Airlines & Lessors

After an intensive evaluation process, DHL Express has chosen Austria as its location to launch a new company, which will operate mainly European cargo flights with up to 20 Boeing 757PFs.

In a major first-of-its-kind industry initiative, United Airlines has launched an alliance it calls Eco-Skies that brings together nearly a dozen

Counterintuitive as it may seem with airlines downsizing and furloughing crews, a pilot shortage problem may re-emerge sooner than most think

Data show effects of travel freeze on world’s biggest international airports.

Florida-based ultra-LCC Spirit Airlines has resumed its growth track and expects to be one of the first US carriers to return to profitability if

Frequent flyer programs are no longer about flying frequently.

Some US carriers have seen their loyalty programs in a new light—as collateral to raise billions in loans. United Airlines started it off in June 2020

Africa’s opportunity lies with aviation liberalization.

Oversupply to market has yielded big, young in-service fleets, which means the current lull has, in part, been a self-inflicted wound.

American Airlines remains wary of how leisure demand will trend once the U.S. Labor Day holiday closes out the expected busy summer travel season.

Azul revealed the agreement has now been terminated and the airline has instead hired advisors to explore industry consolidation opportunities in the region.

This is the latest sign that an anticipated leisure demand surge has fully materialized in time for summer 2021.

UAE hybrid carrier flydubai will start recalling furloughed staff in June as it increasingly restores services as the coronavirus pandemic ebbs in some parts of the world.

The start of services by Nigeria’s planned new national carrier has been postponed until the 2022 first quarter, according to the country’s aviation minister.

Nigerian carriers Dana Air and Ibom Air have signed an agreement to begin codesharing on domestic routes.

The latest deal takes the Dublin-based lessor’s MAX portfolio to 121 aircraft.

Garuda needs to reduce its operating fleet to “no more than” 70 aircraft from 140, based on the current recovery trajectory.

Mexico’s MasAir Cargo Airline has signed on to take the first two Airbus A330-300 converted passenger-to-freighters (P2Fs) from lessor CDB Aviation’s portfolio.

WestJet has extended the temporary suspension of its service to markets in Mexico and the Caribbean until June 4.

To be sure, commercial aircraft delivery funding fell off a proverbial cliff last year. Guess again if that means much for the future.

Deal expected to lay out aftermarket policies for Rolls customers, service providers.

American Airlines and United Airlines are to increase service to Spain after the European country’s government confirmed that borders would reopen from June 7 to travelers who have been fully vaccinated.

Speaking at an online interview May 24 at the virtual version of the Arabian Travel Market exhibition in Dubai, Clark said he still had little visibility on either the performance of the 777X—of which Emirates has 126 on order—or when the carrier might start to receive them.

Indian airline IndiGo has announced an order for 620 CFM International LEAP-1A engines—a move that reinforces the LCC’s intention to take delivery of all of its massive orderbook of Airbus narrowbodies.

The Ryanair Boeing 737-800 with about 170 passengers was on a scheduled flight from Athens Airport in Greece to Vilnius Airport in Lithuania when it was intercepted by a MiG-29 fighter jet that escorted it to Minsk, the capital of Belarus, where it was forced to land.