Singapore Airlines is dropping its exclusive all-premium non-stop flights to Los Angeles and Newark over the next two months. These flights are possible by using the A340-500 with its 9,000 mile range. Only the Boeing 777LR is in that league…
IATA announced global passenger traffic results for August showing a strengthening of the healthy demand trend of the past few months. Total RPKs rose 6.8% compared to August 2012. Capacity increases YOY lagged demand at 5.6%. This pushed the load…
ATR, Indonesia’s national airline Garuda Indonesia and Danish leasing firm Nordic Aviation Capital (NAC) announced an agreement for 35 new ATR 72-600 aircraft into the airline’s fleet. This deal involves NAC as lessor to Garuda, and includes for 25 firm…
Possibly the worst kept industry “secret” is out – Frontier has been sold by Republic to Indigo Partners. Indigo Partners is a private equity firm established by Bill Franke in 2002. Mr Franke has a legendary background (also here) in…
Many questioned the idea of Heathrow and Gatwick being put under separate management. Turns out it was a very good idea because nothing makes things work better than competition. Right now the two airports are fighting over the chance to…
It seems the 787 and Norway can’t get along. On Saturday Norwegian took one of its new 787s out of service and demanded that Boeing repair the plane after it suffered repeated breakdowns. This is after a series of breakdowns…