IAG mulls cargo, loyalty, IT, aircraft changes
IAG International Airlines Group is looking to divest assets such as aircraft and stakes in its air freight unit IAG… Read More »
Ireland’s Emerald Airlines commences flight operations
Emerald Airlines (Ireland) (EAI, Dublin Int’l) has begun flight operations following the launch of its inaugural service on the state-subsidised… Read More »
Lessors start repossessing aircraft from Russian airlines
All European Union-based lessors have until March 28 to terminate existing contracts with Russian operators and have begun a frantic… Read More »
World’s only An-225 destroyed by Russian airstrikes
The government of Ukraine has confirmed that the world’s only An-225, operated by state-owned Antonov Airlines (ADB, Gostomel), has been… Read More »
Tenders open for TAP’s slots at Lisbon, Portugal
Expressions of interest have been invited from interested airlines for 18 daily slots at Lisbon belonging to TAP Air Portugal… Read More »
Qantas to order A350-1000(ULR)s by mid-2022, launch in 2025
Qantas (QF, Sydney Kingsford Smith) has revived plans to order A350-1000(ULR)s for its planned “Project Sunrise” non-stop services to Europe… Read More »
Cobham secures FIFO contract in Western Australia
Cobham Aviation Services Australia – Airline Services (QJE, Adelaide) has secured a further seven-year contract to continue providing fly-in, fly-out… Read More »
Venezuela’s Solar Cargo adds first Boeing 727 freighter
Solar Cargo (4S, Valencia Arturo Michelena Int’l) has taken delivery of its first of two B727-200(F)s, sources in Venezuela have… Read More »
Mexico’s Mas Air rebrands, to expand to 18 freighters
Mas Air (M7, México City Int’l) has rebranded to mas as it further severs links with its LATAM Airlines Group… Read More »
Greece’s Olympus Airways retires 757s
Olympus Airways (OLY, Athens Int’l) has retired both of its B757-200(PCF)s as it plans to restructure its fleet around passenger… Read More »
UK’s Eastern Airways wins northern Scottish PSO contract
Eastern Airways (T3, Humberside) has been selected as the operator for a new Public Service Obligation route between Wick and… Read More »
Wizz Air to extract four aircraft grounded in Ukraine
Wizz Air (W6, Budapest) plans to extract as soon as possible four of its A320-200s trapped in Ukraine following the… Read More »
Norway’s Flyr takes first 737-8 Max
Flyr took delivery of its first Boeing 737-8 Max on February 21, 2022, after LN-FGF (msn 43324) was delivered directly… Read More »
Air India in widebody jet order talks with Airbus and Boeing
Tata Sons-owned Air India has been in talks with Airbus and Boeing as well as lessors about a potential order… Read More »
EU and U.S. sanctions aim to cripple Russian carriers
Having initially targeted Russia’s leasing sector, Western-backed sanctions have now taken aim at the country’s airline and aerospace sectors as… Read More »
Air New Zealand to seek capital amid record losses
Air New Zealand intends to stage a capital increase by the end of March 2022 “or shortly thereafter, subject to… Read More »
US’s Eastern Airlines secures first cargo deal
Eastern Airlines has announced the signing of an agreement with Flexport to operate its future 777 Express Freighter aircraft out… Read More »
Poland to ban Russian airlines from its airspace
Poland will ban all Russian air operators from using its airspace, the Polish prime minister, Mateusz Morawiecki, has announced. The… Read More »
US sanctions Russia’s SberLeasing
The US Department of Treasury Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has added the Russian state-owned bank Sberbank and 25… Read More »
Tanzania’s Flightlink Air Charters to add ATR72-500
Tanzania’s Flightlink Air Charters is in the process of adding its first ATR72-500, 5H-FLA (msn 703), Skyliner Aviation has reported…. Read More »
US private equity firms invest in Hawaii’s Kamaka Air
Kamaka Air (KMK, Honolulu) has new majority shareholding with 80% of the business having been sold to two US capital… Read More »
Ottawa grants C$10mn to two British Columbia carriers
British Columbian carriers Pacific Coastal Airlines (8P, Vancouver Int’l) and Central Mountain Air (9M, Smithers) are to benefit from more… Read More »