UPS is in the home stretch of a five-year project designed to add 20 years of useful life to its Airbus A300-600 freighter fleet, finalizing agreements with two maintenance shops that will install upgraded avionics and other components on 51 aircraft.
Mexican ULCC Volaris is scaling back its capacity growth in the 2021 first quarter (Q1) because of new U.S. international testing requirements and growing COVID-19 case counts in Mexico.
Delta Air Lines will continue blocking off middle seats through at least April 30, extending a popular policy the company hopes will differentiate it as a more premium airline brand.
Swiss International Air Lines (SWISS) and its pilots’ union Aeropers have failed to reach agreement on a way forward to tackle the airline’s financial predicament.
A group of employees seeking to save South African Express (SA Express) are yet to provide a bank guarantee, keeping the airline at risk of liquidation.
Czech carrier Smartwings is set to become the first airline to operate the Boeing 737 MAX on a scheduled route in Europe since EASA gave its approval for the aircraft’s return to service.
SkyWest Airlines executives said the company could break even by mid-year 2021, assuming domestic travel demand picks up during the first half of the year.
Air Canada Rouge has become the country’s latest airline to suspend flights to warm weather markets following the Canadian government’s imposition of new travel restrictions for the Caribbean and Mexico.
The American Airlines subsidiary is moving into a larger facility at Springfield-Branson National Airport to enable scheduled overnight maintenance on up to three Embraer E175s simultaneously.
Lufthansa Group is planning to further expand its long-haul tourist offer from Frankfurt (FRA) at the start of the winter 2021/22 season with the addition of flights to Montego Bay in Jamaica and Varadero in Cuba.
The European Commission (EC) has asked Austria to explain its plans for a minimum price floor on air fares of €40 ($48) which the country plans to introduce to curb the CO2 emissions of low cost short-haul flights
The head of the largest U.S. flight attendant union warned federal lawmakers that a proposed domestic pre-departure COVID-19 testing mandate would be “devastating” for airlines struggling to scrape by on anemic travel demand.
Embattled Star Alliance carrier South African Airways (SAA) has received over 30 expressions of interest (EOIs) for various parts of its business, with a decision expected by March 31.
Air India’s regional subsidiary Alliance Air is set to welcome two Dornier 228s made by local airframer Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL) to its all-turboprop fleet.
European airlines which hoped progress in rolling out vaccines would lead to some sort of recovery are instead having to face the reality that tighter travel restrictions aimed at slowing the spread of the coronavirus are going to keep demand down in the near term.
Lufthansa managed to access the capital market again Feb. 4 by placing an additional two-tranche bond generating €1.6 billion ($1.9 billion) and now plans to begin paying back state aid received in 2020.
Air France-KLM CEO Ben Smith has reportedly called for the conditions Europe is expected to impose on the Franco-Dutch airline group’s recapitalization to be proportionate.
