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A330neo Chicago-Atlanta
On July 6th Airbus brought their A330-900 from Chicago to Atlanta. We were invited by Airbus to join this flight to...
A perspective on the A330neo loss at American
"American Airlines is a big customer. Every OEM wants their equipment flown by this airline. Losing this customer is...
Air Berlin’s A330s attracting attention?
Reuters has an interesting story on the Air Berlin A330 fleet. It mentions an apparent interest in a dozen of the...
In conversation with Cobalt Air
We had a conversation with Andrew Madar, CEO at Cobalt Air, which is based in Cyprus. Cyprus is not an easy market,...
Premium – A Fleet Review of Air France/KLM
Air France and KLM merged in 2004. The joint company has hubs in Amsterdam and Paris. Because of their long...
Middle of Market Considerations
The MoM continues to be a subject of considerable chatter among aviation and financial pundits and analysts. It is...
Premium #217 – Delta’s Fleet News
Over the past week we had some big news from Delta. First came the much anticipated order for the CSeries. Although...
EVA Airways’ big order
Boeing announced EVA Airways' intent to purchase up to 24 787-10s and two additional 777-300ERs, which is valued at...
Skymark update
There is some intriguing news out of Japan today. ANA seems to have won the battle for Skymark with Airbus' help. ...
Premium #180 – Skymark and the Intrepid/Delta Plan
Japan’s Skymark Airlines declared bankruptcy in January. This was not a surprise as many thought the company’s...
Fleet manager panel notes – Airline Economics Dublin 2015
One of today's best panels was titled the "Fleet Managers" and moderated by Helane Becker from Cowen & Co. On the...