Kuwaiti lessor ALAFCO will ask for shareholder approval in a special general meeting on December 27 to sell a significant part of its aircraft portfolio to Macquarie AirFinance Group. The transaction, which helps to improve the lessor’s financial position, has been…
The coming twelve months could be crucial for the consolidation of the airline industry in Southern Europe. Not just in Italy, where a final decision on the partial sale of ITA Airways is delayed as a new administration has entered…
Air France-KLM intends to sell part of the equity of Air France Engineering & Maintenance to Apollo Global Management, a New York-based asset management company. The negotiations are for a number of spare engines that are owned by the AF…
Just three weeks into the new year, ATR has reported its first order of 2022. Maldivian, the airline from the islands of the Maldives southwest of India, has ordered two 72-600s and one 42-600. Maldivian order first 2022 sale for ATR.…
A wide-ranging chat with regional airline guru UK-based Bernie Baldwin. We discuss the sale of the Q400 program to Viking. Along with several implications of this move. Viking has now bought every propeller-driven program Bombardier has owned. Indeed, Viking will…
SuperJet International – a joint venture between Alenia Aeronautica (a Finmeccanica company) and Sukhoi Holding – and the US leasing company Willis Lease Finance Corporation signed today a Memorandum of Understanding for the purchase of 6 Sukhoi Superjet 100 (SSJ100)…