessors

The war of words between JetBlue Airways and Spirit Airlines is heating up ahead of a critical shareholder vote on whether to merge Spirit with Frontier Airlines.

The CEO of Colombian ULCC Viva Air believes more merger activity could emerge in Latin America once the formation of the Abra group is finalized.

Ethiopian Airlines has confirmed an order for five additional Boeing 777 freighters.

The national carrier of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan has set a vision to be the airline of choice connecting Jordan and the Levant with the world

Can Norse Atlantic make a success of the low-cost transatlantic business model? Ahead of Norse's inaugural flight in June, CEO Bjørn Tore Larsen tells Routes Editor-in-Chief David Casey how the airline plans to succeed where others have failed.

Turkey’s SunExpress, a joint venture of Lufthansa and Turkish Airlines, is increasing capacity by eight additional aircraft.

Pilots at Alaska Airlines have voted overwhelmingly to authorize a strike, as contract negotiations with management fail to make meaningful progress.

SAF and new-generation, more fuel-efficient aircraft will be the main levers in achieving the aviation industry’s goal of reaching net zero emissions by 2050, American Airlines' head of ESG says.

Delta Air Lines broke ranks with its peers when it announced plans to become the first U.S. carrier to begin paying flight attendants during the passenger boarding process.

A merger of U.S. ULCCs Frontier Airlines and Spirit Airlines would create more low fares for more people to more places, while a merger of Spirit and JetBlue Airlines would create the opposite, Frontier President and CEO Barry Biffle said.

The 3X-weekly route was due to start in September but will not go ahead as previously proposed.

Saudi LCC flyadeal is considering an order for up to 50 new narrowbodies as it continues to grow.

Inmarsat and Deutsche Telekom have formed a partnership with offshore communications specialist Tampnet that will improve European Aviation Network (EAN) inflight connectivity on high-density Northern European routes.

Lufthansa Group is in the running for a stake in ITA Airways after confirming it made a bid in conjunction with shipping group MSC.

Dutch eco-lobby group Fossielvrij NL is threatening to take KLM to court, after publicly challenging the Dutch carrier’s sustainability advertising as “dangerous deception” during an Air France-KLM shareholders’ meeting in Paris.

The Singapore military has contracted Airbus to deliver its new batch of H225M helicopters from France, ferried on the company’s BelugaST transporter.

Thai AirAsia is planning to raise THB2 billion ($58 million) via debentures to institutional investors and “high net worth individuals” in a bid to stabilize the airline’s balance sheets.

In much of the world, certainly in Europe and North America, life is looking pretty normal. Live concerts and sports events are back and selling out

Australia’s Jetstar Airways is preparing to receive its first Airbus A321LR, which will also mark the start of A320neo-family deliveries for the airline.

Spirit Airlines CEO Ted Christie is reiterating his firm opposition to the hostile takeover effort initiated by JetBlue Airways, describing it as a “cynical” attempt to disrupt Spirit’s planned merger with Frontier Airlines.

The airline is one of two carriers poised to enter the Indian market over the coming months alongside Akasa Air.

UK LCC easyJet is already seeing summer 2022 yields rise above 2019 levels, partly driven by the yield-management of ancillary revenues.

Kamchatka Airlines, an aviation startup from Russia’s Far East, has stopped operations due to the lack of Western-made aircraft.

High-profile leadership moves by Indian carriers highlight the fact that the country’s airline industry is entering a new phase.

The airline group will issue 1.93 million new shares and said it intends to “free itself” from the European conditions that govern the state aid it was awarded earlier on in the pandemic.