Solomons to cut workforce by 20%
Solomons – Solomon Airlines (IE, Honiara) has announced that it will lay off 59 staff members, thus reducing the size… Read More »
India’s IndiGo completes A320neo engine replacement drive
IndiGo Airlines (6E, Delhi Int’l) has replaced faulty Pratt & Whitney PW1000-family engines powering all of its 128 A320neo Family… Read More »
Spirit adds Orange County to route map
Spirit Airlines is expanding in the Los Angeles area with the addition of John Wayne Airport to its route map…. Read More »
Aviation needs to ‘reinvent itself’ on sustainability
EasyJet director calls on industry to ensure governments have right policies in place. The coronavirus crisis has heightened the need… Read More »
Qatar Airways agrees delivery delays with Airbus, still talking to Boeing
Qatar Airways has struck a deal with Airbus SE (AIR.PA) to delay delivery of airplanes due to the pandemic-induced travel… Read More »
FBI opens probe into defunct US carrier OneJet CEO
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has allegedly launched a criminal investigation into defunct virtual carrier OneJet (J1, Pittsburgh Int’l),… Read More »
California’s Surf Air nets $200mn, hires industry veteran
Surf Air (URF, Santa Monica) has raised USD200 million in advance of plans to go public and has also hired… Read More »
UAE gov’t injects $2bn into Emirates
The government of the emirate of Dubai pumped AED7.3 billion dirhams (USD2 billion) into Emirates (EK, Dubai Int’l) earlier this… Read More »
Bank dangles more incentives for HDC to buy Korea’s Asiana
State-owned Korea Development Bank, the main creditor of Asiana Airlines (OZ, Seoul Incheon), has offered further financial incentives to ease… Read More »
Audit points to graft, mismanagement at Thai Airways
A governmental audit has identified multiple cases of graft, corruption, and wrong business decisions as the reasons for Thai Airways… Read More »
Pakistan’s Serene Air adds maiden widebody, an A330-200
Serene Air (ER, Islamabad Quaid-e-Azam Int’l) took delivery of its first widebody aircraft, an A330-200, on August 27, 2020. AP-BNE… Read More »
Emirates, flydubai resume codesharing, enlarging route networks
Flydubai carries Emirates passengers to several East European destinations not served by the long-haul specialist. The gradual restoration of the… Read More »
EgyptAir and Air Cairo sign codeshare agreement
The two carriers have agreed a codeshare deal less than four months after signing a Memorandum of Understanding to increase… Read More »
Recovery Tracker: International travel reduction hits the UK
Continuing uncertainty around international travel restrictions designed to curb the spread of COVID-19 continues to hurt the UK economy, a… Read More »
Wizz cuts capacity after Hungary border closure
Wizz Air has put the brakes on plans to increase capacity to 80% in the next quarter amid heightened travel… Read More »
President Trump Says He Will Help Struggling Airlines
President Donald Trump said that his administration would help out struggling airlines but gave no details on how. “We’ll be helping the… Read More »
Hawaiian Airlines Issues Furlough Notices
Pilots and flight attendants are among the first of nearly 1,000 employees to be laid off from Hawaiian Airlines as… Read More »
India’s SpiceJet to debut seaplane operations in 4Q20
SpiceJet (SG, Delhi Int’l) will “likely” launch its long-touted seaplane operations in the state of Gujarat on October 31, 2020,… Read More »
Wings of Lebanon suspends operations, returns 737-700
WOL – Wings of Lebanon (W7, Beirut) suspended all operations effective August 26, 2020, “due to the prevailing economic situation… Read More »
Taiwan’s EVA Air rejigs Boeing 787 order backlog
EVA Air (BR, Taipei Taoyuan) has revised its Boeing (BOE, Chicago O’Hare) order backlog in light of the COVID-19 pandemic… Read More »
South Africa’s Comair outlines details of binding offer
Comair (South Africa) (MN, Johannesburg O.R. Tambo) has revealed details of the binding offer it has chosen ahead of the… Read More »
Samoa bans international flights, including repatriations
The Government of Samoa has extended a nationwide state of emergency through September 27, 2020, widening the scope of restrictions… Read More »
India’s FlyBig hopes to team up with revived Jet Airways
FlyBig (Indore) founder and pilot-turned-entrepreneur Sanjay Mandavia is planning to pair the start-up regional carrier with a revived Jet Airways… Read More »
Colorado’s AspenJet eyes 1Q21 launch
AspenJet (Aspen) is a start-up carrier planning to launch during the first quarter of 2021, selling charter flights to Aspen… Read More »
Tanzania ramps up retaliatory bans on Kenyan airlines
The Tanzania Civil Aviation Authority (TCAA) has extended its ban on Kenyan airlines to include Fly540 (5H, Nairobi Jomo Kenyatta),… Read More »
Belgium’s Air Antwerp delays restart
Air Antwerp (WP, Antwerp) said that it plans to relaunch scheduled flights between Antwerp and London City, its only route,… Read More »