Air France-KLM will carefully grow capacity this year after last Winter’s additional capacity hurt unit revenues in Q1. The Franco-Dutch airline group plans to add capacity by on average 2-3 percent, slowing down growth on routes to the Middle East,…
With its huge order in 2011, American not only secured 460 new fuel-efficient aircraft, but it also forced Boeing to launch the MAX. At the time, the win for Airbus at American was big news. Airbus had not sold an…
Lufthansa came up with a couple of surprises at its Q1 results presentation on April 30. The first was the results itself, with a Group loss of EUR -336mln. The second is when the German aviation giant disclosed that it…
News Southwest airlines held its earnings call yesterday, and of course one of the topics was the MAX8 and how Southwest will deal with bringing the aircraft back into service. CEO Gary Kelly indicated that he expected operations to be…
A week long cockpit crew strike at Scandinavian Airline Systems (SAS) has come to an end on May 2 as the airline and unions have reached an agreement. Details have yet to emerge, except that unions in Sweden, Norway and…
United Airlines today revealed its new colors, which look at lot like the old colors, minus the gold tones from the Continental livery on which the current color scheme was based. The new scheme is illustrated in this chart…