The duopoly refers to Airbus and Boeing – between them accounting for at least 90% of new aircraft deliveries, month after month. These two OEMs are very important companies. What happens to them impacts your world. Until quite recently these…
The European Union’s General Court of Justice has annulled the French state aid package provided to Air France in 2020 and 2021. In a complaint filed by Ryanair and its subsidiary Malta Air, the General Court said on Wednesday that it…
It’s game on for another round of airline consolidation in Europe. The Portuguese Council of Ministers has approved the plan to privatize TAP Air Portugal and sell 51 percent. At least five percent will be reserved for the airline’s employees, the…
Can and will Lufthansa be forced to repay the state aid that the airline received as part of the recapitalization plan during the Covid crisis in June 2020? That’s the question now that the Court of Justice of the European Union ruled…
Two years earlier than what it said only some months ago, Air France-KLM wants to free itself from all French and Dutch state aid and state-backed loans as early as coming April. With that, the airline group wants to get rid…
SAATM inches towards take-off