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Kenya’s domestic travel faces quick rebound
Air travel in Kenya is back at fifty percent of 2019 levels, with over 400 aircraft movements per day. Especially domestic services are seeing a...
Avianca’s Chapter 11 plan – a review
Avianca has just filed its Chapter 11 plan; the Court is set to have a hearing on it on September 14, as the company positions itself to become the...
Turkish’ delight over Q2 operating profit
Turkish Airlines produced a second-quarter operating profit, but after-tax a loss of $62 million has remained. The airline especially benefitted...
Norse will only launch when the timing is right
Norse Atlantic Airways will only start operations when it is certain that the transatlantic has reopened for air travel and that most...
Wednesday 11 August 2021 – Morning Call Top Aviation News Stories
Welcome to Morning Call for August 11, 2021, and the Top Aviation News Stories for today. You can also search our Archives for older news stories...
Cathay’s hopes depend on Hong Kong’s reopening
The uncertain pace of vaccination rollouts and the related relaxing of travel restrictions dampen the expectations of Cathay Pacific about a swift...
Insight: Boeing has lost its competitiveness in space race
Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft program, which has still not made it to the International Space Station and returned safely to enable flights with...
Thoughts on SkyWest’s latest order
Yesterday SkyWest and Embraer announced an order for another 16 E-175s. This order boosts SkyWest's E-175 fleet, which is already the world's...
Green Africa’s tortuous road to AOC
After months of uncertainty over whether or not one of Nigeria’s, and perhaps African, airlines that promises so much would end up on paper, the...
Tuesday 10 August 2021 – Morning Call Top Aviation News Stories
Welcome to Morning Call for August 10, 2021, and the Top Aviation News Stories for today. You can also search our Archives for older news stories...
E175 order confirms SkyWest’s growth strategy
SkyWest Airlines' latest order for sixteen Embraer E175s for Delta Airlines confirms its plans for growth, fleet renewal, and long-term codeshare...
Etihad reduces operating loss by half
Etihad Airways has reduced its core operating half-year loss by half to $0.4 billion. The airline even posted a small positive EBITDA of $0.1...
Can August ’21 US air travel recovery beat August ’19?
The US air travel recovery continues to build momentum. In January the US averaged 761,233 daily passengers, February saw 873,084, March saw 1.22...
LATAM and Avianca’s strategies to increase capacity
In the last few weeks, LATAM and Avianca have announced new agreements to increase the number of seats they can offer in the region. They’re...
Lessor DAE sees no need to grow extra
Dubai-based lessor Dubai Aerospace Enterprise (DAE) doesn’t feel the need to grow extra quick, now that the two biggest players AerCap and GECAS are...
Monday 9 August 2021 – Morning Call Top Aviation News Stories
Welcome to Morning Call for August 9, 2021, and the Top Aviation News Stories for today. You can also search our Archives for older news stories by...
MAX visits China on hopes of recertification by year end
The first Boeing 737 MAX 7 prototype has arrived in China for flight tests to recertify the aircraft for operations in the country. Last month,...
ALC scales back sales as new deliveries arrive late
Lessor Air Lease Corporation (ALC) has significantly scaled back plans to sell any aircraft during the rest of the year and potentially into early...
Airbus O&D July 2021
Let's start off with the updated data model. Airbus delivered 47 aircraft in July to 32 customers. Airbus deliveries are 344 2021 YTD (99 more than...
Qatar grounds 13 A350s over quality spat
UPDATE ALC - A dispute with Airbus over a quality issue on Qatar Airways A350s has entered a new stage. On explicit instruction of the Qatar...
