Europe

Atlantic Airways has signed a Purchase Agreement with Airbus for two A320neo aircraft, becoming the latest A320neo customer.

Virgin Atlantic has selected 14 A330-900s to replace its A330ceos from 2021, with options to further expand its fleet of wide-body aircraft.

Following the very positive feedback from the market, Airbus has launched the A321XLR to complement its A321neo Family.

Jan Smets, former Governor of the National Bank of Belgium, has been elected member of the Board of Directors of SN Airholding by Deutsche Lufthansa AG, the shareholder of SN Airholding.

The first single-aisle A321neo destined for La Compagnie, an exclusively business-class French airline operating scheduled transatlantic flights, today commenced transatlantic services from Paris Orly Airport to Newark Liberty International Airport.

Today KLM Royal Dutch Airlines initiated its Amsterdam-Las Vegas (LAS) route.

Brussels Airlines will start a four weekly service to the port city on Spain’s southeastern coast, flying on Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Sunday.

Under the agreement, the Government of Greenland will pay DKK277 million in cash for SAS’ 37.5% shareholding in the Greenland based airline group.

Flybe has today announced that Christine Ourmières-Widener has decided to step down from her role as Chief Executive Officer of the regional airline.

Ryanair said that a short-haul capacity growth and the absence of Easter in Q4 led to a 6% fare decline, which stimulated 7% traffic growth to over 139m