2018

Jet Airways is facing a tough scenario, as it is taking heavy losses per a combination of rising costs and steep income deprecation. The tough industry environment in the backdrop of a sharp rise in Brent fuel price by more than 50 percent over Q2 FY18, a depreciating rupee and a challenging pricing situation in […]

Israel’s flag carrier airline El Al has announced a new nonstop service from Manchester Airport to Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion International Airport, scheduled to start on May 26, 2019. El Al also serves the route from London’s Heathrow airport but will be the sole full-service airline to operate this route from the north of the […]

Turkish Airlines reported this week that in the first nine months of 2018 they have achieved a net profit of $755 million, a 300 percent increase versus the same period of 2017. The airline has made significant gains in most of the metrics used to measure airline performance. Revenue rose by 20 percent to hit $9.9 […]

On Oct. 29, Lion Air flight 610 crashed into the Java Sea shortly after taking off from Jakarta, killing all 189 passengers and crew onboard. Just over a month earlier—on Sept. 28—Air Niugini flight 73 crashed in Micronesia, leaving one dead. On May 18, 112 perished as Cubana de Aviación flight 972 crashed soon after […]

A Boeing 757-200 aircraft operated by Caribbean carrier Fly Jamaica was badly damaged after a landing incident in Georgetown, Guyana early Friday morning that saw the aircraft overshooting the runway. The Toronto-bound aircraft had taken off from Cheddi Jagan International Airport in Guyana before it had to return to the airport due to hydraulic issues. […]

TAP Air Portugal is under massive renovation and rejuvenation, bringing in new aircraft at a steady pace and is undergoing a refresh of it’s domestic and long-haul fleet with JetBlue founder David Neeleman at the helm. TAP has 19 Airbus A330-900neos on order, featuring Airbus’ Airspace interior, and plenty other aircraft in the order books. The […]

When Lufthansa decided to enter the low-cost long-haul market with its subsidiary Eurowings three years ago, the initial plan had been to use the Cologne-Bonn Airport in Western Germany as the hub and main departure point for its operations. Initially, the airline did not want to create competition to itself by basing Eurowings long-haul aircraft at […]

The Argentinian Aviation Authority has released its statistics for the month of October, which show a steady growth on domestic traffic, but a steep descent in international passenger demand. October is a key month for Argentinian aviation as Norwegian Air Argentina recently began service amongst a field of various low-cost competitors. The month showed an […]

All Nippon Airways (ANA), the largest airline in Japan, has announced that its profit for the first half of the fiscal year has plunged 37.7 percent. According to ANA, the net profit for the first six months was ¥73.74 billion as it faced headwinds from higher fuel costs and increased expenses for safety, quality and personnel.  […]

United Airlines has become the first North American airline to take delivery of Boeing’s newest Dreamliner, the Boeing 787-10, receiving the aircraft from Boeing on Monday. The first American airline to operate the Dreamliner a year after its first delivery back in 2012, United has since purchased aircraft in every variant, including the -8, -9 […]