Airlines & Lessors

The next chapter for South African Airways (SAA) appears to be drawing closer, with three shortlisted equity partners in contention and a further R5 billion ($345.4 million) government injection to fund employee severance packages.

European air traffic reached just a third of 2019 levels in the second week of February, as ongoing travel restrictions and national lockdowns kept a lid on demand, network manager Eurocontrol said in its latest update.

Charity UNICEF has launched an initiative with 16 airlines to ensure consignments of COVID-19 vaccine and other humanitarian supplies reach the areas where they are most needed.

Air Senegal has reignited a long-standing ambition to start flying to the U.S. and hopes to launch its first route later this year.

Airlink is launching a fourth route to Namibia in the wake of the southwestern African country’s national carrier ceasing operations.

New leisure carrier Vietravel Airlines has begun operating seven domestic routes in Vietnam.

IATA is urging the Hong Kong government to allow exemptions from new crew quarantine rules as quickly as possible, highlighting the damage the requirements will cause to airlines.

UK leisure carrier Jet2 has raised approximately £422 million ($585 million) to help weather further COVID-19 pandemic-related shutdowns.

Garuda Indonesia and Indonesia’s ministry of state-owned enterprises (BUMN) have moved to cut short a lease for 12 Bombardier CRJ1000 regional jets and return them to lessor Nordic Aviation Capital (NAC).

Ask the editors: Aviation Week forecasts that the vast majority of Boeing 767 aircraft in the fleet now will still be operating in 2030.

Africa’s primary hub carrier has decided to continue with the Boeing 737 MAX in spite of the March 2019 crash and subsequent grounding.

U.S. pilot unions are joining airlines and manufacturers in opposing a potential coronavirus test requirement for domestic U.S. airline passengers, though a mandate to move forward with the proposal does not seem imminent.

Air Canada believes improvements regarding Canada’s travel restrictions—particularly on quarantines—could begin in late April.

India’s Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has extended the duration of its 80% limit on how much pre-COVID-19 capacity airlines in the country are allowed to fly.

Boeing delivered 20 long-idled 737 MAXs from its stored backlog to customers in January and one from its production line, an Aviation Week analysis shows.

The EU is pressing on with increasing the performance of its navigation satellites, despite slow adoption among airlines.

Before the COVID-19 pandemic upended the global aviation industry, conclusions were being drawn that consolidation might be necessary in the Mexican

Panama’s Copa Airlines has a steady stream of Boeing 737 MAX family aircraft scheduled during the next couple years and has not seen any passenger pushback on the MAX aircraft it has in operation.

Europe’s airlines, airports, air traffic management (ATM) providers and aerospace firms have released an action plan to reach net zero carbon emissions by 2050.

LCC Air Arabia recorded a rare annual loss for only the second time in its 17-year history, as it grappled with the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Executives at Spirit Airlines said the carrier is on track to reach pre-pandemic capacity by mid-year 2021, driven by expected strength in leisure and visiting friends and relatives (VFR) travel.

All but one of the members of lobby group Airlines for Europe (A4E) have welcomed the European Union’s decision to extend relief from the “use it or lose it” provision governing airport slots.

The national carrier of southwestern African state Namibia has ceased operations.

Cathay Pacific will suspend a range of routes because of strict new quarantine rules for crew, dealing a further blow to a network already severely diminished by the COVID-19 pandemic.

The successful rollout of COVID-19 vaccine programs across Europe will translate into strong international traffic growth during the upcoming summer season, according to easyJet CEO Johan Lundgren.