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Trembling Fortress: Accelerating Shifts in Aircraft Leasing

On the first days of March 2020, the aviation leasing market was still expecting to reach $285.5 billion worth by 2026....

Greenpeace to sue Dutch government over KLM bailout

Greenpeace will take legal action against the Dutch government, accused of bailing out the airline KLM with 3.4 billion...

Warning from Airbus: voluntary departures might not be enough

Airbus has reportedly warned its staff about compulsory layoffs in fears that passenger traffic could be recovering from...

Brazil proposes a $376 million injection to Azul Airlines

Azul Airlines, a Brazil-based carrier, received an injection proposal from the Brazilian government that could dilute it...

Asiana receives $2B injection from S. Korea after HDC deal fails

South Korea plans to inject $2 billion (2.4 trillion won) to Asiana Airlines after the carrier’s acquisition deal...

British Airways parent strives to raise €2.75 billion

British Airways owner International Airlines Group (IAG) has placed new shares to prop up the group’s shrinking ba...

China Eastern Airlines Airbus A350XWB taking off in Shanghai

9 of top 10 airline stocks are Chinese, gauge shows

Bloomberg’s gauge of the airline sector shows that over the past three months, almost all of the ten world’s...

Ryanair sells €850 million bond, the first in three years

Irish budget airline Ryanair sold €850 million bond, its first since 2017. The low-cost carrier’s bond sale i...

Aerial view of Air Asia cruising above Fluffy White Clouds

AirAsia seeks $602 million cash injection

AirAsia Group announced that it was seeking to raise $602 million by the end of 2020, after suffering a painful loss as...

Emirates refunded customers more than $1 billion since March 2020

Emirates has processed more than 1.4 million refund requests and returned more than $1.36 billion since March 2020....

New lifeline for Alitalia: EU approves €200 million aid

The European Union (EU) Commission has approved a grant worth €200 million for Italian flag carrier Alitalia. The a...

Ryanair sharpens knives against competitors: raises €400 million

Ryanair has placed new ordinary shares and raised approximately €400 million from shareholders to strengthen its ba...

Norwegian Air Shuttle desire new crisis assistance

Norwegian Air Shuttle is still unable to claw its way out of a financial pit of despair. The airline claims it will need...

Qatar Airways delays Airbus deliveries, still talking with Boeing

Qatar Airways reached an agreement with Airbus to defer deliveries of the airplanes it has on order. Meanwhile, the carr...

Aeroflot expects state guarantees in $940 million loan

Aeroflot Group received a $107 million (RUB7.9 billion) government subsidy and expects to obtain the state guaran...

Struggling Avianca to get up to $370 million state loan

Fighting-for-survival Columbian airline Avianca is about to get the government's support. Colombian government will...

Emirates gets $2 billion injection from Dubai government

The government of Dubai is in rush to rescue Emirate airlines, the flag carrier of the United Arab Emirates, by providin...

China’s domestic flights nearly recovered, US remains 45% down

An air traffic assessment released by EUROCONTROL revealed staggering differences in domestic flight recovery throughout...

Air New Zealand suffers first loss since 2002

Air New Zealand has reported its first annual loss since 2002. The air carrier declared a pretax loss of €48.8 mill...

JetMS: We are seeing a strong recovery in business aviation

During the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic, aviation’s future seemed bleak. While airlines are still not operating at full...

airBaltic Airbus A220-300 YL-CSE landing at Moscow Sheremetyevo I

airBaltic half-year losses balloon despite record start to 2020

Despite a record-breaking start to the year, airBaltic, much like the rest of the industry, lost a lot of money due to t...

Virgin Atlantic Airbus A330 landing at Miami International Airpor

Virgin Atlantic secures funds to avoid collapse in September

Virgin Atlantic is seemingly stepping out of deep water, as creditors approved a crucial rescue plan that secured its me...

UAE companies to get U.S sanctions for aiding blacklisted airline

The United States imposed sanctions on two United Arab Emirates-based companies for providing material support to Irania...

Lufthansa subsidiaries to get vital financial injection

The German Economic Stabilization Fund (WSF) has approved financial support for German flag-carrier Lufthansa subsidiari...

Sweden rejects Norwegian credit guarantee

Having survived a near-death experience during the COVID-19 lockdown, low-cost carrier Norwegian seems to be struggling...

easyJet to close three British bases

The British low-cost carrier easyJet will close its bases in London-Stansted, London-Southend, and Newcastle from Septem...

Azul showcases $186 million cash increase amid losses

Brazilian airline Azul revealed a net increase in cash during Q2 FY2021 while avoiding any new loans....

Cathay Pacific buries “meaningful recovery” prospect for long

After facing the consequences of social unrest in the city of Hong Kong, Cathay Pacific took the full brunt of the coron...

Air Arabia’s 2020 loses reach $46 million

Air Arabia said it witnessed the full impact of the global COVID-19 pandemics within the past three months, as the losse...

B747-400F nose-loader liveried and operational on Magma Aviation

AviaAM Leasing, part of the Avia Solutions Group, has announced the purchase of a Boeing 747-400F nose-loader aircraft w...

ALC: almost 60% of airlines got lease payment deferrals

Despite the fact that Air Lease Corporation (ALC) agreed on an abundance of lease payment deferrals, the lessor managed...

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Trembling Fortress: Accelerating Shifts in Aircraft Leasing

Greenpeace to sue Dutch government over KLM bailout

Warning from Airbus: voluntary departures might not be enough

Brazil proposes a $376 million injection to Azul Airlines

Asiana receives $2B injection from S. Korea after HDC deal fails

British Airways parent strives to raise €2.75 billion

9 of top 10 airline stocks are Chinese, gauge shows

Ryanair sells €850 million bond, the first in three years

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Ryanair sharpens knives against competitors: raises €400 million

Norwegian Air Shuttle desire new crisis assistance

Qatar Airways delays Airbus deliveries, still talking with Boeing

Aeroflot expects state guarantees in $940 million loan

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