Qantas sheds hundreds more jobs to cut costs
Qantas Group will retrench several hundred more employees in addition to 8,500 jobs already axed as the airline targets to… Read More »
Singapore Airlines to raise $4.7bn after worst year ever
Singapore Airlines Group has announced that it will raise a further SGD6.2 billion Singaporean dollars (USD4.7 billion) from its shareholders… Read More »
Kazakhstan’s Air Astana to re-register aircraft in Ireland
Air Astana (KC, Nur-Sultan Nazarbayev) is set to re-register all of its Aruba-registered aircraft in Ireland over the remainder of… Read More »
Attestor Capital acquires majority stake in Germany’s Condor
English private equity fund Attestor Capital LLP has acquired a 51% stake in Condor (DE, Frankfurt Int’l). The German leisure… Read More »
US’s JetBlue Airways confirms inc’l debut in mid-3Q21
JetBlue Airways (B6, New York JFK) has outlined the details of its long-awaited transatlantic debut and is now set to… Read More »
Australia’s brad pitches for crowd-funding
Australia may have a new domestic airline called “brad” in 2022 – that is, if its founders can raise at… Read More »
Iceland’s PLAY unveils initial network plans for S21
PLAY (FPY, Reykjavik Keflavik) has unveiled its initial network plans covering a range of destinations in Europe, with the first… Read More »
Bulgaria’s Cargo Air adds first B737-800(SF)
Cargo Air (CGF, Sofia) took delivery of its first B737-800(SF) on May 18, 2021, shortly after the European Union Aviation… Read More »
Pakistan’s AirBlue banned from Peshawar ops due to fake PCRs
The Pakistani Civil Aviation Authority (PkCAA) has banned AirBlue (PA, Karachi Int’l) from flying to Peshawar after, on two occasions,… Read More »
LATAM Airlines orders six more B767-300(ERBCF)s
LATAM Airlines Group has announced that it firmed options for four P2F-converted B767-300(ERBCF)s and ordered a further two units of… Read More »
SAA to restart latest by mid-3Q21 says CEO
South African Airways (SA, Johannesburg O.R. Tambo) will take to the skies again in July or at the latest early… Read More »
Apollo to cut stake in Minnesota’s Sun Country Airlines
Just two months after going public, Sun Country Airlines (SY, Minneapolis/St. Paul) announced in a May 17 statement a proposed… Read More »
Aer Lingus to close Shannon base amid restructuring plan
As feared, Aer Lingus (EI, Dublin Int’l) outlined in a statement on May 18 plans to close its base at… Read More »
Ryanair wins as EU court overturns KLM, TAP state aid
The General Court of the European Union has upheld a Ryanair (FR, Dublin Int’l) challenge to billion of euros in… Read More »
Former Asiana Airlines boss arrested for embezzlement
The former chairman of Kumho Asiana Group, a large South Korean chaebol (conglomerate) whose subsidiary Kumho Industrial is the biggest… Read More »
Lufthansa adds scheduled charters from Malta to Newark
Lufthansa (LH, Frankfurt Int’l) will operate its only scheduled non-German route during the Summer 2021 season, namely a scheduled charter… Read More »
Wizz Air confirms Cardiff, UK base to open in late 2Q21
Wizz Air UK (W9, London Luton) has confirmed it will open its new base at Cardiff on June 17, 2021,… Read More »
Russia’s Aeroflot takes delivery of first A320neo
Aeroflot (SU, Moscow Sheremetyevo) took delivery of its first A320-200N, VP-BPQ (msn 10126), on May 14, 2021, with a further… Read More »
Nigeria’s Ibom Air eyes domestic expansion
Nigeria’s Ibom Air (QI, Uyo) may soon add the newly inaugurated Bayelsa International Airport to its domestic route network after… Read More »
Norwegian’s rescue plan approved as no creditors appeal
Norwegian (DY, Oslo Gardermoen) declared in a statement on May 18 that no creditors had filed appeals against its court-ordered… Read More »
Israeli carriers keep skies open as foreign airlines cancel
Israeli carriers El Al Israel Airlines, Israir, and Arkia Israeli Airlines have been conducting rescue flights for Israelis stranded abroad,… Read More »
S.African corruption watchdog flags Mango governance issues
An independent corruption watchdog is investigating possible reckless trading by the executives and boards of Mango Airlines (JE, Johannesburg O.R…. Read More »
Philippine Airlines seeks to return A350s, B777s to lessors
As PAL Holdings considers seeking court protection from creditors while undertaking “comprehensive” debt restructuring, its subsidiary Philippine Airlines (PR, Manila… Read More »
Ryanair “quite upset” with ongoing B737 MAX delays
Ryanair Holdings is “quite upset” with Boeing and does not “necessarily believe” the manufacturer’s assertion that its B737-8-200 will start… Read More »
Defunct Fly Africa Zimbabwe in court again over debt
Defunct Fly Africa Zimbabwe (FZW, Harare Int’l) and its directors are being sued again in the Harare High Court, this… Read More »
Kenya’s Astral Aviation denies Somalian ban
Kenya’s Astral Aviation (8V, Nairobi Jomo Kenyatta) has denied media reports that it has been banned from flying to Somalia… Read More »