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 »
Ukraine’s SkyUp Airlines seeks ACMI deals for all 737s
SkyUp Airlines (PQ, Kyiv Boryspil) has offered all but one of its B737NG aircraft up for wet-lease as the airline… Read More »
Indigo Partners expresses interest in ITA Airways
Indigo Partners, an American private equity fund that has invested in a number of “ultra-low cost” airlines in Europe and… Read More »
Russia’s Sky Gates retires aircraft to Azerbaijan’s Silk Way
Silk Way West Airlines (7L, Baku) has taken over both B747-400(FSCD)s formerly operated by Sky Gates Airlines (U3, Moscow Vnukovo)… Read More »
Irish civil aviation authority rescinds Russia-based COAs
Following on from its counterpart in Bermuda, the Irish Aviation Authority says it has now also revoked certificates of airworthiness… Read More »
Iceland’s PLAY takes first A320neo and A321neo(LR)
PLAY (Iceland) (OG, Reykjavik Keflavik) took delivery of its first A320-200N on March 1, 2022, and is preparing to add… Read More »