Airlines & Lessors

Air New Zealand improved the experience in its main cabin by improving its Economy Skycouch, creating a more pleasant and safer experience for families.

Airport Traffic 2018; Aircraft Values; Airline Traffic 2018; 2018 Airline & Lessor Financial Full-year Results

Spirit Airlines has kept costs and fares down, while equipping its entire fleet with Wi-Fi, and delivers great on-time and checked baggage performance.

Lufthansa and its Group partner airlines achieved record passenger growth, delivered strong financials and took customer service standards to new heights.

William "Bill" Franke has demonstrated a remarkable skill for expanding the aviation market. Thanks to Franke, more people than ever can afford to fly.

For two years in a row airBaltic has seen its strongest year in the company’s history, setting itself apart in a region where it has stimulated the market and created new city pairs.

DFW is a superhub that is expected to serve 73 million passengers in 2019, generating almost $40 billion of economic impact to the north Texas region.

The award is presented for goes to a person or organization that contributing exemplary service. Airlink is a rapid-response humanitarian relief organization.

Developed by Bombardier as the CSeries, the A220 sets a new standard in short-haul flying.

Key findings from the 2019 SITA Passenger IT Insights Survey, co-sponsored by ATW.

The Gatwick incident and disruptions at London Heathrow have left governments and airports, particularly in Europe, scrambling to counter the threat.

The Airbus A380 airliner fell behind the times, both in its intended market and in the technologies that made it such a novel passenger proposition.

IATA’s open banking initiative aims to offer a new method to purchase tickets

The deal to take over UK regional airline Flybe by a Virgin Atlantic-led consortium has completed, the Exeter-based airline said Feb. 22.

The provincial government of Jiangsu in eastern China is negotiating to buy a stake in HNA subsidiary Suparna Airlines, industry sources said.

Architects of a new standard for electronic aircraft records transfers are confident their work will yield the first real-world paperless transactions in 2019—a key milestone in a years-long effort to simplify aircraft-ownership transfers by cutting down on paper and connecting disparate back-end systems.

UAE-based LCC Air Arabia has recorded its first annual deficit for many years, slumping to a 2018 net loss of AED307 million ($83.6 million), reversed from a profit of $180 million in 2017.

LCC flydubai reported a full-year loss of AED159.8 million ($43.5 million), reversed from a profit of AED37.3 million for 2017.

Berlin-based logistics company Zeitfracht Group has acquired German regional airline LGW from the Lufthansa Group.

Boosted by a sharp increase in passengers, Kuwaiti hybrid airline Jazeera Airways posted a 2018 net profit of KD8.7 million ($28.6 million), up 5.7% compared to a net income of KD8.2 million in 2017.

Qantas reported falling profits in its international operation for the six months through Dec. 31, 2018, but the airline predicts competitive and cost pressure in the international market will ease this year.

People-Feb. 20, 2019

Hong Kong’s Cathay Pacific Airways anticipates a HK$2.3 billion ($293.7 million) net profit for 2018, reversing a HK$1.3 billion loss in the previous year, according to preliminary results.

The Air France-KLM Group reported a 2018 net profit of €409 million ($468 million), more than doubled from €163 million for 2017, on a 2.5% year-over-year (YOY) increase in revenue to €26.5 billion.

South Korean LCC Aero K aims to launch operations later this year if it wins approval during the government’s upcoming selection process for startup airlines.