Gabon’s Afrijet adds wet-leased ATR freighter
Afrijet Business Service (J7, Libreville) has wet-leased its first dedicated freighter, an ATR72-500(F), from Switzerland’s Zimex Aviation (XM, Zurich). HB-ABS… Read More »
Nigeria’s Azman Air to add B737NGs, more A340s
Azman Air (AZM, Kano) has acquired three B737-800s as part of its fleet growth strategy aimed at developing Kano into… Read More »
Delta Air Lines withdraws objection to SpiceJet’s FACP
Having received approval from the Indian Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) to codeshare with KLM Royal Dutch Airlines (KL,… Read More »
Chad orders suspension of all scheduled pax flights
Chad has suspended all international and domestic passenger flights for a renewable period of one week from midnight on January… Read More »
Afghanistan’s Kam Air denies Delhi route refusal reports
Private Afghan carrier Kam Air (RQ, Kabul) has dismissed as “fake news” a reported warning from the Afghanistan Civil Aviation… Read More »
Vietnam Airlines agrees to issue $345mn in new shares
Vietnam Airlines (VN, Hanoi) will issue VND8 trillion dong (USD345 million) worth of common shares to existing shareholders “to supplement… Read More »
IAG adjusts structure to protect Aer Lingus’s EU status
IAG International Airlines Group has tweaked its corporate structure to ensure that its Aer Lingus (EI, Dublin Int’l) and Iberia… Read More »
Court approves Rami Levy’s planned Israir acquisition
Beating its January 3 deadline to do so, Tel Aviv District Court approved the sale of Israir (6H, Tel Aviv… Read More »
APOC Aviation opens a new warehouse facility in Singapore
As part of the on-going strategic plan to expand its global footprint, APOC Aviation, the innovative leasing, trading, aircraft component… Read More »
Capacity Test Centre Brussels Airport increases fourfold for testing returning passengers
Thanks to the airport’s own Test Centre, which opened its doors in September, Brussels Airport can quickly respond to the… Read More »
The aviation industry’s ambitious goal: Norwegian aviation to be fossil-free by 2050
Norwegian aviation to be a world leader in climate solutions. That is the goal, according to a recent report from… Read More »
Muscat to dissolve the Oman Aviation Group
Oman’s government has announced the dissolution of the Oman Aviation Group (OAG) with its assets and tasks to be redistributed… Read More »
Qatari embargo set to end amid detente with Saudi bloc
The blockade of Qatar is set to end after Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Bahrain, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) all… Read More »
British Airways set to secure £2.0bn UKEF-backed loan
British Airways (BA, London Heathrow) has secured a GBP2 billion pound (USD2.74 billion) loan partially guaranteed by the United Kingdom’s… Read More »
JetBlue Airways adds first A220
JetBlue Airways (B6, New York JFK) wrapped up 2020 with the delivery of its first A220-300 on December 31. N3008J… Read More »
Lao Airlines suspends international charters to stem COVID
Lao Airlines (QV, Vientiane) has suspended all international charter flights to reduce the risk of a second wave of COVID-19… Read More »
Interups, employees tweak their Air India bid
Interups, which is backed by non-resident Indians (NRIs), has withdrawn its Expression of Interest for Air India (AI, Mumbai Int’l),… Read More »
Emirates now expecting B777X induction in 2023
Emirates (EK, Dubai Int’l) says it does not expect to take delivery of its first B777-9 earlier than 2023, three… Read More »
Pakistan’s PIA faces asset grab in British Virgin Islands
PIA – Pakistan International Airlines (PK, Islamabad Quaid-e-Azam Int’l) could see its assets attached by the High Court of Justice… Read More »
JetBlue receives its first Airbus A220 powered by Pratt & Whitney GTF engines
Pratt & Whitney, a division of Raytheon Technologies Corporation, Airbus and JetBlue Airways (“JetBlue”) celebrated the 31 December with the… Read More »
Cameroon’s Camair-Co to dismiss 130 workers
Cameroon’s Camair-Co (QC, Douala) has drawn up a list of 130 workers who it plans to dismiss, representing nearly a… Read More »
Boeing 737 MAX returns to service in the US
On 29 December American Airlines became the first operator to resume service with the Boeing 737 Max since its grounding… Read More »
Wizz Air Abu Dhabi plots limited 1Q21 launch
Wizz Air Abu Dhabi (WAZ, Abu Dhabi Int’l) has announced that it would launch on January 15, 2021, following a… Read More »
Papua New Guinea props up Air Niugini
Papua New Guinea’s state-owned Air Niugini (PX, Port Moresby) is to receive operational funding via Kumul Consolidated Holdings (KHC), the… Read More »
Thai Airways delays submission of restructuring plan
Thai Airways International (TG, Bangkok Suvarnabhumi) has filed a request with the Central Bankruptcy Court to postpone by one month,… Read More »
Russia’s Volga-Dnepr Airlines resumes An-124 ops after check
Volga-Dnepr Airlines (VI, Ulyanovsk Vostochny) reactivated the first of its ten An-124s on December 26, 2020, following a month-long grounding… Read More »