LATAM looks to settle decade-long Colombian Q300 dispute
LATAM Airlines Group has asked the US Bankruptcy Court in New York to approve a USD9.55 million settlement agreement between… Read More »
Air Canada partially reverses A220 order cancellation
Air Canada (AC, Montréal Trudeau) has announced it has reversed its 2020 decision to cancel an order for two A220-300s… Read More »
Ljubljana solicits, rejects offers for new Slovene carrier
Slovenia’s Ministry of Economic Development and Technology received proposals from six airlines to establish a new flag carrier – or… Read More »
Norway’s Flyr to raise $29mn more funding after 3Q21 loss
Flyr (FS, Oslo Gardermoen) earned “significantly lower than expected” revenue during the third quarter and now intends to conduct an… Read More »
Canada’s Pivot Airlines outlines scheduled ops in 1Q22
Pivot Airlines (GGN, Toronto Pearson) will launch scheduled services from Kitchener to Ottawa Int’l and Montréal Trudeau early next year,… Read More »
Malaysia’s SKS Airways to launch in 4Q21
SKS Airways (SJB, Johor Bahru) has said it will launch scheduled operations “sometime in December 2021”, two years later than… Read More »
Viet Nam set to phase in international travel
Viet Nam is to implement a phased resumption of international commercial flights with ten countries greenlighted in the current quarter… Read More »
Bahrain’s MENA Cargo Airlines eyes 737-800 freighters
MENA Cargo Airlines (Bahrain Int’l) plans to add at least three B737-800 freighters over the coming months with the first… Read More »
Nigerian MPs sue Azman Air for $12mn over delayed flight
Azman Air (AZM, Kano) is reportedly in trouble with authorities again after lawmakers filed a NGN5 billion naira (USD12.1 million)… Read More »
British Airways secures union nod for Gatwick subsidiary
British Airways (BA, London Heathrow) will go ahead with plans to set up a London Gatwick-based subsidiary to operate short-haul… Read More »
AirAsia charters 737-800(BCF), eyes A321neo freighters
AirAsia Group has chartered in its first dedicated freighter, a B737-800(BCF) operated by Thailand’s K-Mile Asia (8K, Bangkok Suvarnabhumi), for… Read More »
easyJet to resume German domestic ops in late 4Q21
easyJet Europe (EC, Vienna) is set to re-enter the German domestic market on December 1, 2021, when it will launch… Read More »
Australia’s Pacific Air Express retires only aircraft
Pacific Air Express (Australia) (PE, Brisbane Int’l) has retired its only active aircraft, B757-200(PCF) VH-PQA (msn 22611), and effectively suspended… Read More »
Lufthansa considering A220s, E2s
Lufthansa (LH, Frankfurt Int’l) is looking at the A220 and E2 families as it evaluates options for the renewal of… Read More »
US’s Ravn Alaska changes legal name
Ravn Alaska (7H, Anchorage Ted Stevens) has changed its corporate name from Corvus Airlines, Inc. to Northern Pacific Airways, Inc…. Read More »
Norwegian to lease 13 more 737s, eyes Airbus
As it continues to report “a steady increase in passenger numbers,” Norwegian (DY, Oslo Gardermoen) has resolved to “selectively add… Read More »
Avianca confirms UK shift after court accepts exit plan
Avianca Holdings will restructure into a new company named Avianca Group International Limited (Avianca Group) incorporated in the United Kingdom… Read More »
Japan Airlines foresees end to cash burn, $1.3bn loss
As it posted a JPY151.8 billion yen (USD1.35 billion) EBIT loss for the first half of its 2021-22 financial year,… Read More »
FedEx Express to establish Dubai World hub
FedEx Express (FX, Memphis Int’l) is to build a new regional hub at Dubai South, the logistics district located close… Read More »
AHL makes mandatory offer for Air Mauritius shares
Mauritius’s state-controlled Airport Holdings Ltd (AHL) – the largest shareholder of Air Mauritius (MK, Mauritius) – has announced that, as… Read More »
Lagos court orders First Nation boss to stand trial on fraud
The Special Offences Court in Ikeja, Lagos has ordered First Nation Airways (FRN, Lagos) chairman and chief executive Kayode Odukoya… Read More »
Bangladesh’s Air Astra secures its NOC
Air Astra says it has received its no-objection certificate (NOC) from the Civil Aviation Authority of Bangladesh (CAAB) on November… Read More »
ATSG to convert four owned 767-300(ER)s
Air Transport Services Group has placed an order with Boeing for the conversion of four B767-300(ER)s owned by the holding… Read More »
Kenya set to auction off 73 derelict aircraft
The Kenya Airports Authority (KAA) has announced the public auction later this month of 73 derelict aircraft abandoned at various… Read More »
Brazil’s Azul readies bid for entire LATAM group
Azul Linhas Aéreas Brasileiras (AD, Sao Paulo Viracopos) “would buy the entire asset” of bankrupt LATAM Airlines Group, not just… Read More »
India’s Vistara eyes London-Newark flights
Having secured its US Foreign Air Carrier Permit (FACP) in late August, India’s Vistara (UK, Delhi Int’l) has now disclosed… Read More »