Biman Bangladesh issues Summer 2022 widebody ACMI RFP
Biman Bangladesh Airlines (BG, Dhaka) has issued a request for proposals (RFP) for the wet-lease of up to two widebody… Read More »
Indonesia Air Transport to start commercial flight ops
Indonesia Air Transport – IAT (IDA, Jakarta Halim) is set to venture into the commercial flight operations niche after being… Read More »
Cathay Pacific cancels longhaul cargo flights for seven days
Cathay Pacific (CX, Hong Kong Int’l) has confirmed it has suspended all long-haul cargo flights for seven days until January… Read More »
Pilot shortage forces United to suspend 15 regional routes
United Airlines (UA, Chicago O’Hare) is temporarily dropping 15 regional routes and shifting some services to New York Newark from… Read More »
Norse Atlantic Airways secures its Norwegian AOC
Norse Atlantic Airways (Oslo Gardermoen) secured its Norwegian Air Operator’s Certificate (AOC) – NO.AOC.093 – on December 29, 2021, bringing… Read More »
Austrian Airlines repays €60mn of COVID aid by year-end
Austrian Airlines (OS, Vienna) will have repaid EUR60 million euros (USD68 million) or 20% of its EUR300 million (USD340 million)… Read More »
Wizz Air outlines Gatwick plans having secured 15 more slots
Wizz Air Holdings has outlined its plans for the 15 daily London Gatwick slot pairs it acquired from Norwegian Group… Read More »
Bahrain’s Texel Air takes delivery of first 737-800(BCF)
Texel Air (XLR, Bahrain Int’l) took delivery of its first B737-800(BCF) on December 19, 2021. N851BC (msn 29985) is a… Read More »
AirAsia Group completes $233mn rights issue
AirAsia Group will complete its renounceable rights issue to shareholders on December 31, raising MYR974.5 million ringgit (USD233.3 million) and… Read More »
World’s last A320ceo Family jet delivered – to Delta
Delta Air Lines (DL, Atlanta Hartsfield Jackson) took delivery of the world’s last new-build A321-200 – its 127th of the… Read More »
Colombo must privatise SriLankan Airlines
Sri Lanka’s State-owned Enterprise Restructuring Board has advised the government to suspend state assistance and restructure SriLankan Airlines (UL, Colombo… Read More »
Tigerair Taiwan applies for stock exchange listing
Tigerair Taiwan (IT, Taipei Taoyuan) has applied to the Taiwan Stock Exchange to list its shares on the main board… Read More »
US carriers in uproar over Icelandair US-Cuba charter plans
Icelandair (FI, Reykjavik Keflavik) has applied to the US Department of Transportation (DOT) for authority to operate 170 round-trip charter… Read More »
Pakistan’s AirSial secures int’l traffic rights
AirSial (PF, Karachi Int’l) launched its first international charter passenger flight from Lahore Int’l, Pakistan to Dubai Int’l in the… Read More »
Air Serbia plots turboprop fleet renewal in 2022
Air Serbia (JU, Belgrade) is planning to resume its turboprop fleet renewal programme in 2022 but remains ready to adapt… Read More »
Argentina to bring back fare bands for domestic flights
The Argentine government has declared that within 180 days it will set maximum fare prices and a system of fare… Read More »
India’s SpiceXpress eyes electric fleet by 2024
SpiceXpress – the cargo division currently being spun off by parent SpiceJet (SG, Delhi Int’l) – has confirmed it is… Read More »
AirAsia India pays all debts to airport operator
AirAsia India (I5, Bangalore Int’l) has paid its debts for air navigation, landing and parking fees, and other tariffs to… Read More »
Qantas returns A380 to service ahead of schedule
Qantas (QF, Sydney Kingsford Smith) will fast-track the return of its A380-800 service from January 11 to relieve B787-9 pilots… Read More »
Regulator gives tentative nod to Asiana-Korean Air deal
South Korea’s Fair Trade Commission (FTC) has tentatively given its conditional approval to the proposed merger between Asiana Airlines (OZ,… Read More »
US’s National Airlines considers options for fleet growth
National Airlines (N8, Orlando Sanford) is planning to significantly increase its fleet in the coming years, mainly targeting dedicated freighters,… Read More »
Party proposes Air Europa become Balearics’ “public airline”
Més per Mallorca, part of the ruling coalition in the Balearic Islands, would like to see the Spanish government in… Read More »