Frontier Airlines has taken delivery of its first A321. In the past year the airline placed firm orders for 19 A321s. All these A321s are equipped with Sharklets. Frontier’s A321s seat 230 in a single class, and powered by CFM56-5B…
Japan’s Skymark Airlines declared bankruptcy in January. This was not a surprise as many thought the company’s ambitions were unrealistic. When it folded, the airline had large debts to both Intrepid Aviation and Airbus. Skymark filed for bankruptcy protection because…
Industry followers have been seeing a lot of opinions over the past two weeks on the 757 replacement issue. The arguments are essentially that Boeing must do something, but what should that something be? Boeing has good reason to be…
[edited from initial posting] Last week we were had a visit with Bernd Bechtel, Head of Group Fleet Management of Thomas Cook Group Airlines. The leisure travel group currently operates 32 757 and consists of four airlines, Thomas Cook Airlines…
Frontier Airlines placed a firm order with Airbus for nine A321-200s, its first such order of the larger model. The airline currently operates a fleet of 35 A319-100s and 20 A320-200s. The order brings Frontier’s Airbus order backlog to 89…
As reactions to the disruptive longer range A321neo idea from Airbus percolates, we took a look at the key market for this aircraft. Take a look at the tables below: there are 636 (~65% of all 757s delivered) Boeing 757s…