It is not often you see wide-spread support from the staff of an airline for its boss to keep him on his post. But exactly that’s the situation right now around KLM’s president-director Pieter Elbers. A petition to nominate Elbers…
Icelandair is confident it can recover from “a challenging” 2018, in which the airline posted a net loss of $55.6m compared to a $37.5m profit in 2017. The challenges were partly self-inflicted, as some strategic mistakes on routing and sales…
Norwegian confirmed a change to its fleet plans on February 7, at the same time announcing a 1.451bln kroner net loss for its fiscal year 2018. This actually is an improvement over its 1.783bln kroner loss over 2017. The Norwegian…
The German aviation scene has claimed another airline: late night on February 4 Germania filed for insolvency and stopped operations after the arrival of her last service to Neurenberg on the 5th. Germania has been unable to secure a financial…
Ryanair blames 6 percent lower fares due to excessive capacity in Europe for its Q3 FY2019 loss of €19.6m, down from a €105.6m profit the previous year. The Irish low-cost carrier expects HY2 fares to be on average 7 percent…
Qantas tries to re-shape the Australian domestic market by purchasing a 19.9% share of Alliance Airlines, the Eagle Farm (Queensland) based airline. The purchase was announced on February 1 and has caught out the Alliance board, which has sought legal…