Canada’s Sunwing cancels domestic summer schedule
Canada’s Sunwing Airlines (WG, Toronto Pearson) has cancelled all its domestic flights for the summer because of ongoing COVID-19 travel… Read More »
Nigeria vows to get tough on aviation sector debt
The Nigerian federal government plans to clamp down on debtors in the aviation sector following outstanding accumulated debt of NGN37… Read More »
TAP Air Portugal sharply reduces retrenchment target
TAP Air Portugal (TP, Lisbon) has announced a sharp reduction in the number of employees to be retrenched in line… Read More »
Wing of Zion, Israeli Air Force’s VIP B767, may be sold
The Israeli Air Force (IAF, Tel Aviv Ben Gurion) may have to sell Wing of Zion, the State of Israel’s… Read More »
Canada’s PAL secures essential First Nation route contract
PAL Airlines (Canada) (PB, St. John’s) has been awarded a contract by the Canadian government to continue providing specialised turboprop… Read More »
Port au Prince, Haiti reopens for international traffic
Port au Prince Toussaint Louverture International Airport, Haiti, has re-opened to commercial flights after it was temporarily closed last week… Read More »
Mexican investors seek stake in Aeroméxico
Grupo Aeroméxico announced in a stock filing on July 9 that “a group of Mexican shareholders” had signalled its intention… Read More »
Asiana-Korean Air merger to cost $522mn extra
The integration of Korean Air (KE, Seoul Incheon) and Asiana Airlines (OZ, Seoul Incheon) will cost about KRW600 billion won… Read More »
Thai Airways’ administrators approve capital reduction
Thai Airways International administrators have approved a previously announced reduction in the carrier’s registered capital from THB27 billion baht (USD829.6… Read More »
AirAsia to raise up to $244mn in rights issue
AirAsia Group has revealed plans to raise up to MYR1.024 billion ringgit (USD244 million) through a renounceable rights issue, with… Read More »
US’s iAero Airways adds first B737-800(SF)
iAero Airways (SWQ, Greensboro) has acquired its first of two B737-800(SF)s after N859AM (msn 32796) was ferried to Greensboro from… Read More »
Canada’s Flair Airlines in court action over MAX leases
Flair Airlines (F8, Kelowna) will vigorously defend a lawsuit filed by one of its shareholders over its fleet expansion plans… Read More »
Canada’s Porter Airlines orders E195-E2s, drops A220 plans
Porter Airlines (PD, Toronto City Centre) is set to begin E2 operations after sister firm Porter Aircraft Leasing placed a… Read More »
Bulgaria Air Group gets greenlight for $9mn bond issuance
Bulgaria Air (FB, Sofia) parent firm Bulgarian Airways Group EAD has been given the go-ahead to issue an ordinary interest-bearing… Read More »
Florida’s Silver Airways to enter freighter market in 3Q21
Silver Airways (3M, Fort Lauderdale Int’l) is set to add its first dedicated freighters, Avions de Transport Régional turboprops of… Read More »
Ulaanbaatar Chinggis Khaan Int’l, Mongolia opens to traffic
Mongolia’s new Ulaanbaatar Int’l airport has officially opened for commercial operations in what is being hailed a significant development for… Read More »
SAS to begin A321neo(LR) ops in late 3Q21
SAS Scandinavian Airlines (SK, Copenhagen Kastrup) will begin A321-200NX(LR) operations towards the end of the current summer season, just under… Read More »
Cairn obtains order to seize Indian properties in Paris
Cairn Energy has secured a French court order giving it the right to seize around 20 properties in central Paris… Read More »
Finnair to open Stockholm base in 4Q21 for longhaul ops
Finnair (AY, Helsinki Vantaa) has announced it will launch three intercontinental routes from Stockholm Arlanda, its first such flights from… Read More »
Aer Lingus’s British unit secures AOC
Aer Lingus (United Kingdom) (Belfast City) received its Air Operator’s Certificate (AOC) from the United Kingdom Civil Aviation Authority (CAA)… Read More »
UK’s Oryx Jet ends B737-300 operations
Oryx Jet (London Luton), a British virtual passenger charter specialist, has retired its only B737-300, Skyliner Aviation has reported. 9H-ZAK… Read More »
South Africa’s Pambele Aviation lands Guernsey investor
Guernsey-based Pula Aviation Ltd, the majority shareholder of Pula Aviation Services Ltd, has acquired a shareholding in Pambele Aviation (PMX,… Read More »
Georgian Airways takes over B737-700 from subsidiary
Georgian Airways (A9, Tbilisi) resumed B737-700 operations on July 1, 2021, following a two-year hiatus. 4L-GTI (msn 35086) began its… Read More »
AirAsia mulls US IPO, inflates digital business
AirAsia Group is considering raising at least USD300 million by listing its digital business wing via a special-purpose acquisition company… Read More »
De Havilland turns to Delhi court to enforce SpiceJet award
De Havilland Aircraft of Canada (DHC, Toronto Downsview) has asked the Delhi High Court to force SpiceJet (SG, Delhi Int’l)… Read More »
Romania’s Blue Air eyes London, Bucharest market listings
Oana Petrescu, chief executive of Blue Air (Romania) (0B, Bucharest Otopeni), has confirmed plans revealed this week to list on… Read More »