Flybe’s Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Jim French made the following comments on last week's news the UK government is going to evaluate the idea originally proposed by London Lord Mayor Boris Johnson: “Flybe supports any infrastructure investment that improves connectivity for the British travelling public and will respond to the proposed formal consultation in [...]

Yesterday came news from PrivatAir that it has ordered five CS100s plus another five options.  This is an order that carries more weight than it appears.  Take a look here to see what we are taking about.  This company undertakes operations in niche markets for some very big names in the business.  Manifestly the CS100 [...]

Airbus delivered 534 commercial aircraft to 88 customers and booked 1,419 net orders in 2011. This makes it the most successful year in the company’s history.  Last year was the tenth year in a row which Airbus increased production.  The 534 deliveries beat the previous record set in 2010 by 24 aircraft (4.7%).  Deliveries included [...]

Just in from Airbus – "Airbus has increased the average list prices of its aircraft by 3.9 per cent, except for the A320neo Family price which rises by an average of 6.1 per cent. The new pricing is effective from January 1st 2012. “Our new pricing reflects the strong demand for our modern, eco-efficient aircraft [...]

FlightGlobal reports that Etihad has cancelled its A350-1000 order.  It was an order for six of these airplanes. We are not too surprised by this decision.  Etihad's recent decision to order ten 787-9's was an important decision.   The A350-1000 seats 350 people while the 787-9 seats up to 290.  That is a 17% gap in [...]

When hearing of rapid growth among the Gulf airlines, one typically thinks of Emirates or Qatar.  These two airlines are masters at attracting media attention. But there is another very successful airline in the region that is doing great while making very little noise. Etihad Airways carried a record 8.29m passengers in 2011, a 17% [...]

Ryanair is introducing a €0.25 fee per passenger for bookings made from 17  January to cover the costs of the EU’s new ETS tax.  Ryanair claims that the impact of ETS on Ryanair passengers at €0.25 per one way booking will be less than the impact upon those travelling with other EU airlines. Ryanair says [...]

Announcing its intention to cut flights to Paris and London, the airline cites ETS and APD first and then talks about fuel costs and weaker demand.  The gnomes in Brussels won't care of course.  They won't feel any pain.  Which is not an option for the Greeks – they are running short on Aspirin. There [...]

Embraer had a very good 2011. It delivered 32 commercial and 50 business jets during 4Q11. This means closing out the year with 105 airliners and 99 bizjets delivered. A highlight from 2011 was 124 sales of E-Jets, which was an increase of 28% over 2010. At the end of the year, the firm order [...]

The A380 crack news is overblown and it is important to source the loudest voices. It happens that the most vociferous voices are in Australia. Take a look at these two sources; link 1 and link 2. Given the state of relations between Qantas and some of its unions, is there any wonder where the [...]