SA Express’s provisional liquidation extended to early 1Q21
South African Express (XZ, Johannesburg O.R. Tambo) will remain in provisional liquidation until January 28, 2021, according to an extension… Read More »
South African Airways gets another gov’t bailout
South Africa’s National Treasury has granted another bailout of ZAR10.5 billion rand (USD638 million) to South African Airways (SA, Johannesburg… Read More »
Darbhanga, India to open to commercial traffic in mid-4Q20
SpiceJet (SG, Delhi Int’l) has announced it will launch services from the newly opened Darbhanga airport on November 8, 2020,… Read More »
SkyWest clinches Pennsylvania, Texas EAS contracts
SkyWest Airlines (OO, Salt Lake City) has been granted new three-year contracts to provide flights to Johnstown, Pennsylvania, and Victoria,… Read More »
Malaysia Airlines parent offers early retirement scheme
Malaysia Airlines (MH, Kuala Lumpur Int’l) parent Malaysia Aviation Group has offered early retirement to its employees as it continues… Read More »
Wizz Air hopes for new post-Brexit slot rules in the UK
Wizz Air UK (W9, London Luton) is lobbying the British government to change slot allocation rules following the end of… Read More »
UK’s Titan Airways takes first A321neo(LR)
Titan Airways (ZT, London Stansted) has taken delivery of the first of two A321-200NX(LR)s due to be operated, among others,… Read More »
SpiceJet wet-leases Maldivian Twin Otter for seaplane ops
SpiceJet (SG, Delhi Int’l) has wet-leased a DHC-6-300 amphibian from Maldivian (Q2, Malé) for use in operating India’s first-ever scheduled… Read More »
Lithuanian ACMI start-up Heston Airlines to launch in 1Q21
Lithuanian lessor and MRO provider Heston Aviation has launched all-A320 operator Heston Airlines (Vilnius), which will focus on charter and… Read More »
Solomon Airlines pleads for gov’t support
Solomons – Solomon Airlines (IE, Honiara) needs state funding to survive after the Solomon Islands government extended the closure of… Read More »
GE’s shares soar as earnings recover from pandemic lows
General Electric Co GE.N on Wednesday unexpectedly reported a quarterly profit and a positive cash flow on the back of cost cuts… Read More »
Boeing deepens job cuts as twin crises extend losses
Boeing Co BA.N unveiled a fourth straight quarterly loss and deeper job cuts on Wednesday as the coronavirus pandemic and the lengthy… Read More »
Japan’s ANA to shrink fleet as it skids toward record $4.8 billion loss
Japan’s ANA Holdings Inc 9202.T on Tuesday said it will retire more than a tenth of its mostly Boeing Co BA.N fleet and delay… Read More »
Saudi airline faces claim over 50 leased Airbus planes
State-owned Saudi Arabian Airlines is facing a claim in London’s High Court filed last month by a Dubai-based financial services… Read More »
Airplane COVID-19 risk ‘very low’ with masks, other actions, report finds
Transmission risks of COVID-19 during airline flights are very low and below other routine activities during the pandemic such as… Read More »
Former Spicejet owner tells court to hand stake back
Indian media baron Kalanithi Maran, owner of the Chennai-based conglomerate Sun Group, has asked the High Court of Delhi to… Read More »
Japan’s ANA to launch new airline in rejigged business model
ANA Holdings has set out a series of measures towards what it calls a new business model to survive the… Read More »
Belgium’s VizionAir expands chartered fleet
VizionAir (Antwerp) has expanded its fleet of aircraft available for charter through the addition of a Fokker 50 operated by… Read More »
Southwest Airlines eyes A220/B737-7 decision by 2025
Southwest Airlines (WN, Dallas Love Field) is evaluating both the A220-300 and B737-7 ahead of an order and deliveries which… Read More »
Japan’s Peach Aviation restarts international services
Peach Aviation (MM, Osaka Kansai) restarted international flights on October 25, 2020, more than seven months after all such scheduled… Read More »
Japan’s StarFlyer mulls capital increase of up to $95mn
StarFlyer (7G, Kita Kyushu) has denied reports that it has resolved to issue new shares through a third-party allotment to… Read More »
Alaska Airlines ponders future of A320 leases
Alaska Airlines (AS, Seattle Tacoma Int’l) is evaluating options regarding the dry-leases of around two-thirds of its Airbus aircraft which… Read More »
One-day strike cost to Ghana airlines
Ghana’s two main domestic airlines Africa World Airlines (AW, Accra) and PassionAir (OP, Accra) have lost an estimated GHS330,000 cedi… Read More »
Paraguay reopens for commercial traffic
Several airlines are resuming commercial flights to Paraguay following the reopening of the country’s main international airports, Asuncion and Ciudad… Read More »
Pakistan’s Rayyan Air secures 777 cargo capacity to China
Rayyan Air (RAB, Islamabad Benazir Bhutto Int’l) will charter a B777 from PIA – Pakistan International Airlines (PK, Islamabad Quaid-e-Azam… Read More »
Japan’s ANA to cut 3,500 staff; widebody fleet by 30
ANA Holdings is considering reducing its workforce by 3,500 employees by 2022, to be achieved through natural reductions such as… Read More »