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Airline Developments
Airline
FlyGuinea
Guinea
Status
Launch Operations
2026 Q2
Airline
FlyGuinea
Guinea
Status
New model E170 or E190
2026 Q2
Airline
FlyGuinea
Guinea
Status
New airline Startup
2025
Airline
Proflight Zambia
Zambia
Status
Added type CRJ440
2025 Jun 23
Airline
Aero Contractors
Nigeria
Status
Reinstated B735
2025 Jun 30
Airline
Air Mauritius
Mauritius
Status
New model A333
2025 Sep
Airline
Kuber Airlines
Nepal
Status
New model AT76
TBA
Airline
United Nigeria Airlines
Nigeria
Status
New model B738
2026 Feb
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Aircraft Operator
Africa Charter Airline
South Africa
Flight Provider
BidAir Cargo
South Africa
Start
B737-400
2025 Jul 04
Aircraft Operator
Fly2Sky
Bulgaria
Flight Provider
SkyUp Europe
Malta
Start
A321ceo
2025 Jul 04
Aircraft Operator
Heston Airlines
Lithuania
Flight Provider
Valletta Airlines
Malta
Start
A320ceo
2025 Jul 04
Aircraft Operator
Windrose Air
Ukraine
Flight Provider
VAN Air Europe
Czechia
Start
A319ceo
2025 Jul 04
Aircraft Operator
Flyyo
Romania
Flight Provider
Arkia Israeli Airlines
Israel
Start
A320ceo
2025 Jul 02
Aircraft Operator
KlasJet
Lithuania
Flight Provider
El Al Israel Airlines
Israel
Start
B737-800
2025 Jul 01
Aircraft Operator
Avion Express Lithuania
Lithuania
Flight Provider
Tunisair
Tunisia
Start
A320ceo
2025 Jun 30
Aircraft Operator
Fly Lili
Romania
Flight Provider
Israir Airlines
Israel
Start
A320ceo
2025 Jun 30
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Forecasts
Mid-year progress report
2025 Jul 07
For many airlines, combination of weakening of US dollar and oil prices well below last year’s levels provides significant cost savings for airlines, flowing straight through to bottom line and likely to continue through rest of 2025.
Markets
Africa airlines burden
2025 Jul 07
According to AFRAA, Africa’s aviation market projected to more than double by 2043, reaching 345m pax annually at average annual growth of 3.7%; Africa airlines growth continues with burden of higher costs than most of world especially fuel, nav, ticket taxes, airport/ground fees, and governments blocking up to 70% of airlines' funds.
Markets
Airline cabin seats
2025 Jul 07
With airlines needing more than 8m seats during next decade, leading seat makers considering re-use of underlying designs instead of developing seats from scratch, as seat manufacture assembles up to 3,000 parts from 50 suppliers in 15 countries, complicated by certification bottlenecks and bespoke seat features.
Markets
Dispruptive re-forecasting
2025 Jul 07
While most companies mode during disruptive forecast as either (1) wait and see or (2) front-load or (3) commit minimum, staying prepared to expect disruptions during forecast cycle by building flexibility into operations provides key to agile re-forecasting response while conditions evolve.
Markets
Top ten MidEast airports
2025 Jul 07
Per quantity of seats: Dubai DXB 5.1m, Doha DOH 2.9m, Jeddah JED 2.3m, Riyahd RUH 2.1m, Abu Dhabi AUH 1.5m, Tel Aviv TLV 1.0m, Kuwait KWI 1.0m, Sharjah SHV 0.8m, Muscat MCT 0.8m, Damman DMM 0.7m.
Markets
Airline retailing growth
2025 Jul 07
Pax willing to pay for what they care about, personalizaiton = better experience, book travel components separately, digital presence effectively sells products, airline websites and apps to dominate bookings, modern tech brings pricing transparency and flexibility, digital ability speeds up decisions, social media inspires travel.
Frontiers
Takeoff performance monitor
2025 Jul 03
New EASA proposal for take-off performance monitoring system applicable to new-build aircraft to check for errors in take-off parameters esp FMS inputs, aircraft’s position at beginning of take-off run, real-time monitoring of take-off performance.
Markets
Aircraft orders and backlog
2025 Jul 03
Commercial aircraft orders up by almost 900% in 2025 May YoY, pushing total backlog to record 16,073, according to ADS Group.
Forecasts
Freighter shortage 2040
2025 Jul 03
According to Atlas Air, growth of widebody freighter capacity to struggle with demand growth as airlines retire older aircraft during lack of new freighters entering market; B777-200F production ends 2027 and next gen A350F and B777-8F deliveries start late 2027 or early 2027.
Forecasts
A220-500 similar to A320neo
2025 Jul 03
A220-500 development as stretched A220-300 with higher winglets and improved version of PW1500G, with slightly increased thrust and possibly enhanced compressor, makes per-seat-mile fuel consumption of A220-500 same as A320neo.
Markets
Cherry export season
2025 Jul 02
Normally annual highlight for airlines, this year’s North America cherry crop smallest in 15 years, 38% lower YoY, compounded by fewer farm workers, along with typically robust demand hesitancy for US crops in East Asia.
Frontiers
Next-gen turboprop wing
2025 Jul 02
Herwingt designing lightweight low-drag wing capable of supporting hybrid-electric powertrain, targeting wing 15% more fuel efficient and 20% lighter at component level than current state-of-the-art designs.
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