Reading Time: < 1 minute Ryanair says it is going to recruit 2,000 pilots over the next three years. Having additional flight crews will be necessary as the industry’s recovery is imminent and the airline is healing from the Covid-19 impact. The main trigger for a recruitment drive Ryanair has just announced is that the carrier is taking 210 new […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute Turkish Airlines is getting stronger and is restoring wages to its employees. It has also received financing from US-based Castlelake backed by four new Boeing 737 MAX aircraft. Turkish Airlines, just like any other airline, was hit hard by the pandemic and had to cut wages in 2020. The wages were reduced by 30% for […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute Finnair has said its passenger numbers doubled from May to June. The Finnish airline carried 127,900 passengers in June, which stands for a 131.5% increase on its 2020 figure. As Europe keeps recovering from the third coronavirus wave, it also marks a 54.5% increase month on month. The increase in passenger numbers wasn’t spread equally […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute Lufthansa has raised cash after issuing a bond worth €1 billion. As of March 31, the carrier had around €10.6 billion in cash and cash equivalents at hand. Lufthansa raised the first €500 million due to a series of €100,000 three-year bonds with an annual interest rate of 2.0%. Another €500 million came via eight-year […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute Spanish low-cost airline Vueling has come back to George Best Belfast City Airport in Northern Ireland for the first time since 2015. The Airbus A320-200 that took off from El Prat Airport in Barcelona at 11:50 and arrived in Belfast at 13:11 was given a traditional water cannon salute to celebrate the return. There were […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute The European Commission has announced recently that the struggling Alitalia will be getting a financial support package worth €39.7 million. This move will compensate the carrier for the damages suffered due to the coronavirus outbreak between 1 March and 30 April 2021. The Commission explained its decision: “The restrictions put in place in Italy and […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute Although currently, it is not common to launch new long-haul routes among airlines, LOT Polish Airlines has been an exception. It restarted the route from Kraków to New York JFK after an absence of 13 years. The first flight to JFK began on June 26th using a Boeing 787-8. The route operates once-weekly until the […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute Brussels Airlines has recently announced it will be taking delivery of three Airbus A320neo aircraft in 2023. The new aircraft that will modernize the carrier’s fleet will also help it with the CO2 emissions reduction. The airline aims to reduce its CO2 emissions by 50% by 2030 and become CO2 neutral by 2050.  Peter Gerber, […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute China’s Chengdu Tianfu International Airport has officially started its operations. Its inaugural flight was operated by Sichuan Airlines, which took off at 11:10 a.m. on Sunday, bound for Beijing. Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan province, has become the third city to have two international airports, joining Shanghai and Beijing. Tianfu is the largest civil transport […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute On the weekend, United Airlines received the first Boeing 737 MAX 8 out of the 40 ordered, weeks before its mid-summer flights on the type start. The Boeing 737 MAX 8 registered as N27251 departed Seattle’s Boeing Field (BFI) on Sunday, June 27 and landed at New York’s Newark Airport (EWR) around 17:30 local time. […]