Daily Aviation Brief – 16/03/2021
Acumen Aviation Newsletters:
Acumen Aviation and CMS business school , Jain (Deemed-to-be-University) Launch One Year Post Graduate
Program in Aircraft Leasing & Financing: http://bit.ly/3qC87TJ
Certificate Program Aircraft Leasing & Financing: https://bit.ly/3a0z6Uk
China Aviation Industry Newsletter 15 March: http://bit.ly/3qIu8Ak
India Aviation Industry Newsletter 15 March: http://bit.ly/3qPDE4y
Irish Aircraft Leasing Newsletter 15 March: http://bit.ly/30K8FMS
Irish Commercial Aircraft Update 15 March: http://bit.ly/3trn25b
North American Newsletter 15 March: http://bit.ly/3tmjGQE
Irish Aviation Research Institute Blog Posts:
Condor to operate on behalf of DHL Express on Leipzig-Shannon Route: http://bit.ly/3qGX1gc
Hi Fly operates inaugural Airbus A330-900 into Dublin: http://bit.ly/3qGO9XT
Aircraft Update:
G-CKWP Boeing 787-9 c/n 63318 Norwegian Air UK Ferried Stavanger-Shannon 12/03/21.
G-CKWS Boeing 787-9 c/n 63319 Norwegian Air UK Ferried Stavanger-Shannon 12/03/21.
N799AS Boeing 737-8Q8 c/n 32799 AerSale Ferried Goodyear-Kelowna International 04/03/21 for freighter conversion.
OE-ICE Airbus A320-232 c/n 6311 Wilmington Trust Services Registered at Tallinn 11/03/21 ex VT-TTD.
Global Aviation News:
American Airlines Announces Upsize of AAdvantage Financing To $10.0 Billion and Pricing of Senior Secured Notes
Read more: https://newsroom.aviator.aero/american-airlines-announces-upsize-of-aadvantage-financing-to-10-0-billion-and-pricing-of-senior-secured-notes/
Azul Announces Approval of Shares Repurchase Plan
Read more: https://newsroom.aviator.aero/azul-announces-approval-of-shares-repurchase-plan/
Budget carrier AirAsia expects to start air taxi business in 2022, CEO says
Read more: https://www.thenationalnews.com/business/aviation/budget-carrier-airasia-expects-to-start-air-taxi-business-in-2022-ceo-says-1.1179209
Confidence in flying at highest since start of pandemic, suggests UBS
Read more: https://www.proactiveinvestors.co.uk/companies/news/943737/confidence-in-flying-at-highest-since-start-of-pandemic-suggests-ubs-943737.html
Covid-19 impact on European Aviation Eurocontrol Comprehensive Assessment
Read more: https://www.eurocontrol.int/sites/default/files/2021-03/covid19-eurocontrol-comprehensive-air-traffic-assessment-110321.pdf
Etihad Airways sees more travel corridors in summer with vaccines easing restrictions, CEO says
Read more: https://www.thenationalnews.com/business/aviation/etihad-airways-sees-more-travel-corridors-in-summer-with-vaccines-easing-restrictions-ceo-says-1.1177383
Find out which countries are welcoming US tourists back
Read more: https://www.wishtv.com/news/coronavirus/find-out-which-countries-are-welcoming-us-tourists-back-2/
India’s first woman airline CEO has ambitious goals. Can she take off?
Read more: https://www.forbesindia.com/article/take-one-big-story-of-the-day/indias-first-woman-airline-ceo-has-ambitious-goals-can-she-take-off/66783/1
Irish Aviation News:
AAIU Fourth Interim Statement: Accident Sikorsky S-92A, registration (EI-ICR) at Black Rock Co. Mayo, 14 March 2017 at 00.46 hrs
Read more: http://www.aaiu.ie/node/1513
AerCap’s Takeover Of GECAS Is A Big Consolidation Step In The Aircraft Leasing Sector
Read more: https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnstrickland/2021/03/11/aercaps-takeover-of-gecas-is-a-big-consolidation-step-in-the-aircraft-leasing-sector/?sh=5c2180724bea
Avolon delivers one Airbus A320neo to Vistara
Read more: https://www.avolon.aero/newsroom-and-thoughts/seventh-avolon-aircraft-on-lease-to-vistara
British Airways CEO Sean Doyle Presses U.K. for Clear Plan to Reopen Travel
Read more : https://www.bloombergquint.com/onweb/british-airways-presses-u-k-for-clear-plan-to-reopen-travel
Ireland is ‘drowning in airline vouchers’ and people will soon look to cash them in – Eoghan Corry
Read more: https://www.newstalk.com/news/ireland-is-drowning-in-airline-vouchers-and-people-will-soon-look-to-cash-them-in-eoghan-corry-1164206
Lockdown has brought ‘upsurge in mental health emergencies’, say Northern Ireland’s Air Ambulance crews
Read more: https://news.sky.com/story/covid-19-lockdown-and-isolation-has-brought-upsurge-in-mental-health-emergencies-says-air-ambulance-crews-12240032
May could be a game-changing month for travel as ‘vaccine corridors’ redraw holiday map
Read more: https://www.independent.ie/life/travel/travel-talk/may-could-be-a-game-changing-month-for-travel-as-vaccine-corridors-redraw-holiday-map-40183942.html
Ryanair Launches New Dublin To Rhodes (Greece) Route For Summer ‘21
Read more: https://corporate.ryanair.com/news/ryanair-launches-new-dublin-to-rhodes-greece-route-for-summer-21/?market=ie
Ryanair Return to Belfast City Airport, Launching 8 New Routes for Summer ‘21
Read more: https://www.belfastcityairport.com/news/ryanair-belfast-city-airport-8-routes-summer2021
US DOT Notice of Action Taken re: Aer Lingus (U.K) Limited and Aer Lingus Limited
Read more: https://www.regulations.gov/document/DOT-OST-2020-0250-0006
Tweet Picks:
@ByERussell AerCap’s $30B acquisition of GECAS is a bet that cost-conscious airlines will be shifting more broadly to leasing aircraft rather than owning after the crisis, writes @munnikrishnan.
@ByERussell “Austin is regularly up there in the top regions for economic growth. It makes sense to invest in this market now, especially when you don’t need your 12 flights to Dallas.”
@ByERussell “I’m sick and tired of receiving aircraft that didn’t work,” Emirates president Sir Tim Clark tells @jonostrower. Clark points a finger at the Boeing board for the planemaker’s commercial aircraft woes.
@ByERussell JetBlue is adding another route in its Connecticut expansion: @Bradley_Airport to Miami on an A320 from June 24. JetBlue will compete with American on the route. $JBLU.
@ByERussell Jetstar will move 6 of the 25 A320s it has in Japan to Australia, the move takes advantage of the stronger Australian domestic market. @lewisharperr.
Video Picks:
AerCap to Buy GE Capital Aviation Services
https://youtu.be/QnCHbtljaYs
Cathay Pacific may only return to profitability in the second half of 2022: DBS
https://youtu.be/K3AHnM1LiNc
Deja vu for travel agents, Pat Dawson of the Irish Travel Agents Association on Saturday with Katie Hannon, RTE radio 1
https://youtu.be/7WFXRf_w3vQ
J.P. Morgan analyst’s outlook for the airline industry
https://youtu.be/F4XksKAvm5c
Market reacts to big headlines from Boeing, American Airlines, Southwest
https://youtu.be/9tXdnftzWYw