Etihad Airways Group and Air Arabia Group are to establish a new joint venture Air Arabia Abu Dhabi that will act as a feeder to Etihad, the two airline groups announced on October 16. With the JV both airlines want…
Etihad announced another loss-making year on March 14. It ended 2018 at $-1.28bln, which is a slight improvement on the $1.52bln loss the previous year. The second year of its transformation program saw its core operating performance improve by 15…
Emirates is currently negotiating with Rolls-Royce for its next batch of A380s. Bloomberg had a report yesterday on the latest development that the airline and Rolls-Royce have hit a “snag” in their negotiations. The report further mentions potential delivery delays and…
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…
One of the ME3, Etihad is likely to shrink. Reports indicate that this shrink is going to disrupt Airbus and Boeing’s skyline and order books. What do we know about Etihad’s fleet? At the end of 2017, the carrier had…
The results are grim. Etihad reported a loss of $1.9bn. Emirates announced its first decline in profits in five years. And Qatar is besieged and indications are to expect it to report 30% lower revenues because of the neighboring countries…