Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings has named Lillian A. Dukes Senior Vice President, Technical Operations. Dukes will lead the company’s technical operations, overseeing all maintenance and engineering activities at the Company, and report to James A. Forbes, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer. She will have responsibility for management of the total technical operations function, […]
As a result of the corona-virus pandemic and its unprecedented impact on the air transport sector, SWISS incurred an operating loss of CHF84.1 million for the first quarter of 2020 (which compares to an operating profit of CHF 48.3 million for the prior-year period). First-quarter revenues also declined to CHF923 million, some 20% below prior-year
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Proactively and in light of the COVID-19 pandemic, shareholders of Nordic Aviation Capital (NAC), the regional aircraft lessor, agreed to inject US$60 million (€53.5 million) of new equity into the company. Separately, the company has had constructive discussions with its largest lenders over a possible debt standstill and deferral to counteract the negative impact that
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The first aviation companies have signed up to the European Union Aviation Safety Agency’s (EASA) charter for the return to normal operations under COVID-19, pledging to work with their national authorities to put measures in place to support health safety – and to report back on their experiences to help other organisations with their real-life
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Singapore Airlines (SIA) has raised S$10 billion of liquidity through its recent Rights Issue, as well as a mix of secured and unsecured credit facilities. This puts SIA on a steady footing as it tackles the challenges posed by the global Covid-19 outbreak. SIA secured S$8.8 billion in liquidity through the successful completion of the
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The Civil Aviation Authority of the Cayman Islands (CAACI) has approved Eirtech Aviation Services as a Continuing Airworthiness Management Organization. This additional approval further increases the range of Eirtech’s CAMO services available to customers from aircraft airworthiness management and ARC recommendations for lease transition aircraft to supporting airlines and operator CAMO requirements. Eirtech Aviation Services
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Bombardier Aviation will adjust its workforce to align with current market conditions reflecting the extraordinary industry interruptions and challenges caused by COVID-19. When the pandemic first arose, Bombardier Aviation responded quickly, suspending manufacturing operations to support local government efforts to slow the spread of the virus and to protect the health and safety of employees,
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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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