Transat shareholders back Air Canada deal despite late offer
Despite receiving a late and higher-priced competing proposal, “an overwhelming majority” of shareholders in Air Transat (TS, Montréal Trudeau) parent… Read More »
JSX Air sues Santa Ana, CA airport for discrimination
JSX Air (XE, Dallas Love Field) has filed a lawsuit in the Central District Court-Southern Division against Orange County, CA,… Read More »
WDL Aviation formally rebrands as German Airways
WDL Aviation (WH, Cologne/Bonn) has formally rebranded itself as German Airways (GER, Cologne/Bonn), changing its ICAO code, the name of… Read More »
Pakistan’s Serene Air cleared for international flights
Serene Air (ER, Islamabad Quaid-e-Azam Int’l) plans to launch international flights to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE)… Read More »
Arizona’s Mesa Airlines looks at incremental cargo growth
Mesa Airlines (YV, Phoenix Sky Harbor) sees potential for further growth in the cargo sector and is currently evaluating adding… Read More »
FedEx takes world’s first ATR72-600 freighter
FedEx Express (FX, Memphis Int’l) took delivery of the world’s first ATR72-600F, Avions de Transport Régional’s only purpose-built dedicated freighter,… Read More »
Colour changing ‘smart labels’ will ensure face masks keep passengers safe in the skies
Technology that will alert users to the need to replace their face mask has been unveiled by smart packaging company,… Read More »
Priority Freight and Jota Aviation open post-Brexit ‘air bridge’
Priority Freight, a leading time-critical logistics specialist, has teamed up with charter airline company Jota Aviation to set up an… Read More »
Vallair spearheads A321 passenger to freighter conversions in China
Vallair, the multi-faceted aviation business and launch customer of the Airbus A321 freighter, is pioneering the first passenger to freighter… Read More »
Countries ban flights to/from the UK over new COVID strain
Multiple European countries have banned flights to and from the United Kingdom following the discovery of a new, highly virulent… Read More »
Gov’t to convert six Air India jets for AEW&C missions
The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), a state-run defence company, will convert six unspecified aircraft operated by Air India… Read More »
Sundair launches Swedish operations with a Stockholm Arlanda direct route to Beirut
The German carrier Sundair is starting operations from the Swedish market for the first-time by launching a new non-stop service… Read More »
Marseille Provence welcomes a new airline: Corsair!
Corsair will fly from Marseille to Reunion Island and Mayotte as of Summer 21. Marseille Provence Airport is glad to… Read More »
BGY invests in new cycle paths connecting the airport
Milan Bergamo a bike friendly airport Milan Bergamo Airport is planning a network of cycle paths connecting the airport with… Read More »
Athens – “ODE TO JOY”
4 European airports join forces to spread the Holiday spirit 🙂 Airports and music have something in common – they… Read More »
Shareholders in Korea’s Asiana back 3-to-1 capital cut
In another move that smoothes its acquisition by Korean Air (KE, Seoul Incheon), shareholders at debt-riddled Asiana Airlines (OZ, Seoul… Read More »
Malaysia Airlines’ fate to be resolved by YE20 – minister
Malaysia Airlines’ restructuring is expected to be completed by December 31, the country’s deputy finance minister, Abdul Rahim Bakri, divulged… Read More »
Harare set to absorb Air Zimbabwe debt
Zimbabwe’s Cabinet has decided to assume the debt of Air Zimbabwe (UM, Harare Int’l) and to extend its reconstruction period… Read More »
Boeing restarts B737 MAX deliveries
Boeing (BOE, Chicago O’Hare) has resumed B737 MAX deliveries for the first time since the type’s global grounding in March… Read More »
Mexico’s Interjet ejected from IATA BSP, staff plea for help
The Mexican government has rejected a union plea to take control of Interjet (4O, Toluca) as the beleaguered carrier axed… Read More »
Lithuania’s Heston Airlines takes first A320
Heston Airlines (Vilnius) has taken delivery of its first A320-200, LY-FJI (msn 2157), and intends to shortly add a further… Read More »
Kenyan carriers to serve secessionist Somaliland
Kenya Airways (KQ, Nairobi Jomo Kenyatta) and other Kenyan airlines will, by end of March 2021, commence direct flights between… Read More »
Cameroon’s Camair-Co moots fleet rebuild
Director-General Louis Georges Njipendi Kuotu told Newsaero that one of the carrier’s two MA-60s – TJ-QDA (msn 903) – had… Read More »
Aeroméxico set to restart B737 MAX ops
Aeroméxico (AM, México City Int’l) will become the world’s second airline to restart B737-8 operations when it does so on December 21, ch-aviation schedule… Read More »
China’s Hainan Airlines shores up cash pile
Hainan Airlines (HU, Haikou) has diverted funds raised to acquire aircraft in 2016 to instead “replenish the working capital” of… Read More »
Qatar, Saudi Arabia near overflights deal – report
Saudi Arabia and Qatar are in advanced talks about resolving their lengthy diplomatic dispute, three sources familiar with the negotiations… Read More »