Thai Airways to resume domestic flights by YE20
Thai Airways International (TG, Bangkok Suvarnabhumi) will restart domestic flights on two trunk routes, from Bangkok Suvarnabhumi to each of… Read More »
Ascent Global Logistics buys Hageland Aviation Services
Michigan-based firm Ascent Global Logistics has acquired defunct Alaskan regional specialist Hageland Aviation Services (H6, Saint Mary’s) and plans to… Read More »
Taiwan’s China Airlines takes first 777 freighter
China Airlines (CI, Taipei Taoyuan) took delivery of its first B777-200F on November 30, 2020, expanding its fleet of dedicated… Read More »
Nepal Airlines mulls options to get rid of Chinese aircraft
Nepal Airlines (RA, Kathmandu) has proposed to the Ministry of Tourism four options to offload six unwanted Chinese-made turboprops even… Read More »
SAA’s administrators between a rock and a hard place
The administrators of South African Airways (SA, Johannesburg O.R. Tambo) have confirmed they have received ZAR1.5 billion (USD97.9 million) in… Read More »
Norwegian to put emergency rescue plan up for vote
Norwegian (DY, Oslo Gardermoen) has scheduled an extraordinary general meeting for December 17 to ask shareholders to back a restructuring… Read More »
Air Namibia liquidation case postponed
Namibia’s High Court has again postponed a case in which Air Namibia (SW, Windhoek Int’l) is facing liquidation over a… Read More »
Qantas outsources ground-handling to save costs
Qantas (QF, Sydney Kingsford Smith) has announced the outsourcing of 2,000 ground staff jobs at ten airports across Australia in… Read More »
easyJet enlists restructuring firm to cut $1.9bn debt pile
easyJet (U2, London Luton) has enlisted American consulting and restructuring firm AlixPartners in an attempt to refinance its GBP1.4 billion… Read More »
Air Caraibes and Corsair Int’l CEOs clash over state aid
Air Caraibes Atlantique (CAJ, Paris Orly) and French Bee (BF, Paris Orly) chief executive Marc Rochet is prepared to file… Read More »
Ryanair orders more Boeing MAX-8200 aircraft
Ryanair, has signed a purchase agreement with Boeing for 75 new MAX-8200 aircraft, which increases its firm order for the… Read More »
Cranfield Airport prepares for delivery of its Saab 340B
The expansion of the Cranfield University flying fleet draws closer as its newly acquired Saab 340B plane has received its… Read More »
APOC Aviation disassembles two CFM56-7B engines
APOC Aviation will be bringing two torn down CFM56-7B engines into stock mid-December. ESN874488 and ESN888169 have previously been operated… Read More »
Wizz Air to establish operations at Cardiff Airport
Wizz Air UK, announced it will have a new base at Cardiff Airport, which will be its fourth alongside London… Read More »
Flyarystan launches news services to Turkistan International Airport
FlyArystan, the LCC division of the Air Astana Group, will be the first carrier to operate services from Nur-Sultan to… Read More »
Lodz Airport at Routes Reconnected
The third day of meetings and talks. Today it is the third day of talks and meetings at Routes Reconnected…. Read More »
The first international covid-free flight by NEOS takes off from Milan Malpensa
The first direct Covid- free flight from Milan Malpensa to Nanjing is the result of the collaboration between SEA, Gruppo… Read More »
The new integrate air traffic management procedure
Reduction of taxi times and lower environmental impact SACBO, airport managing company of Milan Bergamo Airport and ENAV, Italy’s air… Read More »
Boutique Air clinches Altoona, PA EAS contract
Boutique Air (4B, San Francisco, CA) has been granted a two-year contract to service Altoona in Pennsylvania, starting on January… Read More »
Frontier Airlines sues lessor in clash over leaseback deal
Frontier Airlines (F9, Denver Int’l) has sued Dublin-headquartered lessor AMCK Aviation for allegedly seeking to alter the terms of an… Read More »
AirAsia India plans more A320neo despite uncertainty
Despite speculation about its uncertain future and the ongoing strategic review at AirAsia Group, AirAsia India (I5, Bangalore Int’l) is… Read More »
Nigeria’s First Nation CEO charged with fraud
A long-standing NGN2.1 billion naira (USD5.5 million) fraud case against First Nation Airways (FRN, Lagos) Chairman and Chief Executive Officer… Read More »
Air France repeats call for a stretched A220-300
Air France-KLM Chief Executive Ben Smith reaffirmed the group’s belief that a stretched version of the A220 Family aircraft “would… Read More »
Court clears hurdle for Korean Air-Asiana merger; LCCs fret
An attempt to derail the planned merger of Korean Air (KE, Seoul Incheon) and Asiana Airlines (OZ, Seoul Incheon) lost… Read More »
Global industry bodies call for the extension of slot relief
The leading global associations of airlines, airport operators, and slot coordinators have called upon the legislators to extend slot relief… Read More »
Kenya Airways launches Johannesburg cargo base
Kenya Airways (KQ, Nairobi Jomo Kenyatta) has moved into a market gap left my stricken South African Airways (SA, Johannesburg… Read More »