This is a sector to consider if you are looking for a challenging workplace. This chart tells us that business is pretty good. Load factors are back where they used to be pre-pandemic. The 2023 number is for the half…
It has never been easy to run a US regional airline. And it is getting tougher every day. Let the data illustrate this. We are showing the US DoT P6 data source; the 2023 data is through the first quarter.…
On Tuesday, Ethos Asset Management Inc., USA, announced a new long-term financing partnership with Transportes Aéreos Regionales (TAR AerolÃneas ), a regional Mexican carrier with a fleet of nine Embraer E145LR aircraft operating to 18 domestic destinations and having charter…
An interesting airline consolidation in Norway: Norwegian will fully acquire regional carrier Wideroe. Norwegian will pay NOK 11.25 billion ($106 million) for Wideroe, which will continue as a separate entity operating under its own name. The acquisition follows an extensive partnership…
Embraer is forecasting demand for 11.000 deliveries until 2042 for aircraft with up to 150 seats. Of these, 2.300 will be jets with up to 100 seats, 6.490 with up to 150 seats, and 2.210 turboprops valued at $650 million. The…
The regional airline business is tough the world over. It faces scale-driven challenges – smaller planes, shorter routes, and higher costs. But it also operates in a space about seeing a sea change in technology—the worst of times, and yet…