Reading Time: < 1 minute British Airways and Iberia owner IAG has placed a multi-billion-dollar order for 37 A320neo jets from European aircraft manufacturer Airbus. It will convert 12 options into firm orders for A320neos and A321neos and it will also order another 25 A320neo family planes with the option to purchase 50 more. It is already IAG’s third short-haul […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute Spirit Airlines terminated its merger deal with Frontier Airlines on Wednesday, and it has now officially confirmed its intention to merge with JetBlue. The boards of directors of both carriers have approved a definitive merger agreement which will see JetBlue acquire Spirit for $33.50 per share in cash, including a prepayment of $2.50 per share […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute Qatar Airways has ordered 25 B737 MAXes 10 and taken options to purchase further 25 of the jets. Qatar Airways Chief Executive Akbar Al Baker told media in Farnborough on July 18, 2022, that a previous Memorandum of Understanding, signed in January 2022, to buy up to 50 MAX 737 aircraft, comprising 25 orders and […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute On July 15th, Turkey’s national flag carrier, Turkish Airlines, broke its occupancy record. “Yesterday, we hosted more than 260,000 passengers with an occupancy rate of over 87%. We had the busiest day in Turkish Airlines history,” the carrier’s senior vice president for media relations, Yahya Ustun, said on Twitter. It represents an increase in capacity […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute Scandinavian airline SAS has filed for bankruptcy protection in the US because striking pilots have contributed to its existing problems. The move will allow the airline to continue operations and bring forward plans to restructure its finances. “During the weekend, to our great surprise, we have seen that many flights are being deployed to popular […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute Wizz Air has wet-leased a B737-800 from Ukraine’s SkyUp Airlines to add to its Sofia base operations. The ten-year-old Boeing aircraft had been stored from February 18 to June 22 at Belgrade airport. After that, it operated charter flights under SkyUp’s code before the ACMI agreement with Wizz Air. The Ukrainian LCC has been placing […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute EasyJet has agreed to purchase 56 Airbus A320neo aircraft and convert a previous order to 18 new A321neo aircraft, the British airline said on Tuesday. According to the company, deliveries of the aircraft, which have a list price of $6.5 billion, will begin in the carrier’s 2026 financial year to replace the carrier’s older A319 […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute Wizz Air has reopened its summer base at Burgas, on the Bulgarian Black Sea. The base opened last year and is one of a minority of airports at which European airlines station aircraft and crew for a few months in the summer season. The departure of Wizz Air flight W64211 that left Burgas on June […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute Bordeaux Airport has just become France’s first commercial airport to permanently offer sustainable aviation fuel (SAF). On the first day, three flights leaving from Bordeaux were refueled with 30% SAF by TotalEnergies: Lufthansa flight LH1085 to Frankfurt, Air France flight AF7627 to Paris Charles-de-Gaulle and a medical assistance flight operated by Airlec, a business aviation […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute Air France will increase its weekly capacity to 5 destinations in Latin America starting in September. It will add 40% to the number of weekly operations and seats available from Paris with flights to Buenos Aires, Lima, Panama City, Santiago de Chile and São Paulo. Steven van Wijk, Commercial Director of the Air France-KLM Group […]