Airlines & Lessors

By Alan Dron
Airbus Group reported a net profit of €399 million ($452 million), down 50% compared to €792 million a year ago.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Alan Dron
Italian flag-carrier Alitalia is considering taking a substantial stake in Air Malta.
Airlines & Lessors

Las Vegas-based Allegiant Travel Co., parent of Allegiant Air, reported first-quarter net income of $72 million, up 11% from a $64.9 million profit in the year-ago period.
Airlines & Lessors

By Adrian Schofield
Japan Airlines (JAL) has raised its annual net profit to ¥174.4 billion ($1.6 billion) for the year through March 31, compared to a profit of ¥149 billion in the prior year.
Airlines & Lessors

By Adrian Schofield
Japan's All Nippon Airways Holdings (ANA) has reported a net profit of ¥78.1 billion ($694 million) for the financial year through March 31, doubling its profit of ¥39.2 billion in the previous year.
Airlines & Lessors

Worldwide airlines ranked by available reported Passenger Load Factor year-to-date 2016, as of April 27, 2016.
Airlines & Lessors

The top 30 Airlines, calculated and ranked by available reported RPK figures for 2016 as of April 27, 2016.
Airlines & Lessors

UK-based Virgin Atlantic is seeking to become a more efficient airline as it moves steadily toward sustained profitability, CEO Craig Kreeger said.
Airlines & Lessors

Average Domestic Air Fare for 100 US airports for the fourth quarter of 2015, listed by average fare, highest-to-lowest.
Airlines & Lessors

The Executive Board of Deutsche Lufthansa is working to bring 45%-owned Brussels Airlines into its low-cost carrier (LCC) Eurowings and will decide by the end of August whether to exercise a call option to allow for a full takeover.
Airlines & Lessors

By Mark Nensel
Abu Dhabi-based Etihad Airways reported a 2015 net profit of $103 million, up 41.1% from the airline’s $73 million net result for 2014.
Airlines & Lessors

Boeing posted a first-quarter net profit of $1.22 billion, down 9% from net income of $1.34 billion in the prior-year period, and reaffirmed guidance that full-year 2016 revenue and commercial aircraft deliveries will be slightly down from 2015.
Aircraft & Propulsion

Florida-based ultra low-cost carrier (ULCC) Spirit Airlines reported a first-quarter net profit of $61.9 million, down 10.1% from net income of $69 million in the 2015 March quarter, as the airline continues to make adjustments under a new CEO.
Airlines & Lessors

Lufthansa Hub Munich CEO Thomas Winkelmann told ATW he believes the new satellite facility at Munich Airport, which began operations Tuesday, will better position Lufthansa in the global aviation competitive market.
Airports & Networks

By Polina Montag-Girmes
Russian airlines carried 5.8 million passengers in March, down 2.7% year-over-year (YOY), and 16.5 million passengers in the first quarter, down 2.8% YOY, according to Russia’s Federal Air Transport Agency, Rosaviatsia.
Airlines & Lessors

Japan’s All Nippon Airways (ANA) low-cost subsidiary (LCC) Vanilla Air has taken delivery of the first of three new Airbus A320-200s from Singapore-based lessor BOC Aviation.
Airlines & Lessors

New York-based JetBlue Airways reported a first-quarter net profit of $199 million, up 45.6% over net income of $137 million in the prior-year period, as revenue increased 6.1% year-over-year to $1.62 billion.
Airlines & Lessors

Grupo Aeromexico reported first-quarter net income of MXP161 million ($9 million), down 12.6% from a net profit of MXP185 million in the year-ago period.
Airlines & Lessors

New York-based JetBlue Airways president and CEO Robin Hayes has confirmed publicly for the first time that JetBlue was the rival bidder for acquiring Virgin America, which has entered into an agreement to be purchased by Seattle-based Alaska Air Group.
Airlines & Lessors

In a story posted on ATWonline.com April 25 about an investigation into the crash of a Swedish West Atlantic CRJ regional jet, the headline mistakenly said it was a WestJet crash. WestJet is a Canadian airline; it does not operate CRJs and has no connection with West Atlantic.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

Ultra low-cost Mexican carrier Volaris reported 2016 first-quarter net income of MXP602 million ($34.4 million), up 96.7% from a MXP306 million profit in the year-ago period.
Airlines & Lessors

Shanghai-based Juneyao Airlines reported a first-quarter net profit of CNY454.2 million ($70 million), up 70% over a net income of CNY266.5 million in the year-ago quarter.
Airlines & Lessors

By Polina Montag-Girmes
Russia’s UTair Airline carried 1.2 million passengers in 1Q 2016, up 17.8% year-over-year.
Airlines & Lessors

By Alan Dron
Low-cost carrier (LCC) Norwegian has reported a first-quarter net loss of NOK800 million ($96 million), widened from a net loss of NOK538.3 million a year ago.
Airlines & Lessors

By Alan Dron
The CEO of Italy’s Meridiana has announced he is stepping down after less than 18 months in the post.
Airlines & Lessors