On January 28, 2013 Captain G R Gopinath’s non-compete clause with Kingfisher Airlines expires leaving the Air Deccan founder free to launch his next venture. Gopinath has confirmed that he is close t...
As anticipated – And as written here more than once during 2012: The Chinese just could not let ILFC get away and they have made sure that they have got in before momentum gathers behind any IPO talk ...
The new low-cost African airline Fastjet has announced that it is in negotiations to buy bankrupt South African airline 1time and that it has opened talks with Emirates with a view to a possible partn...
The talk yesterday was all about Delta and Virgin but lost in all this was the call in Africa for the big airlines to merge. Kenya Airways called for merger between it, Ethiopian and South African Air...
During 2012 investors have turned circles from pulling out of markets at the start of the year fearing a EU meltdown to looking for safe havens in government bonds and back to the current status quo o...
If you are an investor in airline portfolios or have an interest in fuel prices then this is for you: Fuel price is the big headache that keeps the airline finance staff awake at night, therefore we ...
Peter Gregg, former Qantas CFO, and venture capitalist Mark Carnegie have held discussions with unions and key investors as they try to put together a rival plan to challenge Qantas CEO, Alan Joyce, i...
UN aviation body ICAO will recommend creating a cyber security task force at a meeting next week in Canada. A task force is needed due to an increasing reliance on interconnected IT systems with opera...
UN aviation body ICAO will recommend creating a cyber security task force at a meeting next week in Canada. A task force is needed due to an increasing reliance on interconnected IT systems with opera...
“Each individual company is a public entity. Kingfisher Airlines’ issues will be resolved by Kingfisher Airlines and UB Holdings. It would be unfortunate if you try to link this transaction with the a...
You may recall that at the start of 2012 we stated that this was going to be a hard year for Kenya Airways and so it is proving to be as the airline has posted a massive 333% fall in profits to a pre-...
Passenger flights and air freight movements are slowing, the market is trending downward but we can still freely argue that much of this comes following the huge 2010 bounce that rather short sightedl...
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