Papua New Guinea bans India, Garuda Indonesia flights
Papua New Guinea has banned flights from India and barred both Garuda Indonesia (GA, Jakarta Soekarno-Hatta) and Hong-Kong-based charter specialist… Read More »
Aer Lingus (UK) completes licencing, defers launch to 4Q21
Aer Lingus (United Kingdom) (Belfast City) received its Operating Licence (OL) from the UK Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) on August… Read More »
Swiss repays CHF50mn of emergency loan despite heavy losses
Swiss (LX, Zurich) has already repaid CHF50 million francs (USD54.4 million) of a CHF1.5 billion (USD1.6 billion) government-guaranteed emergency loan… Read More »
Panama’s Copa Air to convert two B737-800s into freighters
Copa Airlines (CM, Panamá City Tocumen Int’l) is set to again operate in-house dedicated freighters after more than two decades… Read More »
Romania’s Blue Air to enter the UK leisure market
Blue Air (Romania) (0B, Bucharest Otopeni) has announced it will enter the coveted United Kingdom leisure market with services from London Heathrow to Nice starting on… Read More »
US court asked to enforce $320m claim against Argentina
A long-standing legal dispute over the renationalisation of Aerolineas Argentinas (AR, Buenos Aires Ezeiza) and its then sister airline, Austral (AU, Buenos Aires Aeroparque), has resurfaced… Read More »
India lifts B737 MAX ban to benefit of SpiceJet, Akasa Air
India’s civil aviation regulator, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA), announced on August 26 that it had cleared Boeing’s B737-8 and B737-9 aircraft to… Read More »
Court grants India’s SpiceJet relief over $10.86mn tax debt
A court has granted SpiceJet (SG, Delhi Int’l) partial relief from a demand from India’s Department of Revenue that it immediately pay a Goods and… Read More »
Qantas to reactivate A380s in 2022, waits with A350ULR order
Qantas (QF, Sydney Kingsford Smith) is planning to reactivate several A380-800s next year but will wait before committing to its tentative A350-1000(ULR) order until… Read More »
Etihad bondholders file Air Seychelles winding-up petition
Bondholders at EA Partners II, a Netherlands-based special purpose vehicle belonging to Etihad Aviation Group, have filed a winding-up petition against Air… Read More »
Nigeria’s Green Africa Airways in ownership court challenge
Barely two weeks after lift-off, Nigerian startup Green Africa Airways (Q9, Lagos) faces an ownership challenge in the Federal High Court in Lagos… Read More »
IAI, Etihad to open B777 P2F conversion site in Abu Dhabi
Israel Aerospace Industries (Tel Aviv Ben Gurion) has partnered with Etihad Engineering, the maintenance, repair, and overhaul (MRO) wing of Etihad Aviation… Read More »
Malaysia’s Kargo Xpress to add two B737-800(BCF)s
Kargo Xpress (KXP, Kuala Lumpur Int’l) has ordered two B737-800(BCF)s from GECAS with deliveries scheduled for October 2021 and January 2022, respectively. The two Boeing freighters will… Read More »
South African Airways details relaunch plans due in 3Q21
South African Airways (SA, Johannesburg O.R. Tambo) has confirmed it will resume commercial passenger operations on September 23 on one domestic and… Read More »
Ryanair pulls out of Northern Ireland over tax issues
Ryanair (FR, Dublin Int’l) has blamed UK passenger taxes and a lack of COVID-19 recovery incentives for its decision to pull out… Read More »
Israel to give El Al, Arkia, Israir more loans
Less than four weeks after Israel’s airlines appealed for more government funding, the Ministry of Finance said it had agreed in principle… Read More »
Philippine Airlines returns aircraft, defers deliveries
Philippine Airlines (PR, Manila Ninoy Aquino Int’l) returned two unspecified aircraft to lessors in July 2021 and deferred all deliveries of new… Read More »
Staff at India’s Jet Airways challenge consortium’s revival
Cabin crew and ground staff at Jet Airways (JAI, Mumbai Int’l) have united to challenge the Kalrock-Jalan consortium’s proposal to… Read More »
European budget carriers refute Italian regulator’s claims
Budget carriers Ryanair, Wizz Air, Volotea, and easyJet have hit back at the Italian civil aviation authority (Ente Nazionale per… Read More »
New Zealand’s Air Chathams to end Convair ops in late 3Q21
Air Chathams (3C, Chatham Island) has continued to deploy its sole remaining Convair CV-580 on domestic New Zealand cargo runs… Read More »
Republic of Congo’s Africa Airlines commences flight ops
Africa Airlines (Congo) (Brazzaville) began scheduled flight operations on Saturday, August 21, shortly after having secured its AOC from the… Read More »
Amelia Int’l wins five-year Mayotte medevac contract
Amelia International (NL, Ljubljana) has won a five-year contract to provide medevac services between the French Indian Ocean departments of… Read More »
Delta Air Lines orders 30 Airbus A321neo
Delta Air Lines (DL, Atlanta Hartsfield Jackson) has converted thirty A321-200N purchase rights into firm orders, increasing the total commitment… Read More »
Kenya’s African Express Airways enters airport squabble
African Express Airways (XU, Nairobi Jomo Kenyatta) has entered an ongoing property squabble between Kenya Airways and local carrier 748… Read More »
Hanoi cancels Globaltrans Air’s business licence
The Vietnamese Ministry of Transport has cancelled Globaltrans Air’s business licence, a start-up that planned to operate as a business… Read More »
Denmark’s Copenhagen AirTaxi takes first CRJ900
Copenhagen AirTaxi (CAT, Copenhagen Roskilde) took delivery of its first CRJ900LR on August 16, 2021, and will operate it… Read More »