All Nippon Airways plans eVTOL air taxis in Japan
Japan’s ANA Holdings, the parent company of ANA – All Nippon Airways (NH, Tokyo Haneda), and US flying taxi start-up… Read More »
Taiwan’s Starlux Airlines adds first A330-900 widebody
Starlux Airlines is on track to begin A330-900 operations in early summer after it took possession of its first of… Read More »
China Southern adds first A319neo
China Southern Airlines, as the type’s launch operator, took delivery of its first A319-100Ns on February 19 with B-328A (msn… Read More »
Air Busan signs up for CAE’s AI-powered training system
CAE announced at the Singapore Airshow that Air Busan has now successfully launched CAE Rise for its flight training operations…. Read More »
Bluebird Nordic gets second 737-800BCF freighter from lessor AviaAM
Bluebird Nordic has taken delivery of a 737-800BCF Boeing Converted Freighter from AviaAM. The aircraft is the second 737-800BCF delivered… Read More »
New Hawaii Routes, Flights From Major US Cities Coming This Fall
This fall, Delta Air Lines will add a trio of new nonstop flights to Hawaii from three major U.S. cities…. Read More »
Singapore Airlines Rolling Out Blended Sustainable Aviation Fuel
Singapore International Airlines this week said it will use a blend of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) derived from used cooking… Read More »
Employees Who Sued United Over Vaccine Mandate Get Another Chance
Last year, a group of United Airlines employees sued the carrier to block its COVID-19 vaccine mandate, which imposed unpaid… Read More »
Japan’s Peach Aviation cuts capital amount
Peach Aviation (MM, Osaka Kansai) has joined the likes of Air Do, Solaseed Air, Spring, Skymark Airlines, and ZIPAIR Tokyo… Read More »
Delivery Delays from Boeing force American to trim schedule
American Airlines, which announced in December it would scale back its international schedule for the summer of 2022, has again… Read More »
Frontier Airlines Passenger Causes Flight To Be Diverted
Another day, another incident, another flight diverted. A male passenger was restrained with zip ties and, of all things, Saran… Read More »
Vietjet inks deal with Lufthansa Technik to digitalise its fleet’s technical information update process
New-aged carrier VietJet and Lufthansa Technik have signed an agreement at the Singapore Airshow to adopt AVIATAR’s Technical Logbook, the… Read More »
Norwegian Air may order jets from Airbus amid drawn-out Boeing litigation
Norwegian Air may order jets from Airbus in the future unless ongoing litigation with Boeing over previous aircraft cancellations is… Read More »
Air Canada Cargo saw all-time high cargo revenues in 2021
Air Canada Cargo saw all-time high cargo revenues of nearly C$1.5bn in 2021, compared with C$920m in 2020. The cargo… Read More »
Atlas Air reports record revenue and income in 2021
Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings saw record results in 2021 with increased revenue and income, while also placing all of its… Read More »
United Expanding Fleet of Training Aircraft Amid High Demand
United Airlines’ newly-opened United Aviate Academy has announced plans to quadruple the size of its fleet of training aircraft in… Read More »
Delta Air Lines Bringing Back Hot Meals in First Class, Partnering With Instacart
Delta Air Lines is enhancing passengers’ in-flight experience nearly two years into the COVID-19 pandemic by resuming hot meal service… Read More »
American Airlines orders three Embraer E175s
American Airlines (AA, Dallas/Fort Worth) has placed an order with Embraer (EMB, Sao Jose dos Campos) for three incremental E175s… Read More »
US’s Mesa Airlines orders 200 Regent seagliders
Mesa Airlines (YV, Phoenix Sky Harbor) plans to purchase 200 all-electric Regent Craft seagliders to establish new direct city-to-city coastal… Read More »
Air Alderney debuts charter operations
Air Alderney launched charter operations on February 7, 2022, using its only aircraft at present, a BN-2. AirNav RadarBox ADS-B… Read More »
Canada’s Chrono Aviation begins 737-800(SF) operations
Chrono Aviation (NDL, Québec) began B737-800(SF) operations on February 15, 2022, when C-GVZB (msn 32799) operated its first flight from… Read More »
Air Tahiti Nui signs up for French gov’t-guaranteed loan
Édouard Fritch, president of French Polynesia, has signed an agreement in Paris with Jean Castex, prime minister of France, to… Read More »
India’s TruJet grounds fleet, in talks for $25mn funding
Vankayalapati Umesh, managing director of TruJet (2T, Hyderabad Int’l), said in a statement issued via social media on February 16… Read More »
Norwegian delivered profit before tax of NOK 117 million and improved cash position in Q4 2021
Norwegian Air Shuttle has reported its fourth quarter and preliminary full year results for 2021. Passenger demand increased from the… Read More »
Lee Carey, Vice President, EirTrade Aviation
February 2022 Reports indicate that Europe’s commercial aviation industry has been slower to recover compared to the rest of the… Read More »
Emirates flight to Washington flew too low over Dubai, investigators reported
A long-haul Emirates flight heading to Washington in December failed to properly climb and flew incredibly low and fast over… Read More »