Delta is continuing to block the selection of middle seats and capping seating in every cabin through September 30, 2020. “Reducing the overall number of customers on every aircraft across the fleet is one of the most important steps we can take to ensure a safe experience for our customers and people,” said Chief Customer […]
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Air Transport Services Group (ATSG), a provider of medium wide-body aircraft leasing, air transportation and related services, has signed an agreement to lease twelve additional Boeing 767-300 converted freighter aircraft to Amazon. One of the twelve aircraft was delivered on May 29, 2020 and the remaining eleven will be delivered in 2021. All twelve will
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Airbus has named Anand Stanley as President, Airbus Asia-Pacific, effective July 1, 2020. Based in Singapore, he will lead the strategy and future positioning of Airbus and its divisions across the region. In this role Stanley will have responsibility for commercial aircraft sales and customer affairs, group-wide government affairs, industrial and joint venture partnerships, as
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After the financial crash owing to the COVID-19 pandemic, Lufthansa, the DAX founding member, has lost its place in the German stock exchange’s top league. Germany’s largest airline will be relegated to the MDAX of mid-cap companies as of June 22. This was announced June 4, by Deutsche Börse during the regular review of its
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Although the COVID-19 pandemic impact was still clearly visible in the May traffic figures, Finnair has reported that the number of passengers increased and cargo-only flights more than doubled from April 2020. In May, Finnair carried 26,700 passengers, which is 97.9% less than in the corresponding period of 2019 but 65.0% more than in April
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GE Capital Aviation Services (GECAS) has delivered a Boeing 777-300ER, MSN 32789, to Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) for the prototype passenger-to-freighter conversion for the “Big Twin” program announced last October. Ferrying from Dubai, the aircraft arrived in Tel Aviv on June 4, where it will undergo an extensive conversion at IAI’s facility, including the addition
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JetHQ is expanding its team of aircraft professionals with the addition of an experienced aircraft transactions specialist. The aircraft transaction and brokerage company has announced that Josh Tremain has joined as its Manager of Contracts and Business Development. Tremain comes to the company with more than 12 years of aviation experience as an escrow agent
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Pakistan International Airlines has been told by the country’s aviation authorities that immediately prior to the crash of its Airbus A320 in Karachi on May 22, the passenger plane’s pilot had ignored warnings from air traffic control that its descent was too steep and too fast, a spokesperson for the flag-carrying carrier confirmed. The plane
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