Almost two years to the day since announcing the Memorandum of Understanding, Dutch leisure airline Transavia has taken delivery of its first Airbus A321neo on Tuesday. Actually, it is the first of at least 100 A320neo family aircraft for Air France-KLM,…
Heart Aerospace announced that JSK has signed a LoI for up to 100 ES-30s. The deal includes 50 purchased and 50 option ES-30s. JSX is the biggest US public charter carrier. It has also attracted all sorts of attention from…
Lufthansa Group has made up its mind: the airline has ordered 40 Airbus A220-300s plus 20 purchase rights and 40 Boeing MAX 8s plus 60 purchase rights for its own needs and that of new subsidiary CityAirlines. It has also…
Ethiopian Airlines has secured a $450 million loan with Citi Corporate Banking and Export Agency and Finance to finance the purchase of three Boeing MAX 8s and two 777Fs. The loan is guaranteed by EXIM, the US Export-Import Bank. The loan…
It took a year, but the US Department of Transportation (DoT) came for Southwest Airlines. Southwest will pay $140 million, including a $35 million fine, to settle a DOT investigation into last December’s meltdown that stranded more than 2 million…
UPDATE – The Delhi-based low-cost airline IndiGo celebrated the milestone, having flown 100 million passengers in a calendar year. It is the first Indian airline to achieve this milestone. “With this achievement, IndiGo has joined a select club of global carriers…