2023-07-07 15:18:00 In its latest airline industry barometer, specialist consultancy IBA forecasts that global airline seat capacity (in ASK, available seat-kilometres) will surpass 2019 levels next October. Chinese operators catch up For the month of June, capacity has already reached 95% of pre-crisis levels overall. IBA specifies that, curiously, the level of capacity remains down … Read more
According to preliminary statistics from ACI (Airports Council International), international air traffic continued its post-Covid recovery in 2022 with a total that almost reached 7 billion passengers. This represents a growth of 53.5% compared to 2021 and a total of 73.8% compared to the pre-crisis international traffic of 2019. Five US airports in the top … Read more
Delta is making a comeback at Nice-Côte d’Azur airport and will do a double blow for the entire 2023 summer season. From March 26, the American airline will relaunch its seasonal daily service to New York. The connection is relaunched for the 31st consecutive year and this therefore makes Delta the oldest American company to … Read more
The work pressure at the airport is unrelenting at the moment, with both Schiphol and KLM facing staff shortages. The measures taken by KLM are aimed at restoring operational stability and thereby relieving the strain on the staff at Schiphol and KLM. We are canceling 10 to 20 daily return flights to European destinations until … Read more
In parallel with the announcement of the launch dates for flights departing from Boston, which complement the routes launched in 2021 from New York, JetBlue has made a counter-takeover offer to get its hands on Spirit Airlines. After the launch of its first transatlantic flights from New York JFK in August 2021, the American airline … Read more
The upfront payment of EUR 1.8125 billion represents 25 percent of the total concession fee of EUR 7.25 billion (excluding VAT) payable over the entire concession period from early 2027 to late 2051. On December 1, 2021, the two companies were awarded the new operating concession at Antalya Airport in a bidding process. The joint … Read more
Mesfin has 38 years of airline management and operations experience in aircraft maintenance and engineering, procurement, information technology, flight operations, capability development, capacity building, corporate strategy development, flight operations management and corporate governance. He holds a Masters in Business Administration (MBA) from the Open University in the UK, an MSc in Electrical Engineering specializing in … Read more
Around 100 athletes, trainers and supervisors started with great excitement and in happy expectation of many successful competitions (Austrian Wings has the feeble-minded Gender form of the Lufthansa press office, which is categorically rejected by an overwhelming majority of the German population, brought back into correct German) to Beijing. At 5:45 p.m. it was “Welcome … Read more