India’s Vistara mulls short-term leases due to 787 delays
Vistara (UK, Delhi Int’l) is evaluating its fleet options for its planned expansion to the United States in light of… Read More »
BOC Aviation sues Russia’s AirBridgeCargo over 747-8F
The fall-out from the Russian invasion of Ukraine has made its way to the US District Court in New York… Read More »
US’s KaiserAir to debut new Hawaii Shuttle service
KaiserAir (KAI, Oakland) launches a new members-only Hawaii Shuttle service on May 5 between its base at Oakland in California… Read More »
Royal Air Maroc to issue 737 renewal RFP in 2023
Royal Air Maroc (AT, Casablanca Int’l) is preparing a request for proposals for the replacement of its existing B737 fleet… Read More »
Qatar Airways denies owing $220mn to Airbus
Qatar Airways (QR, Doha Hamad Int’l) has rejected Airbus’s claims that it owes the manufacturer USD220 million for the two… Read More »
Philippines Cebu Pacific Air holds course for all-neo fleet
Cebu Pacific Air (5J, Manila Ninoy Aquino Int’l) still plans to transition to an all-neo Airbus fleet by 2027, the… Read More »
India’s flybig signs LOI for 5+5 Twin Otter-400s
flybig (S9, Indore) has signed a Letter of Intent (LOI) with De Havilland Aircraft of Canada covering five firm-ordered DHC-6-400s… Read More »
Air New Zealand to launch ultra-long-haul service to New York JFK in late 3Q22
Air New Zealand (NZ, Auckland Int’l) has confirmed that it will launch non-stop 3x weekly services from Auckland Int’l to… Read More »
Aeromexico invests in fleet after exiting Chapter 11
Grupo Aeroméxico is to invest USD5 billion over the next five years, mainly to expand its fleet, following its successful… Read More »
UK’s flybe outlines 2Q22 launch network
flybe. (BE, Birmingham Int’l) has outlined plans to restart operations on April 13, 2022, and has launched ticket sales for… Read More »
Amelia snatches EU PSO routes from Lufthansa, Air France
Amelia (NL, Paris Le Bourget) has announced it is taking over Public Service Obligation (PSO) routes from Strasbourg, France, to… Read More »
US authorities dissolve Air Peace boss’s US company
US authorities have dissolved Springfield Aviation, the US company owned by Allen Onyema, the chief executive of Nigeria’s Air Peace… Read More »
Brussels backs €30.7mn Covid aid to Bulgarian carriers
The European Commission has approved EUR30.7 million euros (USD33.7 million) in direct Bulgarian government grants as support for the country’s… Read More »
Dublin lends Aer Lingus €200mn, Emerald Airlines €6mn
Aer Lingus (EI, Dublin Int’l) has agreed a new EUR200 million euro (USD220 million) loan with the Irish sovereign wealth… Read More »
South African CAA suspends Lufthansa Technik subsidiary
Procedural issues have seen the indefinite suspension of Lufthansa Technik Maintenance International’s (LTMI) Aircraft Maintenance Organisations (AMO) license by the… Read More »
Virgin Australia win sets Cape Town Convention precedent
In a precedent-setting interpretation of the Convention on International Interests in Mobile Equipment (Cape Town Convention) and the Protocol to… Read More »
China’s EHang secures largest pre-order of eVTOL aircraft
Chinese eVTOL manufacturer EHang Holdings has secured its largest pre-order of 60 autonomous aerial vehicles (AAVs) from Malaysia’s Aerotree Flight… Read More »
Air Canada to add 26 A321neo(XLR)s
Air Canada (AC, Montréal Trudeau) is set to secure twenty-six A321-200NX(XLR)s, including six ordered from Airbus, fifteen from Air Lease… Read More »
Moldova partially reopens airspace to resume Chisinau ops
The Civil Aviation Authority of Moldova has partially reopened the country’s airspace on March 22 to permit regular operations at… Read More »
Congo Airways returns wet-leased Kenya Airways E190s
Congo Airways (8Z, Kinshasa N’Djili) has returned two ERJ 190-100ARs to Kenya Airways (KQ, Nairobi Jomo Kenyatta) following the end… Read More »
Iceland’s Niceair contracts Hi Fly Malta for charter ops
Niceair (Akureyri) has enlisted Hi Fly Malta (HFM, Malta Int’l) to operate an A319-100 on its behalf when flights commence… Read More »
Brazil’s GOL is open to more mergers and acquisitions
GOL Linhas Aéreas Inteligentes (G3, Sao Paulo Congonhas) is poised to take further advantage of a developing trend of… Read More »