UPDATE – ITA Airways, the successor to the loss-making Alitalia since 2021 and partly owned by the Lufthansa Group, reported its first net profit in its history in 2025 and its second year with positive EBIT. Yet there is work to do to…
It’s been a long ride: Six years late, $15 billion in charges, and more than two dozen airframes sitting at Paine Field. The Boeing 777-9 has tested the patience of every airline that ordered it. On March 17, the program…
African carrier Air Algérie has got its hands on early deliveries of ten Boeing MAX 8s from as early as this July, by taking over slots originally intended for Brazil’s GOL. The latest order, which was announced by Algeria’s APS…
The Mexican sky is no longer a theater of three-way competition; it has become the site of a massive structural consolidation. On March 25, 2026, the Extraordinary General Shareholders’ Meeting of Controladora Vuela Compañía de Aviación (Volaris) codified the legal…
For decades, Italian commercial aviation was a cautionary tale. Alitalia burned through billions in state subsidies, collapsed twice, and became synonymous with everything a national carrier shouldn’t be. Its successor, ITA Airways, launched in 2021 with a smaller fleet, a…
This is a multi-year miss of compounding proportions. In late 2023, Airbus CEO Guillaume Faury told AirInsight the A350 would reach 10 per month in 2026, up from 6, with 9 targeted by the end of 2025. Neither happened. The…