Cathy Buyck
Contributor - Europe

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Airlines

Low-cost Airline Segment Keeps Driving European Growth

Discount carriers continue to excel in Europe while business aviation and all-cargo lose market share.
Airlines

Brexit Uncertainty Dampening Demand at EasyJet

The UK-headquartered LCC maintains it is well prepared for any Brexit outcome.
Aircraft

TUI Places Initial Cost of Max Groundings at €200 Million

The world’s largest travel group anticipates the new Boeing narrowbodies will not return to service before mid-July.
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Airlines

Wow Air Ends Operations after Funding Failure

The Icelandic ultra-low-cost-carrier joins a rapidly growing list of airline closures in Europe.
Aircraft

Fokker Aircraft Transactions Continue To Dwindle

Sweden’s Amapola now ranks as the largest Fokker 50 operator after adding six of the type last year.
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Airlines

Wow Air Touts Long-Term Sustainability After Debtholder Deal

Rescue talks with both Indigo Partners and Icelandair Group collapsed last week.
Aircraft

Norwegian Scrambles to Replace Grounded Max Capacity

Some Boeing 787s that the LCC had preemptively parked to mitigate Trent 1000 problems will return to service.
Airlines

EU Settles On Post-Brexit Traffic Rights for UK Airlines

Cargo carriers receive fifth freedom rights beyond the EU for five months.
ATC

Air Traffic Control Delays Continue Upward Creep in Europe

A recent Eurocontrol report showed a 46.6 percent increase in total air traffic flow management delays in February.
Accidents

France’s BEA To Analyze Recorders from Ill-fated 737 Max

Authorities transported the Ethiopian Airlines recorders from Addis Ababa to Paris for investigation on the request of the Ethiopian CAA.
Airports

Istanbul’s New Mega-airport To Be Fully Operational in April

The transfer of the operations, fleet, and equipment from Istanbul Atatürk International Airport to the new venue will take two days.
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Accidents

EASA Suspends Boeing 737 Max Operations In and To Europe

The European safety agency joins China and several other jurisdictions as groundings of the Max mount.
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Aircraft

Airbus Inks Single Contract for Four Aircraft in 2019

Deliveries accelerate for the European OEM, as it ships 39 airplanes in January and 49 in February.
Airlines

European Airlines Highlight Environmental Costs of ATC Woes

Strikes, technical failures, and airspace inefficiencies have led to 1 million metric tons of avoidable CO2 emissions since 2014.
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Airlines

Air France-KLM To Launch Medium-Haul Tender This Year

The Franco-Dutch airline group will allow leases to expire on three A380s by 2021.
Airlines

Air France-KLM Strengthens Group Structure

A new governance structure includes the reappointment of Pieter Elbers as CEO of KLM.
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Airlines

Lawmakers Rebuff Bid To Cap UK Fights to Europe Post-Brexit

The European Commission had sought to freeze UK airline capacity at this year’s levels and prohibit code sharing.
Aircraft

Airbus Terminates A380 Program

The last two A380s, for Emirates Airline, will roll off the assembly line in 2021.
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Airlines

Belgian Airspace to Close for Inbound and Outbound Traffic

All flights to and from Belgium will be suspended for 24 hours due to a national strike affecting staffing levels at the ANSP.
Aircraft

Britain’s Aerospace Industry Declines On Brexit Uncertainty

UK aerospace industry production fell in 2018 in spite of record global aircraft deliveries.
Airlines

Alitalia Stresses Continued Improvement in Passenger Revenue

Progress on the sale of the Italian flag carrier remains unclear, as Air France-KLM weighs withdrawing from a rescue deal.
Aircraft

Norwegian’s Talks To Spin Off Leasing Arm Include Airbus

Plans call for Norwegian Air Shuttle to form a leasing joint venture with a “very strong” Asian company.
Airlines

Thomas Cook Looking To Exit Airline Business

The European travel group seeks to sell all or some of its airlines, including Condor in Germany, to shore up its finances.
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Aircraft

Germania Halts Operations and Files for Insolvency

The Berlin-based airline is the latest on a growing list of recent airline failures in Europe.
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Airlines

Ryanair’s Michael O’Leary To Become Group CEO

Europe’s largest low-cost carrier overhauls its corporate structure in an effort to deliver cost and operating efficiencies across its subsidiaries.
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Airlines

Air France-KLM Further Consolidates Airline Brands

The group abandons Hop! brand and livery to integrate it into Air France.
Airlines

Air Italy Scales Back Intercontinental Network

The airline will end services to Delhi and Bombay, postpones launch of controversial Chicago route.
Airlines

IAG To Sell Its Stake in Norwegian Air Shuttle

The British Airways parent confirms that it does not plan to bid for the low-cost carrier.
Aircraft

SAS Takes Three Airbus A321LRs from Air Lease

The Scandinavian airline intends to deploy the narrowbody on intercontinental routes.
Aircraft

Boeing’s Autonomous Air Taxi Completes First Flight

The eVTOL passenger air vehicle achieved a controlled takeoff, hover, and landing.
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