Airlines & Lessors

Aspiring Dominican ULCC startup Flycana aims to launch in the 2022 first quarter with five Boeing 737 MAX 8s featuring a new livery and brand.

Accelerating vaccine rollouts should lead to more travel lanes and travel bubbles for vaccinated passengers, the group’s president for airlines said.

Air Canada Rouge’s return to the skies coincides with Canada reopening its borders on Sept. 7 to fully vaccinated foreign citizens for non-essential travel.

Flydubai CEO Gaith Al Ghaith believes continuing the strategy of adding new year-round secondary destinations like the carrier has done in the past remains important.

Low-cost carriers are pursuing big growth ambitions in the Gulf.

After pandemic-related setbacks, MRO in Singapore is growing again, partly thanks to passenger-to-freighter conversions.

The new airline would not be an LCC but would operate Airbus A320 family aircraft and follow BA brand guidelines.

British Airways (BA) plans to acquire sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) from Air BP, giving passengers the option of contributing toward the additional cost.

Avianca’s post-bankruptcy business plan rests on a leaner cost structure and fewer aircraft overall.

U.S. consumer prices jumped more than 5% in the year to July 2021, the highest annual rate in many years. That has prompted worries that chronic

Figures issued Sept. 6 by ACI Europe showed that on Aug. 1, passenger traffic through UK airports was still 72% below 2019 levels while EU airports were only down 43%.

Despite the surge in demand and strong leisure business over the summer, 2021 will still be “economically challenging,” according to Eurowings CEO Jens Bischof.

Garuda Indonesia will be subsumed into a new state holding company once the national carrier’s debt restructuring is complete.

The U.S. startup has teamed with UK-based LCC easyJet on the project to get direct airline input while it is still in the development phase.

An effective global COVID-19 vaccine rollout, improved coordination of government travel policies and luck with variants will be needed.

Virgin Atlantic is shrinking the business-class cabin inside some of its A350-1000s to make way for more economy seats in a new seating layout tailored for certain leisure routes, beginning with flights from London Heathrow to Orlando, Florida.

Ryanair said it had been in discussions with Boeing about “a large follow-on order for Boeing MAX 10 aircraft" but now "both sides have agreed to waste no more time on these negotiations” after failing to agree on price.

The proposed airline, to be known as Fly Jinnah, will operate as a joint venture and adopt Air Arabia’s low-cost model.

The island state was among the first countries in the world to implement a stringent ban on the type on March 12, 2019.

KLM will not operate certain routes to North America this winter after the Dutch government designated the U.S. a “very high-risk area.”

An incumbent LCC and a new-entrant hybrid carrier both have ambitious growth plans.

In a long-expected move, Philippine Airlines has filed for bankruptcy protection.

Alaska Air Group rolled out a new company-wide COVID-19 vaccination policy that will reward employees who get vaccinated and penalize those who do not—but will not mandate staff get vaccinated like other airlines have.

An Embraer E190-E2 regional jet made its first commercial flight into London City Airport (LCY) on Sept. 2.

Bookings for business destinations have more than doubled over recent weeks, Eurowings reported, although they are recovering from low levels.