A US federal judge has blocked JetBlue Airways from acquiring budget carrier Spirit Airlines, concluding that the merger – first announced in July 2022 - would substantially damage competition. Follow...
Aero Capital Solutions (ACS) has closed a $130.3 million secured term loan to finance 15 mid-life narrowbody aircraft, which are currently on lease to airlines globally. Investec Aviation Finance an...
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has announced what it terms ‘new and significant actions to immediately increase its oversight of Boeing production and manufacturing’. This comes a day after...
Boeing president and CEO David Calhoun described his initial reaction to the Alaska Airlines 737 MAX 9 incident as “devastated” and “emotional”, adding that Boeing’s job is now to “understand literall...
Speaking in a company-wide address from the airframe manufacturer’s 737 factory in Washington, Boeing CEO David Calhoun said the organisation must acknowledge its shortcomings after an explosive decom...
United Airlines and Alaska Airlines have discovered loose bolts and what the former terms other ‘installation issues’ as they commence preliminary inspections of their 737 MAX 9 fleets. The American c...
Low-cost US airline JetBlue has announced the appointment of Joanna Geraghty, current president and chief operating officer, as the company’s next chief executive officer. Voted in unanimously by the ...
Following an incident on board Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 on January 6 in which a door plug became detached from a 737 MAX 9 (leading to a rapid decompression of the cabin), several updates have been...
AerCap is in the market with a new offering of senior notes via wholly-owned subsidiaries of AerCap Holdings, AerCap Ireland Capital Designated Activity Company and AerCap Global Aviation Trust. The f...
Dubai Aerospace Enterprise (DAE) has received a cash insurance settlement with proceeds totalling approximately $118 million in respect of aircraft previously on lease to Aeroflot. This represents a s...
A new agreement between aircraft lessors SDH Wings International Leasing and AviLease will see the latter supply up to 20 ‘predominately new technology’ narrowbodies from its current portfolio and fut...
Ahead of the publication of the completed Aviation Global Leaders Report 2024 in tandem with the Airline Economics Growth Frontiers conference in Dublin in January 2023, Airline Economics and KPMG are...
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