Air Tahiti Nui signs up for French gov’t-guaranteed loan
Édouard Fritch, president of French Polynesia, has signed an agreement in Paris with Jean Castex, prime minister of France, to… Read More »
India’s TruJet grounds fleet, in talks for $25mn funding
Vankayalapati Umesh, managing director of TruJet (2T, Hyderabad Int’l), said in a statement issued via social media on February 16… Read More »
LIAT targets late 2Q22 exit from administration
LIAT (LIA, Antigua) hopes to exit judicial administration through the LIAT 2020 Ltd. newco by mid-2022 as negotiations gather momentum… Read More »
Canada’s Lynx Air adds its first aircraft, 737-8 Max
Lynx Air (Y9, Calgary) took delivery of its first aircraft – a B737-8 – on February 14, 2022, after C-GJSL… Read More »
JetBlue firms 30 A220 options and accelerates E190 phase-out
JetBlue Airways (B6, New York JFK) has firmed thirty more A220-300 options amid plans to accelerate the retirement of its… Read More »
Austrian Airlines to add four A320neos
Austrian Airlines (OS, Vienna) will induct its first new generation narrowbody jets later this summer as part of its fleet… Read More »
Pakistan’s PIA seeks direct links to Australia
PIA – Pakistan International Airlines (PK, Islamabad Quaid-e-Azam Int’l) hopes to start direct flights to Australia in late March. If… Read More »
China’s Jiangxi Cargo and Sichuan Airlines add A330P2F freighters
Jiangxi Cargo Airlines (Nanchang) and Sichuan Airlines (3U, Chengdu Shuangliu) have agreed to lease A330-300(P2F)s from CDB Aviation. In a… Read More »
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 »
LATAM Airlines Group boosts support for its exit plan
LATAM Airlines Group is seeking to refinance a portion of the debt acquired during its bankruptcy, according to a lawyer… Read More »
Widerøe scoops almost all northern Norway PSOs
Widerøe (WF, Bodø) will provide all of the public service obligation (Forpliktingar til offentleg tenesteyting – FOT) routes in northern… Read More »
Babcock, Rolls Royce exit UK’s AirTanker parent company
Rolls-Royce and Babcock International have completed the sale of their respective stakes in AirTanker Holdings Limited to private equity firm… Read More »
EU rules may force IAG to spin off British Airways
IAG International Airlines Group’s ownership of British Airways (BA, London Heathrow) is at risk of a challenge from France and… Read More »
Rome launches sale of ITA Airways majority stake
The Italian government has taken a definitive step towards the privatisation of ITA Airways (AZ, Rome Fiumicino), green-lighting the sale… Read More »
Kenya’s Astral Aviation to add A320P2Fs, eyes widebodies
Astral Aviation (8V, Nairobi Jomo Kenyatta) will become the A320-200(P2F)’s global launch operator after it announced it would lease two… Read More »
Air New Zealand reactivates a Boeing 777-300ER
Air New Zealand (NZ, Auckland Int’l) reactivated the first of its seven B777-300(ER)s on February 10, 2022. ZK-OKQ (msn 40689)… Read More »
Thai AirAsia inks A320 sale and lease-backs
Thai AirAsia (FD, Bangkok Don Mueang) has entered into sale/lease-back transactions for seven A320-200s and has also leased one additional… Read More »