Airlines & Lessors

Progress on the region’s decarbonization legislation is highlighting the challenge ahead for airlines.

The ability of U.S. airlines to pass along higher costs for fuel and labor through increased fares may have hit its limit in April.

Norwegian LCC newcomer Flyr is open to potential partnerships with other airlines, including interline agreements and codeshares.

Norwegian regional airline Wideroe is looking to add up to five more De Havilland Canada DHC8-400s by 2023 and is considering another three Embraer E-Jets, although this depends on fuel prices.

UK LCC easyJet has added “Climate Change Transition” as a specific item on its corporate-risk register, highlighting the growing significance of sustainability to airline operations.

Leasing companies are working together to support the global air transport’s collective goal of meeting 2050 net-zero carbon emission goals. The

China’s two largest airlines are not providing a clear roadmap on their future with the Boeing 737 MAX, offering no indications on when the aircraft may return to service, or even if they will take deliveries at all.

Japanese government considers removing more restrictions, which will help international travel recovery.

United Airlines believes that aircraft availability in the short term continues to be a challenge, and that the timing of its substantial narrowbody order in 2021 was extremely favorable for the company.

Thai AirAsia X (TAAX) has become the latest Southeast Asian carrier to file for court-supervised rehabilitation in order to restructure its debts.

EasyJet has set itself an interim carbon emissions target of 35% by 2035.

Scandinavian Airlines (SAS) plans to cut around 4,000 flights from its schedules at the height of the northern hemisphere summer season.

Air France-KLM has begun exclusive discussions with Apollo Global Management over the injection of €500 million ($527 million) of capital into an engine subsidiary, in the airline group’s latest step toward repaying its COVID-19 related state aid.

Filipino LCC Cebu Pacific is planning to launch so-called ‘green routes’ in 2025 as part of its drive to introduce sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) into the airline.

Decarbonization, increasing reliance on narrowbody point-to-point operations, changing yields among the leaders.

American, Delta, United and Southwest are top four in the world.

Major airlines are planning for a recovery in this crucial market, but not necessarily counting on business travel returning to full strength.

Business travelers and corporate travel managers are coming to terms with new factors that are enabling work trips to make a comeback, but which are

Avion Express Partners sees Africa as a future potential wet-lease market that can help mitigate the European seasonality capacity gap. Vilnius

Cultivating a diversity of perspectives is particularly important now, as the aviation industry.

Raising the mandatory U.S. pilot-retirement age above 65 would create unintended consequences that would offset any benefit that comes from increasing the number of eligible pilots, two pilot groups warn.

Sun Country may establish a base outside of its Minneapolis headquarters in the future, but has no immediate plans given the opportunities that exist in its home market.

The board of directors at Spirit Airlines urged shareholders to reject a recently announced tender offer from JetBlue Airways, which it framed as a “cynical attempt” to disrupt its merger plans with Frontier Airlines.

IATA's Rafael Schvartzman warns that EU measures will damage the competitiveness of European carriers if they are adopted in their current form.

LCC easyJet anticipates its leisure and domestic capacity will exceed 2019 levels over the next few months as it prepares for a busy summer season.