Year Archives: 2024

[ad_1] South African Airways has raised the possibility of selling slots at London Heathrow in order to help address the airline’s financial pressures. SAA is government-owned and has been forced to revise its business strategy after a long-running attempt at privatisation collapsed earlier this year. The carrier’s chair, Derek Hanekom, told a parliamentary public accounts committee meeting on 22 October that SAA had emerged from business rescue, in September 2021, a “seriously weakened airline”, but there had since been “steady growth”. He says, however, …

[ad_1] Middle Eastern carrier Emirates is aiming to take a decision by the end of this year whether to take the Boeing 777-8F or Airbus A350-1000F as its future freighter from 2028. The Dubai-based carrier disclosed the timeline after signing for five more Boeing 777Fs to expand its SkyCargo fleet. Emirates is already a customer for the 777-8 passenger aircraft, having committed to 35 of the twinjet variant at last year’s Dubai air show. It is also preparing to introduce its first A350 this …

[ad_1] Graham and Lewis discuss early signs in the third-quarter earnings season. They then examine the impact of more bad news on aircraft delivery delays, as Boeing grapples with strike action from machinists. Finally, they look back on this year’s IATA World Sustainability Symposium and what stakeholders had to say about progress towards the net-zero target. Music credit: Tea K Pea “highabove”/Creative Commons. [ad_2] Source link …

[ad_1] IAG’s Irish carrier, Aer Lingus, is to open a new Airbus A321XLR transatlantic service to the US city of Indianapolis next year. The carrier will fly four-times weekly from Dublin beginning 3 May. Aer Lingus, one of the first airlines set to introduce the long-range A321XLR, will operate the twinjet on the route. The Dublin-Indianapolis sector has a great-circle distance of around 3,200nm. Aer Lingus will configure the aircraft in two classes including 16 seats in the business cabin. The new route will operate almost …

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[ad_1] Air Tahiti Nui has appointed Philippe Marie, the airline’s former secretary-general, as its new chief executive. The French Polynesian airline said on 17 October that Marie is “poised to steer the airline toward new opportunities and advancements”. “We are thrilled to welcome Mr Marie back to the Air Tahiti Nui team,” says Caroline Borawski, the carrier’s vice-president of the Americas. “His deep-rooted knowledge of the islands of Tahiti and his airline industry expertise are invaluable to us as we look to solidify …

[ad_1] United Airlines signed during the third quarter “definitive agreements” with unnamed aircraft lessors to lease 40 Airbus A321neo jets, with deliveries expected in 2026 and 2027.  As of 30 September, United entered ”into leases with rental obligations of approximately $4 billion for several mainline aircraft, regional aircraft under [capacity purchase agreements], airport facilities and office space, none of which had commenced as of such date”, the carrier said in a 16 October filing with the US Securities Exchange Commission (SEC). “These leases …

[ad_1] The US Department of Transportation (DOT) has tentatively awarded 10 hotly contested slots for long-distance domestic flights out of Ronald Reagan National airport in Washington, DC.  The DOT’s preliminary decisions, revealed in a 16 October regulatory filing, award slots to five US airlines proposing flights to destinations beyond Reagan airport’s 1,086nm (2,012km) perimeter:  The slots are being awarded as part of the Federal Aviation Administration’s Modernization and Reauthorization Act of 2024, signed into law by US President Joe Biden in May.  The DOT requested …

[ad_1] Delta Air Lines is now scheduled to receive its first Boeing 737 Max 10 in 2026, a year later than the US carrier previously expected to begin integrating the yet-to-be-certificated type into its fleet.  In a 10 October filing with US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Delta disclosed that it had recently amended its purchase agreement with Boeing, which includes orders for 100 737 Max 10s and options for a further 30 of the next-generation narrowbody jets.  An “updated delivery schedule” now …

[ad_1] United Airlines expects to take delivery of its first Airbus A321XLR in January 2026, when the long-range narrowbody jets will start replacing United’s ageing Boeing 757s.  Patrick Quayle, United’s senior vice-president of global network planning and alliances, said on a 9 October call with reporters that the XLR is not expected to play a role in the carrier’s planned network expansion next spring, which includes flights to Greenland and Mongolia.  “It will arrive after the summer season,” he says, hinting that the …

[ad_1] Delta Air Lines plans next summer to resume flights from Los Angeles to Shanghai and to launch a route from Minneapolis to Copenhagen, part of the airline’s broader network shuffle.  The Atlanta-based carrier had eliminated all its flights to China in 2020 amid the Covid-19 pandemic and has only resumed daily flights to Shanghai from Seattle and Detroit. Delta said on 11 October that in June 2025 it will reinstate its Los Angeles-Shanghai route, with plans to connect the cities three times …

[ad_1] VietJet has reaffirmed its order with CFM International for more than 400 Leap-1B engines as it prepares to take delivery of its first Boeing 737 Max in 2025.  The signing ceremony, which took place in Paris, covers commitments that the low-cost operator placed in 2016 and 2018 when it ordered the 737 Max aircraft. VietJet has 200 737 Max aircraft on order, and had initially aimed to take delivery of 12 jets in 2024. The first delivery has now been delayed to …