Viking Announces New World Cruises for 2023-2024
Viking announced its new 2023-2024 Viking World Cruise, which will span 138 days, 28 countries and 57 ports, with overnight… Read More »
Seabourn Sojourn Returning to Service in Mediterranean Next Year
Ultra-luxury cruise line Seabourn announced that its Seabourn Sojourn ship would return to service for the summer season in the… Read More »
Romania’s Blue Air to enter the UK leisure market
Blue Air (Romania) (0B, Bucharest Otopeni) has announced it will enter the coveted United Kingdom leisure market with services from London Heathrow to Nice starting on… Read More »
US court asked to enforce $320m claim against Argentina
A long-standing legal dispute over the renationalisation of Aerolineas Argentinas (AR, Buenos Aires Ezeiza) and its then sister airline, Austral (AU, Buenos Aires Aeroparque), has resurfaced… Read More »
India lifts B737 MAX ban to benefit of SpiceJet, Akasa Air
India’s civil aviation regulator, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA), announced on August 26 that it had cleared Boeing’s B737-8 and B737-9 aircraft to… Read More »
Court grants India’s SpiceJet relief over $10.86mn tax debt
A court has granted SpiceJet (SG, Delhi Int’l) partial relief from a demand from India’s Department of Revenue that it immediately pay a Goods and… Read More »
Qantas to reactivate A380s in 2022, waits with A350ULR order
Qantas (QF, Sydney Kingsford Smith) is planning to reactivate several A380-800s next year but will wait before committing to its tentative A350-1000(ULR) order until… Read More »
Etihad bondholders file Air Seychelles winding-up petition
Bondholders at EA Partners II, a Netherlands-based special purpose vehicle belonging to Etihad Aviation Group, have filed a winding-up petition against Air… Read More »
Nigeria’s Green Africa Airways in ownership court challenge
Barely two weeks after lift-off, Nigerian startup Green Africa Airways (Q9, Lagos) faces an ownership challenge in the Federal High Court in Lagos… Read More »
IAI, Etihad to open B777 P2F conversion site in Abu Dhabi
Israel Aerospace Industries (Tel Aviv Ben Gurion) has partnered with Etihad Engineering, the maintenance, repair, and overhaul (MRO) wing of Etihad Aviation… Read More »
Malaysia’s Kargo Xpress to add two B737-800(BCF)s
Kargo Xpress (KXP, Kuala Lumpur Int’l) has ordered two B737-800(BCF)s from GECAS with deliveries scheduled for October 2021 and January 2022, respectively. The two Boeing freighters will… Read More »
South African Airways details relaunch plans due in 3Q21
South African Airways (SA, Johannesburg O.R. Tambo) has confirmed it will resume commercial passenger operations on September 23 on one domestic and… Read More »
Ryanair pulls out of Northern Ireland over tax issues
Ryanair (FR, Dublin Int’l) has blamed UK passenger taxes and a lack of COVID-19 recovery incentives for its decision to pull out… Read More »
Israel to give El Al, Arkia, Israir more loans
Less than four weeks after Israel’s airlines appealed for more government funding, the Ministry of Finance said it had agreed in principle… Read More »
Philippine Airlines returns aircraft, defers deliveries
Philippine Airlines (PR, Manila Ninoy Aquino Int’l) returned two unspecified aircraft to lessors in July 2021 and deferred all deliveries of new… Read More »
Icelandic airline PLAY applies for US flying permit
PLAY, the bright red, low-cost, Icelandic airline has applied for a permit and exemption authority with the US Department of… Read More »
Development of “Green” self-charging electric plane with a range of 500 miles gets boost as Bristow Group joins forces with Electra.aero
Bristow Group Inc. the world’s leading global provider of vertical flight solutions to government and civil organisations, and Electra.aero, Inc…. Read More »
American Airlines says August revenue weaker than expected because of rise in Covid cases
American Airlines on Wednesday said August revenue is coming in lower than expected as a rise in Covid cases drives… Read More »
London’s Richmond Harbour Hotel prepares to open spa
Richmond Harbour Hotel in London is putting the finishing touches on its spa, which will feature 13 treatment rooms, an… Read More »
Apple REIT adds 213th with $66.8M AC Hotel buy in Maine
Virginia-based Apple Hospitality REIT Inc. has purchased the AC Hotel by Marriott in Portland, Maine, for $66.8 million. The acquisition… Read More »
Cost, capacity grow for Va. factory-to-casino project
Add $100 million to the original $400 million cost, and bump the number of hotel rooms from 300 to 500,… Read More »
Maldives’ Ritz-Carlton is ambassador of environment
Travelers who want an environmental adventure have a new destination to visit — the Ritz-Carlton Maldives, Fari Islands, which is… Read More »