UPDATE August 16 – German leisure airline Condor has announced an order for 41 Airbus A320neo family aircraft on July 25. The order comes just days after the Farnborough Airshow, from which Airbus returned home with three orders for ‘just’ 85…
UPDATE – On the day of its Annual General Meeting in Paris, Air France-KLM announced its long-awaited rights issue. The airline group plans to issue 1.928 million new shares and raise €2.256 billion in fresh capital, of which €400 million…
India’s Go First Airways (previously GoAir) is finally planning to list on the stock exchange through an initial public offering (IPO) in July, as air travel recovers from the pandemic. Go First Airways had earlier filed their offer document with…
Alaska Airlines is risking losing more pilots if it doesn’t successfully and quickly complete negotiations with pilots union ALPA. Negotiations over additional benefits have reached an impasse since starting in October. The Seattle Times quotes ALPA that it is seeing “a…
Lessor Aircastle is looking at converting four of its Boeing 737-800s and a couple of Airbus A330s into full freighters but it has no intention to return big-size to the freighter market, it said during its third-quarter FY21 results presentation on…
Some questioned if the airline would ever get them, but Iraqi Airways has taken delivery of its first Airbus A220-300 on January 6. It is the first new aircraft joining the fleet since the fourteenth and final brand-new Boeing 737-800 in…