Canada’s Enerjet rebrands as Lynx Air, eyes 2Q22 debut
Canadian budget startup Lynx Air is to debut early next year with a fleet of three new B737 MAX on… Read More »
Kenya Airways looks to gov’t to absorb $250mn debt mountain
Kenya Airways (KQ, Nairobi Jomo Kenyatta) is in discussion with the country’s treasury over the settlement of the airline’s USD250… Read More »
UK’s Virgin Atlantic keen to return to Gatwick
Virgin Atlantic (VS, London Heathrow) would be keen to return to London Gatwick as travel demand returns after having suspended… Read More »
ASL Aviation Holdings to explore hydrogen-powered ATRs
ASL Aviation Holdings has signed an agreement with start-up ZeroAvia (Hollister) to explore the conversion of ASL’s Avions de Transport… Read More »
Spain’s Canarian Airways resumes ops after name change
Lattitude Hub (OX, Tenerife Sur) has reinforced its connections between Tenerife Sur and both Madrid Barajas and Bilbao for the… Read More »
Malé, Maldives slot changes disrupt airline schedules
Malé Velana International Airport, the main international airport in the Maldives, has extended the minimum time between landings for international… Read More »
Emirates mulls IPO for itself or one of its units
Emirates (EK, Dubai Int’l) or one of its subsidiaries could soon be listed on the Dubai Financial Market stock exchange,… Read More »
Tigerair Taiwan to resume operations in late 4Q21
Tigerair Taiwan (IT, Taipei Taoyuan) has announced the resumption of commercial in-house operations on December 25, 2021, with an initial… Read More »
Gabon’s Afrijet orders three ATR72-600s
Afrijet Business Service (J7, Libreville) has finalised a purchase agreement with Avions de Transport Régional covering three ATR72-600s. A statement… Read More »
Japan’s Toki Air inks LOI for STOL-capable ATR42-600S
Toki Air (Niigata) has signed a letter of intent with Avions de Transport Régional over the possibility of acquiring the… Read More »
Singapore’s Scoot launches 5th-freedom London route
Scoot (TR, Singapore Changi) has announced it will begin operating a fifth-freedom route between Bangkok Suvarnabhumi and London Gatwick, initially… Read More »
easyJet Switzerland adds first A320neo
easyJet Switzerland (DS, Geneva) took delivery of its first A320-200N on November 9, 2021, and began its commercial operations on… Read More »
Canada’s Jetlines to launch in late 1Q22
Jetlines (CJL, Vancouver Int’l) has announced it will launch operations in March 2022, albeit initially as a virtual carrier chartering… Read More »
Singapore Airlines to debut 737 MAX 8 ops in 4Q21
Singapore Airlines (SQ, Singapore Changi) plans to begin revenue operations of its six B737-8s, taken over from merged subsidiary SilkAir,… Read More »
India’s Akasa Air orders 72 Boeing 737 MAX
Akasa Air has placed an order with Boeing (BOE, Chicago O’Hare) for seventy-two B737 MAX jets during the ongoing 2021… Read More »
Nigeria’s Ibom Air orders ten A220s
Ibom Air (QI, Uyo) has placed an order for ten A220s with Airbus (AIB, Toulouse Blagnac) during the 2021 Dubai… Read More »
Air Tanzania confirms Boeing 737 MAX, 787, 767 freighter plans
The Tanzanian government has reached an agreement with Boeing (BOE, Chicago O’Hare) for the purchase of four aircraft including one… Read More »
Embraer, Widerøe to partner on electric urban mobility
Eve Urban Mobility Solutions owned by Embraer and Widerøe Zero, a unit of Widerøe, signed a Memorandum of Understanding to… Read More »
Kuwait’s Jazeera Airways inks MOU for 33 A320neo Family jets
Jazeera Airways (J9, Kuwait) has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Airbus (AIB, Toulouse Blagnac) for up to 33… Read More »
South Africa’s Mango to be mothballed until investor found
Mango Airlines (JE, Johannesburg O.R. Tambo) will be mothballed for a lengthy period while it seeks a new investor after… Read More »
Lufthansa repays all of German gov’t bailout funds
Lufthansa (LH, Frankfurt Int’l) has announced it repaid “much earlier than originally planned” the last of its EUR9 billion euro… Read More »
Aeromexico’s new plan includes Apollo debt-to-equity option
In what is described as a key milestone in its restructuring process, Grupo Aeroméxico has received a new proposal to… Read More »
Saudia eyes large widebody order in 2022
Saudia (SV, Jeddah) is planning to place a large widebody order in 2022 and is in advanced talks with both… Read More »
Sri Lanka’s Fly Lankan Asia eyes regional cargo, pax ops
Fly Lankan Asia (Colombo Int’l) is planning to target the short-haul cargo and passenger services niche and has already secured… Read More »
Nigeria’s Overland Airways orders three E175s
Overland Airways (OF, Lagos) has ordered three E175s from Embraer (EMB, Sao Jose dos Campos) with options for three more…. Read More »
Emirates to add six Boeing 777 freighters
Emirates (EK, Dubai Int’l) has ordered two B777-Fs from Boeing and four B777-300(ER)(SF)s from Israel Aerospace Industries. Neither Emirates nor… Read More »