The Italian government has received approval from the European Commission to launch Italia Trasporto Aereo (ITA), the successor to Alitalia. The new airline will commence services on October 15, the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Finance has announced in a…
UPDATE JULY 13 – Air France-KLM is in negotiations with Airbus and Boeing about an aircraft order for potentially more than 160 aircraft for KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, its leisure subsidiary Transavia, and Transavia France. Group CEO Ben Smith confirmed this…
Should the European Commission end the waiver on the 80/20-percent slot rule that has been effective in Europe since the start of the pandemic? The topic resulted in some interesting remarks from airline CEOs with totally opposite views during Monday’s Paris…
The second quarter is almost halfway through but Air France-KLM already knows enough: as lockdowns and restrictions continue, Q2 is no better than Q1. The operating result will be almost identical to that of the first quarter. This wasn’t good,…
Air France-KLM has got approval from the European Commission for an additional EUR 4.0 billion recapitalization of Air France and its Holding company, the airline Group confirmed on April 6. This follows on remarks by French Minister of Finance Bruno…
While some European airlines have released results for their staggered financial years, it was actually Icelandair to be the first one to report on its full-year 2020 results on February 9. Like we have done with US airlines, here is…