Switzerland’s Chair Airlines adds first A320
Chair Airlines (GM, Zurich) took delivery of its first A320-200, its largest type yet, on December 12, 2021, after HB-JOK… Read More »
Singapore Airlines inks LOI for 7+5 A350 freighters
Singapore Airlines (SQ, Singapore Changi) has signed a Letter of Intent with Airbus (AIB, Toulouse Blagnac) for the purchase of… Read More »
United Airlines moots hydrogen-powered CRJ550s
United Airlines (UA, Chicago O’Hare) has taken a USD35 million equity stake in hydrogen-electric engine developer ZeroAvia (Hollister) and has… Read More »
Air New Zealand receives another $338mn state loan
Air New Zealand (NZ, Auckland Int’l) has been given access to another NZD500 million New Zealand dollars (USD338 million) in… Read More »
UAE backs down in slot row with Nigeria
In what appears to be a reconciliatory move to resolve a diplomatic dispute between Nigeria and the United Arab Emirates… Read More »
Aer Lingus (UK) begins narrowbody transatlantic operations
Aer Lingus (United Kingdom) (Belfast City) took delivery of its first narrowbody aircraft, an A321-200NX(XLR), last month and inducted it… Read More »
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 »
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 »
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 »