Martin Leo Rivers

Full article on forbes.com Ryanair, Europe’s largest low-cost carrier, has sounded a resounding note of optimism about the UK aviation mar...

Full article on economist.com The International Air Transport Association (IATA) was founded in 1945 to unify and promote the interests of...

Full article on economist.com Having one loss-making state-owned airline is bad enough. What, then, of a government that wants two? Earli...

Full article in PDF format When Estonian Air was ordered by the European Commission to pay back more than €85 million of illegal state aid...

Full article in PDF format Russia’s annexation of Crimea in 2014 opened a dark chapter in the history of Ukraine’s civil aviation sector, ...

Full article in PDF format Amid a recent flurry of activity in the low-cost long-haul sector, one new operator stands out as relatively un...

Full article on forbes.com WOW Air has confirmed its intention to launch Asian flights during a new wave of long-haul expansion in 2019, b...

Full article on forbes.com Wizz Air, the central and eastern European low-cost carrier, has unveiled plans for a dedicated UK subsidiary t...

Full article on forbes.com With a score of 29 out of 100 in Transparency International’s Corruption Perceptions Index – placing it 131st o...

Full article in PDF format Looking back, 2015 seems like an unfortunate time to have launched an airline in Kazakhstan, the central Asian...

Full article in PDF format When Libya’s globally-recognised Government of National Accord (GNA) was signed into existence in December 2015...

Full article in PDF format Four years after the European Union tried and failed to impose its Emissions Trading System (ETS) on the rest o...

Full article on economist.com News that a domestic flight operated by Afriqiyah Airways, a state-owned Libyan airline, has been hijacked a...

Full article in PDF format News that Somalia’s presidential and legislative elections have been postponed until November came as no surpri...

Full article in PDF format Last December, an Airbus A310 freighter ploughed into houses after overshooting the runway at Mbuji-Mayi Airpo...

Full article on economist.com Back in the 1990s, British Airways, the nation’s flag-carrier, proclaimed itself to be “The World’s Favourit...

Full article in PDF format While everyone expected that the lifting of nuclear sanctions against Iran would unleash a flurry of deal-makin...

Full article in PDF format: page 24/25 & cover In December 2011, shortly before he stepped down as chief executive of Oman Air, I as...

Full article on alarabiya.net Media organizations and aviation analysts have been quick to point the finger of blame at terrorists for the...

Full article in PDF format In the decade following Lebanon's civil war, flag-carrier Middle East Airlines (MEA) failed to post one sin...