IAG agrees €100mn exclusivity deal with Air Europa owner
IAG International Airlines Group has reached a deal to negotiate exclusively with Globalia for one year over the chance of… Read More »
New bids invited for stricken South African Express
A new bidding process for the rescue of provisionally liquidated South African Express (EXY, Johannesburg O.R. Tambo) will open this… Read More »
EASA suspends type certificates, TCOs of Russian entities
The European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) has enacted further restrictions on the Russian civil aviation industry by suspending the… Read More »
Vietravel Airlines appeals to gov’t for jet-fuel tax breaks
Vietravel Airlines (VU, Hue Phu Bai Int’l) has appealed for government help to ease the burden of rising fuel costs,… Read More »
Malaysia’s AirAsia X completes debt rejig, reaps $7.9bn
AirAsia X (D7, Kuala Lumpur Int’l) has completed its debt restructuring, allowing the low-cost long-haul affiliate of Capital A to… Read More »
Oman Air, SalamAir forge closer commercial ties
Oman Air (WY, Muscat) and SalamAir (OV, Muscat) have announced a new strategic partnership for closer network alignment to boost… Read More »
Emirates SkyCargo to relaunch DWC hub in late 1Q22
Emirates (EK, Dubai Int’l) has announced that it will relaunch its second cargo hub at Dubai World Central airport on… Read More »
US’s GLOBALX inks LOI for 200 Eve eVTOLs
Global Crossing Airlines Group – the parent of US ACMI/charter specialist GLOBALX (GXA, Miami Int’l) – has signed a letter… Read More »
Iran aircraft talks with Airbus and ATR
Talks in Vienna aimed at reviving a 2015 deal with Iran, which would give sanctions relief in exchange for curbs… Read More »
India’s Meghalaya state regrets flybig subsidy plan
India’s Meghalaya state government made a costly mistake when it signed a deal with flybig (S9, Indore) to provide subsidised… Read More »
New investors ask for more time to revive Jet Airways
The Kalrock Capital-Murari Lal Jalan consortium has petitioned the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) in India to extend the deadline… Read More »
Air Canada adds fuel stops on Delhi route
Air Canada (AC, Montréal Trudeau) has introduced a fuel stop on its hitherto non-stop service from Vancouver Int’l to Delhi… Read More »
Norse Atlantic Airways defers launch to late 2Q22
Norse Atlantic Airways (Oslo Gardermoen) has announced it will now launch in June 2022, rather than in April, due to… Read More »
US’s Cabo Express to shuttle Mexican holiday home owners
Six high-end holiday home communities in Mexico are to receive an exclusive, membership-based air service pending an application to the… Read More »
Air Zimbabwe to convert Boeing 777s into freighters
Air Zimbabwe (UM, Harare Int’l) is looking to wet-lease or dry-lease its two in-house B777-200(ER)s in the short-term and later… Read More »
UK’s flybe. to open Belfast City base
flybe. (BE, Birmingham Int’l) has announced Belfast City airport as its second base ahead of the network reveal planned for… Read More »
Thailand’s Bangkok Airways to provide third-party MRO
Bangkok Airways is to provide third-party heavy maintenance services for Airbus and Avions de Transport Régional ATR aircraft as part… Read More »
Vanuatu may adopt discarded Samoa Airways 737
The government of Vanuatu may be willing to take a discarded B737-800 off the hands of the government of the… Read More »
UK’s Jet2 suspends Poland flights due to war in Ukraine
Jet2 (United Kingdom) (LS, Leeds/Bradford) has suspended all of its flights to Kraków, its only Polish destination, from March 24,… Read More »
S Africa’s Comair resumes flights after safety all-clear
Comair (South Africa) (MN, Johannesburg O.R. Tambo) has announced it will resume flights in the morning on March 17 after… Read More »
US’s Mokulele Airlines expects first Saab340 in early 2Q22
Southern Airways Express (9X, Memphis Int’l) is expecting the delivery in Hawaii in late April 2022 of the first of… Read More »
Eswatini Air adds first aircraft
Eswatini Air – the new regional airline brand of state-owned Royal Eswatini National Airways (RENAC) – plans to debut by… Read More »
Russia lifts COVID bans and opens CIS markets for Aeroflot
The Russian government lifted COVID-related air travel bans covering direct flights to Azerbaijan, Armenia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and… Read More »
Nigerian carriers form Spring Alliance
Six Nigerian airlines have come together in what they term the “Spring Alliance” aimed at commercial cooperation and operational support… Read More »
Tata, Singapore Airlines hand India’s Vistara another $65.4m
Vistara (UK, Delhi Int’l) has been handed a sixth injection of funding in the two years since the outbreak of… Read More »
Solomon Airlines resumes domestic flights
Solomons – Solomon Airlines (IE, Honiara) has confirmed it is restarting commercial domestic services between Honiara, the capital of the… Read More »