Mississippi’s Contour Airlines returns to Indianapolis plans
Contour Airlines (LF, Tupelo) has announced three new regional routes out of Indianapolis Int’l in what it touted as its… Read More »
Australia’s Rex threatens legal action against Qantas
Rex – Regional Express (ZL, Wagga Wagga) has announced it has appointed a high-profile law firm “to pursue all legal… Read More »
Harstad-Narvik, Norway sees first scheduled TATL service
Virgin Atlantic (VS, London Heathrow) has launched a scheduled one-way cargo-only route from Harstad-Narvik in northern Norway to New York… Read More »
South African court postpones Mango business rescue case
A court application by three South African labour unions to have Mango Airlines (JE, Johannesburg O.R. Tambo) placed in bankruptcy… Read More »
United Airlines ramps up London service
With the United Kingdom having re-opened to fully vaccinated travellers from the US from August 2, United Airlines (UA, Chicago… Read More »
Air Tanzania takes world’s last new-build Dash 8-400
Air Tanzania (TC, Dar es Salaam) has taken delivery of the last new-build DHC-8-Q400 to roll off the De Havilland… Read More »
Ryanair challenges €650mn Polish state aid to LOT
Ryanair (FR, Dublin Int’l) has lodged another complaint at the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) against airlines… Read More »
Qatar Airways reactivates A330s
Qatar Airways (QR, Doha Hamad Int’l) has begun reactivating some of its previously mothballed A330s in order to primarily deploy… Read More »
US’s Allegiant Air to add ten second-hand A320-200s
Allegiant Air (G4, Las Vegas McCarran) has signed a commitment with Air Lease Corporation to add ten second-hand A320-200s between… Read More »
US’s Neptune Aviation Services puts sole ARJ-100 up for sale
Neptune Aviation Services (Missoula) has put its only ARJ100 AT, N479NA (msn E3282), up for sale. The Montana-based aerial firefighting… Read More »
Labour accuses SA gov’t of strong-arming them over Mango
Labour unions have accused the South African government of strong-arm tactics, claiming it is with-holding bridging finance to stricken Mango… Read More »
Iceland’s BlueBird Nordic to add 25 B737 freighters
Bluebird Nordic (BO, Reykjavik Keflavik) has unveiled plans to dramatically scale up its fleet to include twenty-five B737-800 freighters by… Read More »
US’s ExpressJet to restart by mid-4Q21
ExpressJet Airlines (EV, Atlanta Hartsfield Jackson) has announced it will restart commercial operations by November 2021 after having been granted… Read More »
Tailwind Air connects Manhattan and Boston by seaplane
Air taxi operator Tailwind Air Service (PGN, Farmingdale) has announced the launch of the first nonstop seaplane connection from New… Read More »
Romania’s Blue Air consolidates Milan base
Romanian low-cost carrier Blue Air (Romania) (0B, Bucharest Otopeni) has announced it is expanding its services from its Italian base… Read More »
Rossiya prepares to resume ops to Egyptian resorts
Rossiya (FV, St. Petersburg) will launch scheduled flights from Moscow to the Egyptian Red Sea resorts of Hurghada and Sharm… Read More »
Germany’s SundAir wet-leases an A319
SundAir (SR, Berlin Brandenburg Int’l) has wet-leased an A319-100 from Croatia Airlines (OU, Zagreb) to complement the four it operates… Read More »
Unions stave off final liquidation of SA Express
South African trade unions have once again managed to stave off the final liquidation of defunct state regional carrier South… Read More »
Fiji Airways exits two A330-200s ahead of lease-end date
Fiji Airways (FJ, Nadi) has exited two A330-200s from its fleet a few months ahead of their original lease end-date…. Read More »
Ex-IndiGo, Jet Airways chiefs join ‘Indian Ryanair’ start-up
Aditya Ghosh, president of IndiGo Airlines (6E, Delhi Int’l) for ten years from August 2008 to July 2018 and known… Read More »
American Airlines eyes minority stake in Chile’s JetSMART
American Airlines (AA, Dallas/Fort Worth) has announced a new partnership with JetSMART (JA, Santiago de Chile Int’l) entailing both an… Read More »
Airbus launches A350 freighter
Airbus (AIB, Toulouse Blagnac) has formally confirmed it will proceed with the construction of an A350 freighter variant with a… Read More »
Court stops Kenya Airways from evicting 748 Air Services
In a continuation of a property dispute between Kenya Airways and 748 Air Services, a Kenya court has made an… Read More »
Bangladesh’s Regent Airways to return with ATR turbo-props
Regent Airways (RX, Dhaka) plans to restart operations with Avions de Transport Régional turbo-props after selling off its two B737-800s,… Read More »
El Al asks gov’t permission to postpone $105mn offering
El Al Israel Airlines (LY, Tel Aviv Ben Gurion) has asked Israel’s Ministry of Finance for permission to postpone its… Read More »
India’s SpiceJet and Go First granted US$20.5mn state aid
SpiceJet (SG, Delhi Int’l) and Go First (G8, Mumbai Int’l) have been granted state aid of INR1.2 billion rupees (USD17.1… Read More »