Hong Kong’s Greater Bay Airlines secures its AOC
Greater Bay Airlines (HGB, Hong Kong Int’l) is set to begin commercial flight operations after it secured its air operator’s… Read More »
Delhi chooses Tata Group for Air India takeoverq
Over three years after it first signalled its intention to divest itself of the loss-making carrier, Narendra Modi’s government has… Read More »
Ethiopian Airlines accused of ferrying arms to Eritrea
Ethiopian Airlines (ET, Addis Ababa) is alleged to have helped ship weapons, ammunition, and other military equipment from Addis Ababa… Read More »
US’s Spirit Airlines to lease 20 more A320neo Family jets
Spirit Airlines (NK, Fort Lauderdale Int’l) has secured twenty new-build A320neo Family jets on lease from AerCap. A statement released… Read More »
Emirates signs $750mn revenue-backed loan
Emirates (EK, Dubai Int’l) has signed a USD750 million five-year dual-tranche financing facility with Emirates NBD, a Dubai government-owned bank… Read More »
India’s SpiceJet to add up to 40 new passenger aircraft
SpiceJet (SG, Delhi Int’l) wants to add another 30 to 40 passenger aircraft, including 10 to 15 more widebodies, on… Read More »
Viet Nam to allow domestic flights to resume
After months of lockdown, Vietnamese airlines will resume domestic services from a number of cities on October 10 in line… Read More »
UK’s Jet2 orders 15 incremental A321neo
Jet2 plc, the parent holding of Jet2 (LS, Leeds/Bradford), has ordered fifteen incremental A321-200Ns, increasing its total order for the… Read More »
Norwegian reopens bases in Norway, to increase fleet
Norwegian (DY, Oslo Gardermoen) has declared that Norway is “opening up” with the government’s recent removal of pandemic control measures… Read More »
Qantas resumes intercontinental flights in mid 4Q21
Qantas (QF, Sydney Kingsford Smith) is bringing forward the restart of its international flights to November 14, 2021, following the… Read More »
Korean Air-Asiana merger may harm competition
Korea’s fair trade chief, Joh Sung-wook, has cast doubt on the planned merger between Korean Air (KE, Seoul Incheon) and… Read More »
AirAsia eyes all-A321neo fleet with order conversion
AirAsia Group has converted its thirteen remaining A320-200N orders into A321-200Ns as it looks to exclusively operate the latter type… Read More »
India’s Jet Airways volte-faces on B777 plans
Contrary to earlier indications that it would abandon the type, Jet Airways (JAI, Mumbai Int’l) is now contemplating reactivating some… Read More »
British Airways to second B777 pilots to Qatar Airways
British Airways (BA, London Heathrow) has notified its B777-rated pilots of a secondment opportunity at Qatar Airways (QR, Doha Hamad… Read More »
Tata to unite Air India, AirAsia India, Vistara – report
Budget airline AirAsia India (I5, Bangalore Int’l) would be united with Air India (AI, Mumbai Int’l) as a single entity… Read More »
Denmark’s DAT set to end all McDonnell Douglas ops
DAT (DX, Kolding) has announced it will retire its last MD-83 by the end of the year, with a farewell… Read More »
Iraq’s Fly Baghdad adds first B737-900
Fly Baghdad (IF, Baghdad) has taken delivery of its first B737-900(ER) following the arrival of OK-FTP (msn 35711) in Baghdad… Read More »
TUI Group ends B757 operations
TUI Airways (BY, London Luton) operated its last commercial B757 flight on October 3, 2021, and will henceforth focus on… Read More »
Qantas issues narrowbody fleet renewal RFP
Qantas Group says it has entered the final stages of a formal tender process with aircraft and engine manufacturers for… Read More »
US-Bangla Airlines to retire all Q400s
US-Bangla Airlines (BS, Dhaka) is planning to retire all three of its DHC-8-Q400s and has appointed ACC Aviation to remarket… Read More »
British Airways, pilots back in talks over Gatwick
British Airways (BA, London Heathrow) may reverse its decision to scrap short-haul flights from London Gatwick, following renewed “constructive” talks… Read More »
Air Seychelles goes into administration
Air Seychelles (HM, Mahé) has announced it is being restructured within the confines of the Indian Ocean archipelago’s bankruptcy protection… Read More »