The sports teams market is small but unique segment of commercial aviation. Professional sports teams typically charter airliners configured in first-class seating to fly between events. Some teams even own their own aircraft. Historically, the Brooklyn/ Los Angeles Dodgers were…
Air travel is a very safe mode of travel, with few accidents and a trend line that points to increasing safety year by year. The following chart shows worldwide airline fatalities per million passengers from 1976 through 2014. The trend…
We sent the following questions to a senior manager at an Iranian airline. The purpose of these questions to better understand what has been going on inside the country in the past few years and what the future looks like. …
Sukhoi Civil Aircraft Company and SuperJet International (a joint venture between Leonardo-Finmeccanica Company and Sukhoi Holding) celebrated the delivery of the first Sukhoi Superjet 100 (SSJ100) to CityJet, which becomes the first European SSJ100 customer. The Irish airline will lease…
The commercial aviation industry faces difficulties daily. As an industry that is very sensitive to external events, conditions can change rapidly and impact aircraft manufacturers, engine manufacturers, and airlines in different ways. While the industry has always responded, fortunes have…
Russian news source TASS has this story. Meanwhile another Russian source describes the deal rather differently. The SSJ has been in play with this airline for some time. Russia and Egypt had their relationship ruffled by the bombing of the…