Delta rejigs LATAM Airlines Group, Aeromexico ownership
Delta Air Lines (DL, Atlanta Hartsfield Jackson) is re-organising its shareholding in Grupo Aeroméxico and the LATAM Airlines Group along… Read More »
US’s Southern Airways Express orders 20 Regent Seagliders
Southern Airways Express (9X, Memphis Int’l) has signed a USD250 million deal for twenty all-electric Regent Craft Seagliders, a new… Read More »
Virgin Atlantic receives $528mn boost from shareholders
Virgin Atlantic (VS, London Heathrow) is to emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic with a bolstered balance sheet following a fresh… Read More »
Taiwan’s Mandarin Airlines set to end E190 operations
Mandarin Airlines (AE, Taichung Ching Chuan Kang) has accelerated the planned retirement of its E190 fleet and will conclude the… Read More »
St. Maarten’s Winair secures added $1.5mn Dutch gov’t loan
The Dutch government has decided to grant another USD1.5 million loan to help struggling Winair (WM, St. Maarten) survive but… Read More »
Ukraine Int’l Airlines to damp-lease a 767 for longhaul ops
Ukraine International Airlines (PS, Kyiv Boryspil) has announced it will damp-lease a B767-300(ER) from Portugal’s euroAtlantic Airways (YU, Lisbon) to… Read More »
American Airlines trims 2022 network due to 787 delays
American Airlines (AA, Dallas/Fort Worth) has announced a series of network cuts owing to B787 production line issues at Boeing… Read More »
Cathay Pacific to move pilots to US to avoid quarantine
Cathay Pacific (CX, Hong Kong Int’l) is trialling the temporary placement in Los Angeles Int’l, US of its B777 pilots… Read More »
Malta’s Corendon Airlines Europe eyes US charters
Corendon Airlines Europe (XR, Malta Int’l) plans to launch charter flights to the United States, its application for a US… Read More »
Japan mulls $616mn aid to airlines next fiscal year
Japanese airlines could receive further state aid totalling JPY70 billion yen (USD616 million) during the 2022 fiscal year starting in… Read More »
Ryanair to re-open Nuremberg base in summer 2022
Ryanair (FR, Dublin Int’l) will re-open a base in Nuremberg in southern Germany next summer with two aircraft, opening 13… Read More »
US’s Connect Airlines eyes hydrogen propulsion for Dash 8s
Connect Airlines (Bedford, MA) has signed a letter of intent (LOI) with Los Angeles-based Universal Hydrogen Co. for the conversion… Read More »
France’s Flying Green plots 2023 launch with A320neo
Flying Green is planning to debut operations out of Paris Orly in the second quarter of 2023 using an initial… Read More »
Airbus seeks legal advice in A350 row with Qatar Airways
Airbus (AIB, Toulouse Blagnac) has said it will seek independent legal assessment to resolve the dispute over the non-structural paint… Read More »
Air Belgium to add 747-8 freighters in early 2022
Air Belgium (KF, Brussels Charleroi) says it is planning to add an unspecified number of B747-8Fs in early 2022 as… Read More »
Philippines AirAsia resumes international flights
Philippines AirAsia (Z2, Manila Ninoy Aquino Int’l) has resumed international flights with an inaugural service to Singapore Changi following a… Read More »
Viet Nam reopens for limited international travel
Viet Nam will re-open for international commercial air travel in stages from December 15 for travellers from a number of… Read More »
Belarus touts retaliatory sanctions against EU, UK airlines
The Government of Belarus will impose retaliatory sanctions on airlines from the European Union and the United Kingdom in retaliation… Read More »
Philippines AirAsia resumes international flights
Philippines AirAsia (Z2, Manila Ninoy Aquino Int’l) has resumed international flights with an inaugural service to Singapore Changi following a… Read More »
Garuda Indonesia granted creditor protection
Garuda Indonesia (GA, Jakarta Soekarno-Hatta) has been granted protection from creditor claims, with the Central Jakarta Commercial Court giving the… Read More »
US’s Ultimate Air Shuttle suspends flight operations
Ultimate Air Shuttle (UE, Cincinnati Lunken) will suspend scheduled flights from its bases at Cincinnati Lunken and Cleveland Burke Lakefront… Read More »
Air France-KLM mulls shelving planned cap increase
Another tide of government travel restrictions to curb the spread of the Omicron variant of the coronavirus, along with potential… Read More »
Gov’t warns Air Tanzania board to stay compliant
The Tanzanian government has warned the new board of Air Tanzania (TC, Dar es Salaam) that it will be monitoring… Read More »
Proflight Zambia adds first CRJ200LR for regional expansion
Proflight Zambia (P0, Lusaka) is doubling its regional capacity with the addition of its first CRJ200LR in mid-December, with operations… Read More »
Ecuador’s Equair adds first aircraft 737-700
Equair (Quito Int’l) took delivery of its first aircraft, a B737-700, on December 4, two weeks ahead of its first… Read More »
Serious drag on Korean Air-Asiana merger, LCCs anxious
The planned merger of Korean Air (KE, Seoul Incheon) and Asiana Airlines (OZ, Seoul Incheon) is likely to take longer… Read More »