Lufthansa raises another €1bn in corporate bond sale
Lufthansa (LH, Frankfurt Int’l) has boosted its liquidity by raising a further EUR1 billion euros (USD1.19 billion) in a corporate… Read More »
Korea’s Jeju Air proposes 5:1 capital cut
Jeju Air (7C, Jeju) has announced plans to cut the par value of its common stock, to KRW1,000 won (USD0.87)… Read More »
Aer Lingus (UK) adds first A330-300
Aer Lingus (United Kingdom) (Belfast City) added its first A330-300 transferred from parent company Aer Lingus (EI, Dublin Int’l) on… Read More »
UK’s TUI Airways to close Edinburgh base after Summer 2021
TUI Airways (BY, London Luton) has confirmed to local news website Edinburgh Live that it will close its base at… Read More »
Chathams Island, New Zealand upgrades for jet operations
The New Zealand government has approved funding for the lengthening and strengthening of the runway at Chatham Island Tuuta Airport… Read More »
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries mulls reviving CRJ line
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) is reportedly considering reactivating the CRJ assembly line at Montréal Mirabel airport, eyeing the CRJ550 variant… Read More »
Canada’s Porter Airlines revises financial plans
Canada’s Porter Airlines (PD, Toronto City Centre) is officially returning to the skies on September 8, 2021, nearly 18 months… Read More »
British Airways settles with victims of cyber hack
British Airways (BA, London Heathrow) has paid an undisclosed sum to settle a claim brought by passengers and staff who… Read More »
Lufthansa CityLine to add two A321 freighters in 2022
Lufthansa Group will enter the narrowbody dedicated freighter segment with Lufthansa CityLine (CL, Munich) set to add its first two… Read More »
Hong Kong Airlines defers bond interest payouts of $149mn
Hong Kong Airlines (HX, Hong Kong Int’l) has defaulted for the third time on consecutive semi-annual instalments of interest payments… Read More »
France’s HOP! retires last E145
Nearly 18 months after retiring the type from revenue service, HOP! (A5, Paris Orly) formally returned its last E145 on… Read More »
Ryanair to open Agadir, Morocco base in Winter 2021/22
Ryanair (FR, Dublin Int’l) will open a third base in Morocco by stationing two B737-800s in Agadir, from where it… Read More »
Irish court names Stobart Air liquidator, hears staff plea
A hearing at the High Court of Ireland has appointed Deloitte Ireland as liquidator to Stobart Air (RE, Dublin Int’l)… Read More »
St. Eustatius reopens to commercial traffic
The Dutch Caribbean island of Sint Eustatius has opened a new passenger terminal and control tower at Saint Eustatius F.D…. Read More »
Somaliland lifts ban on flydubai
The Somaliland government has lifted its suspension of Emirati low-cost carrier flydubai (FZ, Dubai Int’l) following a bilateral agreement between… Read More »
Port au Prince, Haiti closed after President assassinated
Port au Prince Toussaint Louverture International Airport, Haiti closed to all traffic on Wednesday, July 7, 2021, following the assassination… Read More »
Staff of India’s Jet Airways must back revival or lose perks
As voting got underway for Jet Airways (JAI, Mumbai Int’l) employees to approve the Kalrock-Jalan consortium’s proposal to revive the… Read More »
Canada’s Carson Air under new ownership
Carson Air (CRN, Kelowna) – a Western Canadian provider of fixed-wing air ambulance, cargo, and flights school training services –… Read More »
Transair Hawaii adds first B737-400 freighter
Transair Hawaii (R9, Honolulu) is set to add its first B737-400(SF), having registered B737-400 N251AU (msn 25104) in late April… Read More »
Icelandair to raise its share capital to $274mn
Icelandair Group shareholders are to vote on a proposal to increase the company’s share capital by ISK5.6 billion krona (USD45.1… Read More »
Romania’s Blue Air eyes UK IPO via reverse takeover
Ridgecrest, a cash shell company based in Surrey in the United Kingdom, announced plans on July 6 to engineer a… Read More »
Ireland’s Emerald Airlines eyes Aer Lingus ops in early 4Q21
Aer Lingus Regional services could be back in the air by October with final contracts to be signed soon with… Read More »
India’s SpiceJet confirms it will separate cargo “lifeline”
SpiceJet (SG, Delhi Int’l) plans to “hive-off the cargo business to operate as a separate entity,” in the words of… Read More »
DR Congo’s flyCAA set to resume A320 operations
Five years after it retired all of its A320-200s, the Democratic Republic of Congo’s flyCAA (BU, Kinshasa N’Djili) took delivery… Read More »
EU approves open skies with Armenia, Tunisia, Ukraine
The Council of the European Union, a gathering of the bloc’s ministers, has approved the signing of four open skies… Read More »
American Airlines and Sabre to face-off in new court case
American Airlines (AA, Dallas/Fort Worth) has filed a breach-of-contract lawsuit against Sabre Airline Solutions, seeking a temporary injunction preventing its… Read More »