Viet Nam’s Bamboo Airways eyes US ops in late 3Q21
Bamboo Airways (QH, Hanoi) plans to join state-owned rival Vietnam Airlines (VN, Hanoi) and launch direct scheduled services from Viet… Read More »
Wizz Air ramps up Bari, Italy base
Wizz Air (W6, Budapest) will double its capacity by adding a second A321-200NX at its Bari base to open eight… Read More »
Hong Kong Airlines hit with lawsuits over training centre
Hong Kong-based Hip Hing Construction Company Limited has slapped cash-strapped Hong Kong Airlines (HX, Hong Kong Int’l) with its second… Read More »
LATAM cancels orders for four B787-9s, one B777-200F
LATAM Airlines Group has entered into an agreement with Boeing to cancel outstanding orders for four B787-9s and one B777-200F,… Read More »
Texas’s Avelo Airlines to open New Haven, CT base in 3Q21
Texan start-up Avelo Airlines (XP, Burbank) has announced its first US East Coast base at New Haven, Connecticut with operations… Read More »
Japan Airlines to replace B777s with A350s by late 1Q23
JAL – Japan Airlines (JL, Tokyo Haneda) will retire all of its B777 widebodies by March 2023, replacing them with… Read More »
Israeli gov’t approves aid scheme for El Al, Israir
Israel’s government approved a bailout package for El Al Israel Airlines (LY, Tel Aviv Ben Gurion) and Israir (6H, Tel… Read More »
Air Canada warms to A321neo(LR)s
Air Canada (AC, Montréal Trudeau) sees potential for the A321-200NX(LR) to play a role in its flexible response approach to… Read More »
Canadian North to retire B737-200(C)s
Canadian North (5T, Yellowknife) is set to retire its two remaining B737-200(C)s by early 2022 and replace them with other… Read More »
Ryanair expands Swedish footprint, reopens Billund base
Ryanair (FR, Dublin Int’l) will open two bases in Scandinavia from October 2021, basing two aircraft each at Billund in… Read More »
New Zealand’s Pasifika Air launch plans still on hold
The launch of Pasifika Air (Christchurch) is still on hold despite the opening of a two-way quarantine-free travel bubble between… Read More »
Taiwan’s Starlux postpones US plans due to COVID-19
Starlux Airlines (JX, Taipei Taoyuan) may postpone plans for its Los Angeles Int’l service until 2023 due to the COVID-19… Read More »
Amazon to open Tulsa, OK cargo hub
Amazon.com is to build a 270,000 square foot (around 26,000 sqm) sortation facility adjacent to Tulsa Int’l, a city-owned civil-military… Read More »
Nigeria’s new flag carrier to be private-sector financed
Nigeria’s envisaged new national carrier, Nigeria Air (Lagos), is to be private-sector driven and financed, with the government proposing to… Read More »
US DOJ joins corruption probe into Garuda’s CRJ1000 deal
The United States Department of Justice has requested documents from Bombardier Aerospace concerning the sale of eighteen CRJ1000s to Garuda… Read More »
Qatari Minister of Finance arrested on graft charges
Ali Shareef Al Emadi, Qatar’s Minister of Finance and simultaneously the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Qatar Airways… Read More »
Air Seychelles draws $20mn line in sand for Etihad
Air Seychelles (HM, Mahé) can pay no more than USD20 million of the USD71.5 million it still owes to Etihad… Read More »
Philippine Airlines to seek Chapter 11 protection from creditors – report
Reeling from a series of severe lockdowns and travel restrictions, PAL Holdings has told lessors that it may file for… Read More »
Finnair announces credit notes for cash, mulls new issue
Finnair (AY, Helsinki Vantaa) is considering the issuance of new euro-denominated credit notes, to take place in the near future… Read More »
Canada’s Voyageur Airways wins cargo contract with Purolator
Voyageur Airways (VAL, North Bay) has won a three-year cargo contract with Canadian logistics integrator Purolator Courier, covering two DHC-8-100(PF)… Read More »
South Africa’s NAC takes 25% of Florida’s Discovery Jets
NAC Charter (NTN, Lanseria) has entered the US charter market by acquiring a 25% stake in Discovery Jets, a Fort… Read More »
Norwegian closes three bases in Spain, announces layoffs
Norwegian (DY, Oslo Gardermoen) has told staff in Spain that it intends to initiate a collective dismissal procedure in the… Read More »
Cathay Pacific again mulls US dollar bond issue
Cathay Pacific (CX, Hong Kong Int’l) According to sources and a preliminary term sheet cited by Reuters, it is considering… Read More »
Canada’s Cargojet eyes US investment
Cargojet Airways (W8, Hamilton, ON) is looking to invest in a startup US cargo airline to take advantage of the… Read More »
Swiss scythes fleet, jobs; blames “structural market change”
Swiss (LX, Zurich) has announced sweeping restructuring plans in response to what it called “structural changes in its markets”, cutting… Read More »
FlySAX resubmits offer for bankrupt South African Express
FlySAX has submitted a revised offer to acquire South African Express (EXY, Johannesburg O.R. Tambo), this time seeking to raise… Read More »