Ryanair regained its leading position as Europe’s biggest airline in passenger numbers: the Irish low-cost flew 152.4 million pax in 2019, including LaudaMotion. This makes her bigger than Lufthansa again, who secured pole position in 2018. Now that most airline…
Boeing got its first MAX-order since a long time when Turkish/German holiday specialist SunExpress converted ten options for the MAX 8 into firm orders on November 18. The deal is seen as a vote of confidence in the MAX, Boeing’s…
Austrian Airlines is taking severe cost-cutting measures from 2021 to assure it return to profitability. Between 700 and 800 staff will be made redundant as the airline needs to save EUR 90 million annually after having given a profit warning…
It’s a strange twist of fortune: while UK low-cost airline easyjet will launch its Holidays business before year-end and likewise Air Asia is investing heavily in its holiday-branch, one of the oldest names in business has collapsed. Late on Sunday,…
The aviation industry (airlines and manufacturers) should do better in communicating with the general public which efforts it takes to reduce carbon-dioxide emissions and curb the negative climate footprint. This message was voiced by many airline executives at last week’s…
British Airways is the world’s top airline with the most mentions and reach on social media ahead of American Airlines and KLM, a survey from Awario says. The ‘social listening tool’ based in Belarus, Cyprus, and California has prepared a…