Colombia’s Viva Air Wants 28 More Airbus Planes By 2025
The Colombian low-cost carrier Viva Air has an aggressive plan to expand in the next few years. It plans to take on new aircraft, to increase its fleet to 50 units by 2025. It will push the Colombian city of Medellin into a hub, and lower the fares across Latin America. Simple Flying spoke with […]
How Chile’s Sky Airline Became An All-neo Operator In 15 Months
The Chilean low-cost carrier Sky Airline is the second operator worldwide to have a 100% A320neo capacity. More impressively, it has transitioned into becoming a full neo operator in only 15 months, gaining a few extra benefits along the way. Looking at Sky Airline’s fleet Sky Airline is a low-cost operator which started flying in […]
GOL building back domestic network to near pre-COVID-19 level
Brazilian LCC GOL expects to operate 78% of its pre-COVID-19 pandemic fleet in the fourth quarter as it works toward restoring its full domestic network by year-end. GOL and its rival Azul Brazilian Airlines have been adding back capacity faster than airlines operating elsewhere as non-corporate demand within Brazil continues to steadily climb. Nevertheless, Brazil’s […]
Air Canada’s Rouge returns with focus on North American routes
Air Canada’s leisure-focused Rouge subsidiary, grounded by the COVID-19 pandemic, is restarting routes as the carrier seeks to tap into what little demand there is as the pandemic and related restrictions continue to keep many Canadian passengers home. «Air Canada Rouge remains an important part of our overall strategy in rebuilding Air Canada’s global network,” […]
DHL Express Increases Fleet Capacity with Boeing Converted Freighters
DHL Express and Boeing [NYSE: BA] announced that it will add four 767-300 Boeing Converted Freighters (BCF) as part of the logistics company’s efforts to continue modernizing and growing its fleet with cost-efficient and reliable freighters. This step is part of DHL’s effort to modernize its long-haul intercontinental fleet in order to fly more eco-friendly […]
Delta begins progressive return of aircraft to service
Delta Air Lines (DL) has begun the process of reactivating both narrowbody and widebody aircraft to its active fleet in recent days. The move comes amid Delta increasing daily flight volumes to cope with rising demand in air travel throughout the United States in the wake of the COVID-19 virus. While Delta has already relaunched […]
Brazil airline Gol has room to slash fleet to counter coronavirus impact
Brazilian airline Gol Linhas Aereas Inteligentes has the flexibility to reduce its fleet from 130 Boeing 737 planes to 100 by letting leases expire, executives said on Tuesday while discussing steps to cope with impact of the coronavirus outbreak. The struggles of Gol, Brazil’s largest domestic carrier, which has grounded all but 10 planes and […]
Lufthansa plans 4500 new hires in 2020
Lufthansa Group is planning to make more than 4500 new hires in Germany, Austria and Switzerland in 2020, including 300 resulting from the Boeing 777 fleet integration at SWISS. Many of the hires — some 3000 — will be in Germany and are the result of a combination of staff replacement and job increases. About […]
BA will still have 777-200ERs in 2030
British Airways will turn next year to replacing its large fleet of older-generation Boeing 777s, but indicates it will retain some of the aircraft until at least 2030. The IAG-owned carrier has 46 in the fleet – comprising three 777-200s and 43 777-200ERs. It will phase out the three -200s in 2020 by replacing them […]
IAG still finalising 737 Max’s place in short-haul fleet plan
IAG has yet to clarify the mix of its future Boeing 737 Max fleet, as it continues discussions to firm up the tentative agreement for 200 of the type unveiled in June this year. The company has set out a requirement to replace 225 short-haul aircraft beginning with 10 in 2022, ramping up to peak […]
