ATR, Indonesia’s national airline Garuda Indonesia and Danish leasing firm Nordic Aviation Capital (NAC) announced an agreement for 35 new ATR 72-600 aircraft into the airline’s fleet. This deal involves NAC as lessor to Garuda, and includes for 25 firm…
Possibly the worst kept industry “secret” is out – Frontier has been sold by Republic to Indigo Partners. Indigo Partners is a private equity firm established by Bill Franke in 2002. Mr Franke has a legendary background (also here) in…
It seems the 787 and Norway can’t get along. On Saturday Norwegian took one of its new 787s out of service and demanded that Boeing repair the plane after it suffered repeated breakdowns. This is after a series of breakdowns…
LOT, the Polish national airline, is an early 787 customer and has experienced reliability difficulties, leasing in 767s as needed rather than canceling flights. Earlier this week the airline was forced to delay some of its 787 flights after checks…
News out of China today announced another ARJ21 delay. The aircraft was meant to enter service in 2007. Now it seems the program is running seven years late, if it even makes the new deadline. This delay provides fresh perspective…
In the video from the GMF we posted yesterday, Airbus’ John Leahy mentions that is headed to the Beijing Airshow after the event. In the Q&A he would not answer the obvious question about what was coming at the show…