Qantas’ 787s to be stored for no less than 12 months
With resizing and restructuring to ensue, Australia based airline Qantas is preparing its Boeing 787-9 fleet for storage.…
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ALC: almost 60% of airlines got lease payment deferrals
Air Lease Corporation (ALC), a United States-based aircraft leasing company indicated that it granted 59% of its customers’…
How the pandemic highlighted Ryanair’s major weakness
Most recently, Ryanair hit the headlines over the fact that the Italian civil aviation authority (Ente Nazionale per…
How much value aircraft have lost?
With the drop in demand, the overflowing supply of used aircraft on the market made very significant changes…
Emirates A380 network expands to six cities
As the international market recovers, Emirates announced that it is adding one additional city to its Airbus A380…
Lufthansa Group to cut 25% of workforce, 14 A380s to follow
Lufthansa Group reported a huge Q2 2020 loss and confirmed that it will cut 22,000 jobs from the…
Marginal profit drop for lessor Dubai Aerospace
Dubai Aerospace (DAE), a Dubai, United Arab Emirates-based aircraft lessor announced a marginal drop in profit, despite the…
MC-21-300 successfully achieves water operation tests
Irkut Corporation ran an evaluation of the MC-21-300 prototype behavior over water. The aircraft proved safe to operate…
Virgin Australia ends long-haul; shifts to all-Boeing 737 fleet
Virgin Australia’s reorganization plan under voluntary administration includes mass layoffs, fleet recomposition and discontinuation of its subsidiary Tigerair…
United Nations Antonov An-74 crash in Mali injures eleven people
A transport plane of the United Nations, coming from Bamako with 11 people on board, made a difficult…
Emirates and the United Kingdom: a troubled marriage?
Emirates and the United Kingdom were seemingly in a happy marriage, as the Dubai-based airline increased its presence…
How planes are tested
The jets have to undergo several rigorous tests before airlines can buy them. This is one of the…
BA retires historical all-business BA1 trans-Atlantic flight
British Airways (BA) confirmed to AeroTime that it will terminate the historical all-business class flight BA1/BA2 between New…
Indian Rafales under Iranian fire during stopover in UAE
While ferrying between France and India, the first five Dassault Rafale fighter jets of the Indian Air Force…
Wizz Air expands as Q1 reports near negligible losses
Wizz Air’s Q1 FY2021, financial results revealed a $127 million (€108 million) statutory net loss, exceedingly low in…
Cathay Pacific to fly one-third of its fleet abroad for storage
According to Hong Kong media, some aircraft of Cathay Pacific and its affiliate airlines will leave for Alice…
IATA affirms view that air traffic will recover only in 2024
In its latest briefing, the International Air Transport Association (IATA) indicated that its member airlines are looking at…
Wizz Air criticized for labor and safety malpractices
During the peak of the coronacrisis, Wizz Air made over 1,000 pilots and cabin crew redundant, as it…