AirlinesAigle Azur CEO Yvelin resigns after shareholder row, receivership Aigle Azur CEO Frantz Yvelin has resigned from his post, after facing down a shareholder coup and seeing the airline placed into receivership.
“I resign,” Yvelin said on BFM TV Sept. 4. “I have done absolutely everything I could for the past two years.”
LinkEmirates CEO: Fleet review stopped until engines are reliable Emirates blasted engine manufacturers GE Aviation and Rolls-Royce for performance and reliability shortfalls and has shelved confirmation of large outstanding Airbus and Boeing orders until it has clarity about schedules and guarantees. “I am a little bit irritated that we have to deal with quality control and design issues,” Emirates Airline president Tim Clark said at a briefing in London Sept. 4.
LinkRyanair’s Michael O’Leary becomes Group CEO After more than two decades at the head of Ireland-based LCC Ryanair, Michael O’Leary has exchanged his role as CEO of the airline for a similar position at parent company Ryanair Holdings.
O’Leary is one of the few airline chief executives whose name and face became inextricably linked with the company he headed.
LinkAlaska weighs A321neo, Boeing 737 fleet mix Dedicated Boeing operator Alaska Airlines continues to be coy about whether it will hold onto any of its Airbus aircraft acquired in its Virgin America purchase, but one of the airline’s top executives acknowledges the A321neo has advantages not found in the 737 family. “You could argue that the A319s and A320s are sort of a redundant products for us to the 737-700 and -800,” Alaska CEO Brandon Pedersen said at the Cowen Global Transportation Conference
LinkWizz Air expands capacity in Poland Central and Eastern European LCC Wizz Air plans to expand its Polish operations and will base four additional Airbus A320 family aircraft in the country from summer 2020.
With the latest expansion, Wizz Air will have 30 aircraft based in Poland, offering 193 routes to 28 countries from nine Polish airports.
LinkChina Airlines firms orders for another three 777Fs China Airlines has firmed orders with Boeing for three additional 777 Freighters, finalising a previously announced agreement between Boeing and the Taiwanese carrier.
Boeing announced at the Paris air show in June that China Airlines intended to acquire six of the widebody freighters. The airline firmed orders for three of those 777Fs in July and has now closed a deal to purchase the remaining three.
LinkEmirates begins A380 retirements to support in-service fleet Emirates is implementing its Airbus A380 retirement plan which will see its fleet size peak shortly before declining to around 90-100 aircraft by the mid-2020s.
The airline, which took delivery of its first A380 in 2008, is to cut its orders for the type from 162 to 123 in the wake of Airbus’s decision to axe the programme in 2020. Cirium fleet data shows that the current fleet stands at 112 aircraft.
LinkAir Canada steps in as Brussels drops Toronto for Montreal Star Alliance carrier Brussels Airlines is to open a new transatlantic service to the Canadian city of Montreal next year, but will axe its link to Toronto.
The Toronto-Brussels connection, however, will be picked up by Star Alliance partner Air Canada.
LinkSerious Norwegian 787 Trent failure traced to blade fracture Italian investigators believe blade fracture originating in the intermediate pressure turbine triggered the serious engine failure involving a Norwegian Boeing 787-8 departing Rome Fiumicino on 10 August.
Just 36s after the aircraft took off from runway 16R, bound for Los Angeles, the left-hand Rolls-Royce Trent 1000 engine showed signs of excessive vibration, says the Italian investigation authority ANSV.
LinkAeroflot A330 damaged in ground mishap with 777 One of Aeroflot's Airbus A330-300s appears to have suffered substantial wing damage during a ground incident involving a Royal Flight Boeing 777-300ER.
Social media images purportedly taken on board the A330 (VQ-BMY) indicate that the aircraft sustained left-hand aileron and winglet damage in the collision.
LinkPICTURE: Yakutia unveils commemorative Superjet 100 Russian carrier Yakutia has taken delivery of another Sukhoi Superjet 100, painted in a ceremonial colour scheme.
The "mirror" livery, says the Siberian operator, inverts the normal blue-and-white design which features on Yakutia's fleet. Similar colours have previously been used on a Bombardier Q400.
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