Articles by Jakob Wert

Bombardier Inc. has announced the sale of its Canadair Regional Jet aircraft programme to Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) on Tuesday. Production of the aircraft type will end in 2020. Mitsubishi will take … [read more]

Lufthansa Group has announced changes to its future airline strategy. The German flag-carrier plans to adjust the operations of Brussels Airlines and low-cost carrier Eurowings. The unprofitable budget carrier Eurowings will drop … [read more]

Aviation investment firm Indigo Partners has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for a total of 50 Airbus A321XLR at Paris Air Show 2019 on Wednesday. The MoU includes a new order … [read more]

International Airlines Group has signed a Letter of Intend (LoI) for 200 Boeing 737 MAX jets at Paris Air Show 2019 on Tuesday. The intended order includes the Boeing 737 MAX 8 … [read more]

Ryanair Holdings has today announced the launch of a new subsidiary, called Malta Air. It is a joint-venture agreement with the Maltese Government, which sees the new airline start operations in its … [read more]

Brazil’s civil aviation authority ANAC has suspended all flight operations of Avianca Brazil, as a ‘precautionary measure’. Before this stop of operations on Friday, the airline was only carrying out about 30 … [read more]

American aircraft maker Boeing has announced that Embraer’s passenger aircraft division will be integrated into the global Boeing brand. The Brazilian manufacturer for regional jets will change its branding to “Boeing Brasil – … [read more]

Andreas Nikolaus “Niki” Lauda, three-times Formula One world champion and founder of several airlines, has passed away at the age of 70 on Monday, following a period of health issues, his family … [read more]