Alaska adds flights between Minneapolis and Anchorage
Alaska Airlines is adding summer service between Anchorage and Minneapolis-St. Paul starting June 19. Last week, the airline resumed flights… Read More »
United has operated more than 11K cargo flights
United Airlines has operated more than 11,000 cargo-only flights transporting more than 570 million pounds of freight since the first… Read More »
Alaska appoints its first female COO
Alaska has appointed Constance von Muehlen as its new COO, effective April 3, 2021. She recently served as senior vice… Read More »
On-site COVID-19 vaccination clinic at SEA Airport
Port Partners with Department of Health, FEMA, and Safeway/Albertsons for Vaccination Clinic On-site COVID-19 vaccination clinic at SEA Airport to… Read More »
Experienced Route Development Profile at Aalborg Airport
On the 1st of June 2021, Annika Liljenberg will take up the position as Director of Route Development at Aalborg… Read More »
British Airways mulls sale of HQ due to homeworking
British Airways (BA, London Heathrow) is considering selling the building near London Heathrow that houses its headquarters, as the switch… Read More »
Norfolk Island sees resumption fo commercial pax flights
Norfolk Island, an Australian territory in the South Pacific, has become the focus of a bun fight between Qantas (QF,… Read More »
Italy’s Piaggio Aerospace bags four non-binding offers
Italian aerospace manufacturer Piaggio Aerospace (Genoa) has received four non-binding offers for the acquisition of the group’s aircraft and engine… Read More »
Ohio’s Ultimate Air Shuttle to resume scheduled ops in 2Q21
Ultimate Air Shuttle (UE, Cincinnati Lunken) has announced that it will restart scheduled operations on April 12, 2021, more than… Read More »
Uganda Airlines dismisses Auditor-General’s debt claims
Uganda Airlines (UR, Entebbe/Kampala) has denied it is indebted as claimed in a recent report by the country’s Auditor General,… Read More »
Egypt’s Air Cairo to expand into West Africa
Air Cairo (SM, Cairo Int’l) is to open a new route between Cairo Int’l and Conakry (Guinea) via Niamey (Niger)… Read More »
Alitalia newco to launch ops early 3Q21, plans asset tenders
ITA – Italia Trasporto Aereo, the newco Alitalia (AZ, Rome Fiumicino), must commence flight operations this summer, by June or… Read More »
Saudia inks historic $3bn fleet financing deal
Punted as the largest deal to date in Saudi Arabia’s aviation history, Saudia (SV, Jeddah) has clinched a SAR11.2 billion… Read More »
Ukraine will not nationalise Motor Sich – security secretary
Oleksiy Danilov, secretary of Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council (NSDC), has said that there is currently no talk of… Read More »
Jet Airways deal hits new hurdle, ex-CEO eyes new airline
The acquisition of Jet Airways (JAI, Mumbai Int’l) by the consortium of London-based Kalrock Capital and Dubai-based businessman Murari Lal… Read More »
Lithuania’s Heston Airlines adds first A320
Heston Airlines (HST, Vilnius) has taken delivery of its first aircraft, A320-200 LY-FJI (msn 2157), as it inches towards its… Read More »
Airbus, Boeing vie as Qantas says “now is the time to buy”
As Airbus and Boeing vie for a multi-billion dollar Qantas (QF, Sydney Kingsford Smith) order to replace its ageing B737-800… Read More »
Kigali in final talks with Qatar over RwandAir equity
The Rwandan government is in “final talks” with Qatar Airways (QR, Doha Hamad Int’l) over the sale of a 49%… Read More »
Ariana Afghan Airlines looks to grow B737 fleet
Ariana Afghan Airlines (FG, Kabul) is on the market for a B737-500, almost six months after it sold its first… Read More »
Air China to acquire five A320neo, 13 A321neo
Air China (CA, Beijing Capital) has announced in a stock market filing that it will buy eighteen A320neo Family narrowbodies… Read More »
Universal Avionics achieves approval for its SBAS-FMS solutions for ATR models
Universal Avionics has announced EASA STC approval of the company’s high-performance SBAS-FMS solution for the ATR 42 and ATR 72… Read More »
Air Charter Scotland introduces its first Glasgow-based executive jet
Air Charter Scotland, a leading British private jet operator and aircraft management company, is making available a Cessna Citation 525A… Read More »
Indigo Partners cuts Wizz Air stake to 8.5%
The largest shareholder in Wizz Air (W6, Budapest), Indigo Partners, has sold around GBP400 million pounds (USD554.7 million) worth of… Read More »
AirAsia Group raises $81.8mn, embraces new investors
AirAsia Group has raised a total of MYR336.46 million ringgit (USD81.83 million) following the completion of the second tranche of… Read More »
Illinois court throws out B737 MAX fraud case against Boeing
The District Court for the Northern District of Illinois has dismissed fraud allegations filed against Boeing by lessor Timaero Ireland… Read More »
Gov’t clears SriLankan Airlines to add freighter aircraft
Sri Lanka’s Cabinet has authorised flag carrier SriLankan Airlines (UL, Colombo Int’l) to lease a freighter of unspecified type to… Read More »