Inflite The Jet Centre (ITJC), part of the Inflite Group of companies, based at London Stansted Airport, has welcomed Steve Bull to its management team as Senior Sales and Business Development Manager. Bull joins from TAG Maintenance SA where he was customer support director, responsible for customer support interface and dealership agreements (on Bombardier and […]
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Russia’s TMH Group, a supplier of rolling stock, has agreed to buy Norway-based Bergen Engines from Rolls-Royce for a net price of €150 million (US$180 million). The deal is one of a number of sales involving its smaller businesses in an attempt to mitigate the financial hardship the conglomerate is suffering as a result of
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Deutsche Lufthansa AG has successfully issued a bond with a total volume of €1.6 billion. The bond with a denomination of €100,000 was placed in two tranches with a term of four and seven years respectively: The tranche with a term until February 11, 2025, has a volume of €750 million and bears interest of
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SIA Group revenue fell S$3,404 million (-76.1%) year-on-year to S$1,067 million during the third quarter, as all three passenger airlines within the Group (SIA, SilkAir, Scoot) recorded a sharp drop in passenger flown revenue due to low traffic. This was partially offset by improvements in cargo flown revenue, as the global airfreight capacity crunch continued
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Pegasus Airlines CEO, Mehmet T. Nane, has been elected as Chair of the Audit Committee of the International Air Transport Association (IATA) by the members of the IATA Board of Governors. Nane will serve as the Chair of the Audit Committee for a three-year term, which began on January 19, 2021. Commenting on the subject,
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SITA announced the launch of ‘Health Protect’ – an industry solution, to help airlines, airports, governments, and passengers safely and securely share information on health tests or vaccinations needed during travel. Successful trials have already been undertaken with travelers to the United Arab Emirates, and soon to start at Milan Malpensa Airport. For many countries,
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In January, Finnair carried 85,600 passengers, which was 92.4% less than in the corresponding period of 2020 and 7.5% less than in December 2020. The COVID-19 impact, including the exceptionally strict travel restrictions imposed by several countries, still affected all passenger traffic figures. It was especially visible in the North Atlantic figures (no scheduled passenger
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The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has released its results for the full-year 2020 global passenger results. Global demand in RPKs (revenue passenger kilometers) fell 65.9% compared to 2019 figures, and international passenger capacity measured in ASKs (available seat kilometers) fell by 75.6% compared to 2019 figures, while load factor fell 19.2% to 62.8% when
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Willis Lease Finance Corporation purchased twenty-five PW1100G-JM and PW1500G GTF™ aircraft engines from Pratt & Whitney and an affiliate company in December 2020. The transaction also includes a long-termmaintenance and support agreement with Pratt & Whitney and an affiliate company, enabling Willis Lease to offer engines maintained to the highest quality standard through Pratt &
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Air Lease Corporation (ALC) has delivered two new Boeing 737-8 aircraft on long-term lease to Sunwing Airlines. These aircraft, featuring CFM International LEAP-1B27 engines, are the third and fourth new Boeing 737-8 aircraft to deliver to Sunwing from ALC’s order book with Boeing. Sunwing is the largest integrated travel company in North America, with more
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