Taxi union fails in bid for South Africa’s Mango
The administrator of Mango Airlines (JE, Johannesburg O.R. Tambo) has declined to comment on reports that South Africa’s national taxi… Read More »
India’s Alliance Air secures two ATR42s for Himalaya ops
Alliance Air (India) (9I, Mumbai Int’l) has secured two ATR42-600s on dry-lease from TrueNoord following a tender floated in November… Read More »
Ex-partner spurns $80mn settlement offer of India’s SpiceJet
Media mogul Kalanithi Maran and his conglomerate Sun Group have rejected a INR6 billion rupee (USD80 million) one-time settlement offer… Read More »
India’s flybig eyes ATR72-600s; Dash 8 wet-lease
flybig (S9, Indore) is to induct two ATR72-600s by March-end and is also planning to wet-lease a DHC-8-Q400 soon, an… Read More »
India’s Jet Airways secures $6.6mn loan to finance restart
Jet Airways (JAI, Mumbai Int’l) has secured a INR500 million rupee (USD6.6 million) unsecured inter-corporate deposit from Orion IT, a… Read More »
Delhi to sell Air India groundhandler Alliance Air
India’s central government will attempt to privatise the groundhandling arm of Air India (AI, Mumbai Int’l) that remains in state… Read More »
Finnair to keep Asia focus, as EC approves €49mn aid
Finnair (AY, Helsinki Vantaa) will not be deviating from its Asia-accented strategy, but until key markets like Japan, South Korea,… Read More »
Uzbekistan Airways takes delivery of first A321neo(LR)
Uzbekistan Airways (HY, Tashkent Islam Karimov) has taken delivery of its first A321-200NX(LR) with UK32101 (msn 10607) having been ferried… Read More »
Malaysia’s Capital A plans separate listing for AirAsia
The aviation businesses that Capital A (formerly AirAsia Group) owns will ultimately be managed independently from the parent and listed… Read More »
Qantas, Alliance Airlines set up E190 base in Darwin
Qantas (QF, Sydney Kingsford Smith) is setting up a new E190 jet base at Darwin to service key QantasLink routes… Read More »
Corendon Dutch Airlines is introducing in-seat snacks and duty-free ordering
Corendon Dutch Airlines, the Amsterdam-based charter airline of the Corendon Airlines Group, has announced the introduction of new technology with… Read More »
Etihad Airways orders seven Airbus A350F freighters
Etihad Airways has signed a Letter of Intent (LoI) for seven Airbus A350F freighters to add to its existing fleet… Read More »
Singapore Airlines orders seven A350F freighter jets to replace its 747-400F fleet
Singapore Airlines signed a Letter of Intent (LOI) with Airbus in December 2021 to purchase seven of the recently launched… Read More »
Transavia France resumes flights to Budapest
Budapest Airport is announcing another important route resumption, with Transavia France – part of the Air France-KLM group – once again… Read More »
Australian low-cost Bonza reveals route map and airport bases
Australian independent low-cost carrier Bonza has revealed its route map and airport bases and announced Sunshine Coast Airport as its… Read More »
Ukraine declares airspace over the country is “currently open”
The Ukraine has declared airspace over the country is “currently open and accessible for flight planning” as the threat of… Read More »
Singapore Airlines orders 22 General Electric’s GE9X to power its 777Xs
Singapore Airlines has signed a contract for US$2.8 billion with General Electric for the latter to provide a further 22… Read More »
JetBlue orders an additional 30 Airbus A220-300s
JetBlue has added another 30 Airbus A220-300s to its order book, exercising options that were included in a previous order…. Read More »
Air India new CEO will be Turkish Airlines’ ex-chairman
The Tata Group has announced the appointment of Ilker Ayci – former chairman of Turkish Airlines – as Air India’s… Read More »
Condor takes delivery of its first Airbus A330-200 and adds North Atlantic routes
Condor took delivery of an ex-Etihad Airways A330-200 on Feb. 9th. The Airbus A330s will have 262 or 256 seats,… Read More »
Ukrainian Airline is moving aircraft out of the country following U.S. warnings
This followed a warning from the US State Department that Russia could invade at any time, Ukraine International Airlines (UIA)… Read More »
Korean Air takes delivery of its first Boeing 737 Max jet
Korean Air has taken delivery of its first Boeing 737 Max jet. The jet arrived in Seoul, South Korea, on… Read More »
Eastern Air Cargo launches 777 service with Flexport
Flexport has become the launch partner for Eastern Air’s express freighter service, with a multi-year contract using Boeing 777s with… Read More »
Air Lease Corp will lease 25 Boeing 737 Max jets to Malaysia Airlines
Air Lease Corp will lease 25 Boeing 737 MAX jets to Malaysia Airlines’ parent to be delivered between early 2023… Read More »
New easyJet Route from Larnaka to Charles de Gaulle
Easyjet announced the launch of direct flights from/to Larnaca Airport and Paris, Charles de Gaulle, starting on the 29th of… Read More »
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