
Often some of the largest clients for aircraft manufacturers aren’t airlines, but leasing firms. These companies then rent their aircraft out to airlines on long term agreements to fill fleet voids rapidly. These firms are foundational to the entire aviation industry but hardly ever make the headlines. However, this latest order by leasing firm Avolon…

Long gone are the days of luxurious domestic European travel. Legacy airlines have complied with the demand of the aviation market for cheap flights aligning what they offer to low-cost airlines. Although what we find on airlines has leveled out, there are still differences in flying one airline rather than another. In this latest review…

Ties strengthen further between Airbus and VietJet. The Southeast Asian airline just a few weeks ago had announced the expansion of its standing Airbus A330neo order, now they have placed a new order in the Airbus books for a substantial number of new generation single aisle aircraft. VietJet Orders 100 New Airbus A321neo at Paris…

From a passenger’s perspective seating can make a flight comfortable or uncomfortable, from an airline’s standpoint it is one of the many factors that make an operation profitable. Light yet comfortable seats allow airlines to save on fuel and therefore increase operating margins and therefore profits. Recaro is among the leading companies in the world…

Air New Zealand is a unique carrier, the conformation of its home country requires its national carrier to operate a vast range of route lengths. In order to adapt to such a need the airline needs to have in its fleet an assortment of aircraft capable of doing so. A jack of all trades on…

The A320 family of aircraft is by far Airbus’ largest success, the cash-cow the firm has built upon to become the massive aircraft manufacturing world leader it now is. The largest aircraft of the A320 family has taken that success to a whole new level and dimension. There’s an endless list of airlines operating the…

Icelandair, Iceland’s national carrier is quite a unique airline in terms of business model. The carrier operates a hybrid business model mainly focusing on intercepting demand for cheap flights between the US and Europe with a rapid stopover in Reykjavik Keflavik international airport. Operating quite a large number of destinations with not all that much…

Delta has steadily grown to become the US’s largest and most profitable airline. From its hubs it transports passengers across the globe. Such a huge operation needs a just as huge fleet to make all operations flow seamlessly day in and day out. Before kicking things off let’s talk about how we got to the…

The landscape of civil aviation has changed massively in the past couple of decades. Gradually the large quad-jets have given way to the highly fuel efficient twin-jets. Not only has this been the case but we’ve also assisted to more and more narrow body planes being used for long range services. This has been possible…

KLM has long used solely Boeing produced planes in its main narrow body fleet. The Dutch national carrier has been a loyal Boeing 737 customer. However, it never bought into the MAX family of the American made narrow body jet, the airline only ordered as far as the NGs. The status quo is about change…