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 »
Brazil’s Azul inducts first fully converted E195 freighter
Azul Linhas Aéreas Brasileiras (AD, Sao Paulo Viracopos) has completed the conversion and certification of the world’s first E195 dedicated… Read More »
Canada’s Swoop to add six 737 MAX in 2022
Swoop (WO, Hamilton, ON) will add six new B737-8s ahead of the peak summer 2022 season to facilitate planned network… Read More »
US union objects to Wizz Air’s US plans
The union representing American Airlines pilots is opposing plans by European low-cost carrier Wizz Air (W6, Budapest) to launch cargo… Read More »
US’s Silver Airways raises $50mn, absorbs subsidiary
Silver Airways (3M, Fort Lauderdale Int’l) has successfully raised USD50 million in fresh capital from Brigade Capital Management and at… Read More »
Icelandair sues Kelowna Flightcraft for negligence
Icelandair (FI, Reykjavik Keflavik) has filed suit in the British Columbia Supreme Court against Canadian approved maintenance organisation Kelowna Flightcraft… Read More »
US’s Sun Country Airlines eyes more used 737-800s
Sun Country Airlines (SY, Minneapolis/St. Paul) is planning to add eight second-hand B737-800s to its fleet this year, seven of… Read More »
Aeroméxico to reclaim loyalty scheme for $408mn
Grupo Aeroméxico will pay up to CAD517 million Canadian dollars (USD408 million) to Montreal-based investment firm Aimia to reclaim its… Read More »
UK’s DHL Air takes first Boeing 777-200LRF
DHL Air (D0, East Midlands) has inducted its first Boeing 777-200F into service after G-DHLY (msn 67138) was ferried from… Read More »
BlackRock blocks bookkeeping votes at India’s SpiceJet
American investment leviathan BlackRock and other SpiceJet (SG, Delhi Int’l) investors have expressed alarm over corporate governance practices and “substantial… Read More »
AirAsia India obtains international permit
AirAsia India (I5, Bangalore Int’l) has obtained international flying rights and is now aiming to launch a service between Kochi… Read More »
Cobham Aviation Services Australia to be sold
Boston-based private equity firm Advent International is moving to sell off specialist operator Cobham Aviation Services Australia – Regional (JTE,… Read More »
US’s Northern Pacific adds 757s, touts stopover model
Northern Pacific Airways (Anchorage Ted Stevens) will focus a business model of using Boeing 757 equipment to ferry passengers between… Read More »