Ryanair’s Chief Executive, Michael O’Leary, announced on Thursday, August 31, that the low-cost carrier intends to bid for 90 of Alitalia’s planes and associated routes. Although it has indicated that it intends to operate the planes with existing cabin crew and staff, some redundancies and aircraft lease restructuring will likely be required. Alitalia has been […]
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Qantas and Emirates will apply to extend their cornerstone partnership for another five years, making changes to reflect customer demand, new aircraft technology and each airline’s respective network strengths. These changes will deliver additional benefits to the eight million passengers who have travelled more than 65 billion kilometres on the combined network since 2013, increasing
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In the last few months of the initial phase of F/LIST’s expansion project to Laval, aerospace industry veteran Mario Lepine has acted as general manager of the Canadian branch founded in Montreal in 2007. To emphasize the importance of this venture and to strengthen F/LIST CANADA’s position, Mr. Lepine has been appointed CEO of the
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AFI KLM E&M has entered into an agreement with Delta Air Lines to provide component support for the U.S. carrier’s entire Airbus A350 fleet as well as a reciprocal component agreement which takes advantage of Delta TechOps component capabilities. The maintenance solutions to be performed by AFI KLM E&M cover component repairs and access to
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The Rolls-Royce Trent XWB-97, the latest and most powerful variant of the Trent XWB, the world’s most efficient large civil aero engine, has today received formal flight certification, leading the way to the engine entering into service later this year. Certification of the 97,000lb thrust engine, which will exclusively power the Airbus A350-1000, builds on
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On September 1, Alistair Dibisceglia takes over the role of Vice President and Head of Global Leasing at MTU Maintenance Lease Services B.V in Amsterdam. In this role, Dibisceglia is responsible for commercial and technical activities. He is looking to build on MTU Maintenance Lease Services’s offerings for lessors and lessees, as well as expand
DVB, the specialist in international transport finance, reported a consolidated net loss before taxes of €506.3m in the first six months of 2017 (previous year: net income of €14.1m). The net figure was dominated by a significant increase in allowance for credit losses, to €445.3m (previous year: €83.4m), reflecting market developments. Moreover, due to the
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BAA Training, one of the largest aviation training centres in Northern Europe, has released that more than 650 future pilots will enrol on BAA Training’s Ab Initio programmes until the end of 2021. Recently, BAA Training has launched five new cadet programmes. Partnership agreements to support future talents were signed with Wizz Air, Lao Skyway,
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In a bid to expand further, Southwest Airlines Company LUV has reported the addition of new routes from cities in California as well as launch of international service in key cities. The Dallas, TX-based low-cost carrier plans to add 19 new routes from California Cites, increasing frequency to the existing 27. The carrier will also
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