California Pacific Airlines, an airline start-up based in Carlsbad, California whose brand name is CP Air, hopes to start operations by April 1, 2018. This is after nine years of unsuccessful attempts to take off. CP Air is planning routes…
Over the last two decades, there has been an increasing differentiation between the “haves” and “have nots” in many respects of society. Income levels among the rich have risen with inflation, while real wages for the working class in the…
It is quite remarkable how quickly the ME3 became tier one players in the global airline industry. As the chart illustrates, Etihad is the smallest of the ME3. Because Etihad was the smallest but had the same task of “showing…
The Centre for Asia Pacific Aviation is a highly respected consultancy, and we at AirInsight have met their leadership team and respect their capabilities and ethics. They are an outstanding firm. Annually, they award “man of the year” honors to…
ATR announced today that FedEx Express, the world’s largest express transportation company, and ATR signed a contract for the firm purchase of 30 ATR 72-600s plus 20 options. These aircraft will be the first new ATRs to be directly delivered…
Today it emerged that Qatar Airways has bought another stake in an airline. This time it spent $662m on a near 10% stake in Cathay Pacific. The move by the airline follows a pattern as the table illustrates. We can…