Airlines & Lessors

The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is investigating whether British Airways (BA), its regional subsidiary BA CityFlyer and Ireland-based ULCC Ryanair have broken consumer law by failing to offer refunds for flights customers could not legally take.

Recent moves to relax some of Hong Kong's strict travel rules have certainly helped the airline but this is still not enough to provide the scale of recovery the carrier desperately needs.

The expansion will give the U.S. LCC a presence at all three of South Florida’s major airports for the first time.

The move bolsters the Irish ULCC’s position in the country, where it has surpassed flag-carrier Alitalia to offer the most intra-European flights from Italy.

Cătălin Radu Prunariu has been appointed to take over the role from Mihăiţă Ur-su, who had been appointed CEO in June 2020.

Aiming to meet its long-term expansion plans, Spring Airlines is looking to buy nine Airbus A320s and a flight simulator.

How the airline is coping with fleet management and MRO coming out of the pandemic.

Among the items on a daunting list—engine development, regulatory approvals, and probably aggressive Boom fundraising along the way.

Aviation Horizons has acquired a Boeing 737-400SF converted freighter and plans to bring two more into its fleet; Emirates SkyCargo is increasing its temperature-sensitive pharma and vaccine-handling capabilities in Dubai.

The move comes as the airline cites improving revenue trends and a strong domestic travel recovery in the U.S.

Airlines on the continent are staying fleet of foot and adjusting capacity accordingly as vaccine programs progress at varying rates.

Air Montenegro plans to start scheduled services June 10, less than six months after the demise of its predecessor, Montenegro Airlines.

After examining a range of scenarios, the airline decided it is better to receive the aircraft now rather than deferring them, IndiGo CEO Ronojoy Dutta said during IndiGo’s latest results presentation.

The loan was initially offered to Cathay Pacific in 2020 to support the airline at the peak of the coronavirus crisis.

Indebted Hong Kong Airlines is reportedly planning to ground all of its Airbus A320s for a year and focus its energy on air cargo, which is seeing higher demand.

The move comes as a result of the Competition and Market Authority’s (CMA) investigation into a joint business agreement that involves Oneworld alliance members American Airlines, British Airways, Iberia, Aer Lingus and Finnair.

Six airline CEOs have called on the UK and U.S. governments to set an example to the rest of the world by opening a travel corridor that would prove

Latvian carrier airBaltic has become the latest EU airline to offer a bundled holiday product, following similar pushes by UK LCC easyJet and British Airways (BA).

U.S. lessor SKY Leasing has closed a $663 million note offering, generating funds to acquire a portfolio of 16 Airbus and Boeing aircraft which includes 10 A321neos.

Airlines based in the EU and ASEAN are set to gain air rights to operate more services between the blocs after negotiations seven years in the making came to fruition.

With large carriers focused on rebuilding their networks, Breeze sees opportunity to fill in some blanks.

U.S. antitrust regulators have completed their look at the proposed combination of lessors AerCap and GECAS seemingly without objection.

For a European tourist hotspot, major LCC activity to Croatia was relatively small or non-existent, even before the pandemic hit.

Pent-up demand coupled with high vaccination rates will spur companies to send employees back on the road.

African carriers lost $10.21 billion in revenue in 2020 and are set to take a further $8.35 billion hit in 2021, with widespread vaccine rollout not expected until 2023.