Lufthansa Group has warned that its three short-term headwinds include questionable demand on flights to North America, geopolitical tensions, and tariff escalations as the group ended H1 2025 with a net profit, a contrast to last year. In H1 2025,…
Austrian Airlines is taking severe cost-cutting measures from 2021 to assure it return to profitability. Between 700 and 800 staff will be made redundant as the airline needs to save EUR 90 million annually after having given a profit warning…
Lufthansa Group member Austrian Airlines is to restructure its operations and make Vienna Schwechat Airport its central hub. The airline will also grow the continental fleet while studying plans to renew the long-haul fleet, Austrian announced on January 17 during…
With another two stories today about in-flight component failures (Southwest, Sichuan), we are being reminded that airplanes are vulnerable. There is nothing quite like an airline/airplane scary story to catch people’s attention. The industry safety statistics are too good to…
E-taxi pioneers Wheeltug just released research (ground operations summary 31 Mar 2016) it undertook monitoring airport operations. The case for adding e-taxi capabilities to aircraft has tended to focus on saving fuel burn. But fuel burn is no longer such…
A story out today might lead readers to think a CSeries order from Austrian is imminent. Its not. We contacted Austrian and we were told “I am pleased to confirm that we achieved a framework-agreement with our workers council, so…