Alaska Airlines begins workforce cuts, sets oneworld date
Alaska Air Group warned in a disclosure dated October 13 that capacity reductions are expected to continue into 2021 and… Read More »
Express Freighters Australia takes first A321-200P2F
Express Freighters Australia (QE, Sydney Kingsford Smith) took delivery of the world’s first converted A321-200F narrowbody in the form of… Read More »
Israel and Jordan mutually allow overflights
Israel and Jordan have signed an agreement mutually allowing airlines to overfly both countries, the Israeli Ministry of Transport and… Read More »
Boeing has got a bigger than MAX problem
Boeing finally has a silver lining. Europe’s top aviation regulator told Bloomberg in an interview published on Friday that the… Read More »
Aviation Officials in Europe Say Boeing 737 MAX Safe to Fly
A top aviation regulator in Europe said Boeing’s grounded fleet of 737 MAX planes would be allowed to fly again before the… Read More »
Rolls-Royce prices 2 billion pound equivalent bond to boost finances
Rolls-Royce said it had successfully priced a 2 billion pound ($2.6 billion) equivalent bond offering in three tranches, more than… Read More »
Atlas Air signs charter deal with Cainiao for LatAm flights
Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings, the parent of Atlas Air (5Y, New York JFK) and Polar Air Cargo (PO, New York… Read More »
American Airlines to move Beijing airport in 1Q21
American Airlines (AA, Dallas/Fort Worth) has announced it would use Beijing Daxing Int’l instead of Beijing Capital once its services… Read More »
Minnesota’s Sun Country moots IPO plans while cutting jobs
US low-cost carrier, Sun Country Airlines (SY, Minneapolis/St. Paul), plans to make another push for an initial public offering in… Read More »
India’s airlines owe airport authority $328mn
Airlines have overdue payments owed to the Airports Authority of India (AAI) totalling INR24 billion rupees (USD328 million), due to… Read More »
LIAT may return to Caribbean skies in mid4Q20
Caribbean regional airline, LIAT (LI, Antigua), currently in administration, may return to operations as early as November 2020, according to… Read More »
Emirati investor to bid for Israel’s Israir
Building on the recent normalisation of ties between the United Arab Emirates and Israel, and hopeful to capitalise on the… Read More »
Garuda Indonesia secures $68mn export-boosting state loan
Garuda Indonesia (GA, Jakarta Soekarno-Hatta) has managed to secure an IDR1 trillion rupiah (USD67.9 million) loan facility from the Indonesian… Read More »
Korea’s Eastar Jet to slash staff numbers to lure investor
Eastar Jet (ZE, Seoul Gimpo) revealed on October 13 that it would have to lay off more than half of… Read More »
American Airlines ramps up Caribbean service
American Airlines (AA, Dallas/Fort Worth) has geared up the resumption of its services across the Caribbean, adding 300 weekly flights… Read More »
Italy’s Neos replaces B767-300(ER)s with second-hand B787-9s
Neos (NO, Milan Malpensa) has agreed to take over two dry-leased B787-9s from Norwegian (DY, Oslo Gardermoen), which is in… Read More »
Allegiant Air “inundated” with used A320 offers
Having announced its intention to add second-hand A320-200s retired by carriers due to the COVID-19 pandemic in May 2020, Allegiant… Read More »
US court approves Aeroméxico’s $1bn financing deal
Judge Shelley C Chapman of the US Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York has approved the USD1… Read More »
AirAsia to secure $240mn loan with gov’t backing – report
The Malaysian government is willing to guarantee 80% of an MYR1 billion ringgit (USD240 million) loan provided to AirAsia Group… Read More »
Japan’s ZIPAIR to debut passenger ops in early 4Q20
ZIPAIR Tokyo (ZG, Tokyo Narita) has announced plans for its inaugural passenger service, a 2x weekly route linking Tokyo Narita… Read More »
Nigeria’s Allied Air takes first B737-800(F)
Allied Air (4W, Lagos) took delivery of its first B737-800(SF), N846AG (msn 36846), which has also become the world’s youngest… Read More »
FlyMe parent in tug-of-war over Maldives airport
The Madivian government and the holding company of FlyMe (Maldives) (VP, Malé) remain locked in a legal tug-of-war over control… Read More »
Finnair deploys staff incentive plan, trims winter capacity
Two days after reporting a 91% drop in traffic in September year-on-year, Finnair (AY, Helsinki Vantaa) announced another raft of… Read More »
Air Namibia’s international ops remain grounded
All international operations of cash-strapped Air Namibia (SW, Windhoek Int’l) remain on hold until further notice, but have not been… Read More »
State to account for most of Aeroflot $1bn recapitalisation
The Russian state has pledged to participate in an Aeroflot Group share offering, injecting RUB50 billion rubles (USD649 million) of… Read More »
Airinmar selected by Wizz Air for warranty management services
AAR subsidiary Airinmar, the top global independent provider of component repair cycle management and aircraft warranty solutions, signed a new… Read More »