Iran Air has taken delivery of its first new aircraft, an A321, in a handover ceremony in Toulouse with Farhad Parvaresh, Iran Air Chairman and CEO, and Fabrice Bregier, President, Airbus Commercial A...
Aviation Capital Group (ACG) has placed follow-on orders with Airbus for 35 additional A320-family aircraft, consisting of 30 A320neo-family aircraft, two A320ceo aircraft and three A321ceo aircraft. ...
Denis Kalscheur, the previous chief executive officer of Aviation Capital Group, indicated that his retirement from the Californian leasing company would not be the end of his career in aviation. On J...
GE Capital Aviation Services (GECAS) announced an order for 75 737 MAX 8 aircraft yesterday, with an approximate value of $8.25 billion at list prices. The follow-on order increases the GECAS firm ord...
The US majors are all introducing ultra low cost economy fares to better compete with the ULCC Frontier, Spirit and Allegiant, while Singapore Airlines is also moving to introduce more economy seats w...
Alaska Air Group has finally closed its acquisition of Virgin America, which was agreed by the two parties in April and approved by Virgin America shareholders in July. Alaska Airlines and Virgin Amer...
Not to be outdone in the ABS name stakes, Aviation Capital Group's pre-sale report is out for its $250.8 million asset backed securitisation issued by Merlin Aviation Holdings, which refinances a port...
Iran Air announced yesterday that it has confirmed a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) from June as a firm order. The deal includes 50 737 MAX 8s, 15 777-300ERs and 15 777-9s, which are valued at $16.6 bi...
IATA and Fitch Ratings have commented on the strong year for airlines and are predicting another good year for 2017, but are the clouds gathering on the horizon? The mood in the industry today is turn...
Oil prices rose over 8% across the board yesterday as OPEC agreed to cut production by 1.2 million barrels a day from 33.6 million – the first agreement in some seven years. The expectation now is tha...
Well here we are on the cusp of December and no doubt a very interesting 2017. Next year, what are the main issues we should be worrying about? Well, the same things that we usually worry about: polit...
The World Trade Organisation (WTO) has ruled today that Boeing has received illegal state tax breaks from the US Government in 2013 to produce the 777X. The US has been ordered to withdraw illegal sta...
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