Alan Dron

KLM Cityhopper, the regional subsidiary of the Dutch flag carrier, is leasing in extra capacity over the northern hemisphere summer season.

European LCC easyJet expects to be one of the fastest-growing airlines in Europe in summer 2024, as it taps into continuing strong demand for leisure travel.

A deadline approaches for external parties to lodge “expressions of interest” in the island nation’s flag-carrier.

Ascend Airways intends to start operations imminently but finds its growth plans crimped by a lack of available aircraft in the marketplace.

Two major European carriers have announced plans to keep their pipeline of new pilots full in the coming years.

Pakistan and Bangladesh have become the two countries that owe the most money—more than $700 million—to overseas airlines, according to IATA.

UK leisure operator Jet2 has reinforced a positive outlook for its summer prospects.

Saudi Arabian LCC flynas has issued a request for proposals for 30 widebody aircraft and expects to announce a winner for the contract later in 2024.

Royal Jordanian has never had an easy time in business. Geopolitics have frequently intervened to make the airline’s operating environment more difficult than that of rivals. And it finds itself in competition not only with Arab airlines with some of the world’s highest standards of inflight service, but also, increasingly, with low-cost carriers.

European airlines, trade unions and air traffic control (ATC) bodies fear that shortages of ATC capacity over the continent will continue for the foreseeable future.