MIAMI – Finnair (AY) has found a new way to finance its 17th Airbus A350 on order by entering a lease financing agreement with JLSP Holding Ireland Ltd, which shall be both the lessor and the lender.
According to Aviator Aero, the change is part of AY’s efforts to restore itself and navigate the current crisis impacting global air trade by achieving cost savings and pursuing traditional and conventional liquidity enhancement schemes.
Under this scheme, the aircraft is purchased by a third party and then leased back to the airline. According to
aviator.aero, the A350 concerned by this plan is the 17th aircraft ordered by AY and to be delivered mid-2022 while the lease shall begin by the end of the current year including a storage period awaiting entry into service sometime in 2022.
MIAMI – While tourism ground to a halt last year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Qatar Airways (QR) never stopped flying. It’s spent the last year transporting more cargo than ever before and reuniting people around the world with their homes.
The airline also expanded its global footprint, launching new destinations in the United States and partnering with Oneworld’s newest member, Alaska Airlines (AS).
Mark Drusch, Qatar Airways’ SVP of Revenue Management, Alliances and Strategy
“The growth in North America and the U.S., in particular, is based on the fact that we decided to continue flying and not leave our customers behind,” Mark Drusch, Qatar Airways’ SVP of Revenue Management, Alliances and Strategy, told
MIAMI – United Airlines (UA) will expand its services to the Aloha State this summer, announcing today that it will offer the only nonstop route between Orange County’s John Wayne Airport (SNA) and Honolulu’s Daniel K. Inouye Airport (HNL).
Customers can begin purchasing tickets for the route beginning February 13, with the first flight scheduled for May 6.
The flight will be serviced by a Boeing 737-700, departing Orange County at 8:30 a.m. local time and arriving in Honolulu at 11:30 a.m. The return flight will depart Honolulu at 12:50 p.m. local time, arriving in Orange County at 9:10 p.m.
The route joins the Chicago-based airline’s previously announced service between Chicago O’Hare (ORD) and Kona International Airport (KOA), and Newark-Liberty Airport (EWR) and Kahului International Airport (OGG) in Maui. UA will operate a total of 21 different routes to Hawaii this summer.
MIAMI – In order to face possible threats, the US military conducts routine testing on GPS that affects all ATM, CNS, and ADS-B systems, the latter which reports an aircraft location to Air Traffic Control (ATC).
The above acronyms ATM and CNS stand for Air Traffic Management and Communication Navigation Surveillance. An FAA commissioned report – Operational Impacts of Intentional GPS Interference – of March 2018 states that these jamming exercises are on the increase and create serious problems to air traffic control and commercial airlines.
Photo: Matthew Calise/Airways
Moreover, GPS jamming extends well beyond the testing area, affecting signals as far as 400nm (nautical miles) and up to FL400 (40000ft) and above.