Utah’s SkyWest Airlines secures further $250mn payroll boost
SkyWest Airlines (OO, Salt Lake City) has entered into a Payroll Support Program 3 Agreement with the United States Department… Read More »
Kenya Airways, Congo Airways ink strategic partnership
Kenya Airways (KQ, Nairobi Jomo Kenyatta) and Congo Airways (8Z, Kinshasa N’Djili) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for… Read More »
Hassan gov’t pledges to rescue Air Tanzania
Tanzania’s new president, Samia Suluhu Hassan, has pledged to rescue struggling state-owned Air Tanzania (TC, Dar es Salaam), which is… Read More »
TAP secures EC nod for €462mn in additional state aid
The European Commission has green-lighted another EUR462 million euros (USD556.6 million) in Portuguese state support for TAP Air Portugal (TP,… Read More »
JAL targets Spring Japan takeover
JAL – Japan Airlines (JL, Tokyo Haneda) has confirmed plans to take control of Spring (IJ, Tokyo Narita) later this… Read More »
Blue Islands, Aurigny enhance cooperation
Blue Islands (SI, Jersey) will, from July 1, cease groundhandling operations in Guernsey, which have been dormant for 12 months,… Read More »
United Airlines to reactivate PW4000-powered B777s
United Airlines (UA, Chicago O’Hare) does not plan to follow JAL – Japan Airlines and ANA – All Nippon Airways… Read More »
Latvia’s airBaltic to build Riga cargo hub
airBaltic (BT, Riga) will build what it called the largest dedicated air cargo handling facility in the Baltics, having signed… Read More »
Cathay Pacific to close Canada pilot base, mulls others
As part of a review of its overseas flight crew operations, Cathay Pacific (CX, Hong Kong Int’l) has decided to… Read More »
Etihad to retire B777-300ER fleet
Etihad Airways (EY, Abu Dhabi Int’l) will retire its entire fleet of B777-300(ER)s by year-end as part of a five-year… Read More »
Irish court officially approves Norwegian’s survival plan
Justice Michael Quinn at Ireland’s High Court has approved the rescue plan for Norwegian (DY, Oslo Gardermoen) and several of… Read More »
Nigeria’s Green Africa Airways adds first aircraft, an ATR72
Green Africa Airways (Q9, Lagos) took delivery of its first aircraft on Friday, April 23, as it pushes to complete… Read More »
Delta bumps A321neo order book, secures payroll support
Delta Air Lines (DL, Atlanta Hartsfield Jackson) has expended its A321-200N order book after it firmed 25 purchase rights while… Read More »
US’s Waltzing Matilda forges ahead with scheduled plans
US charter operator Waltzing Matilda Aviation (New Bedford) is forging ahead with plans to launch scheduled operations under the Connect… Read More »
Bank of America cuts stake in Brazil’s GOL to 3.74%
Bank of America NA and its subsidiaries have disposed of shares in GOL Linhas Aéreas Inteligentes (G3, Sao Paulo Congonhas)… Read More »
India’s IndiGo Airlines to add four A321(P2F)s
IndiGo Airlines (6E, Delhi Int’l) has announced that it will add four A321-200(P2F) converted freighters, with the first delivery scheduled… Read More »
Breeze Airways to use E190/5s for short-haul, A220s for long
Breeze Airways (MXY, Salt Lake City) plans to continue operating a dual-manufacturer fleet in the future with both the E190/E195s… Read More »
Logistics firm to invest $10mn in GlobalX
Global Crossing Airlines Group has announced that it will benefit from a USD10 million financing in the form of an… Read More »
Bangladesh partially relaxes domestic flight ban
Restrictions on domestic commercial services in Bangladesh have been partially lifted for one week until April 28, 2021, according to… Read More »
New lockdown downs Fiji Airways and Fiji Link flights
Fiji Airways (FJ, Nadi) and Fiji Link (FJA, Nadi) have cancelled some domestic services as well international repatriation flights in… Read More »
UK’s Titan Airways retires only A318
Titan Airways (ZT, London Stansted) has retired its only A318-100, having ferried the 11.6-year-old G-EUNB (msn 4039) reportedly for part-out… Read More »
Star Marianas Air, airport regulator mediation fails
Mediation efforts have collapsed for an out-of-court resolution to a long-standing USD2.6 million lease dispute between Star Marianas Air (Tinian)… Read More »
South Africa’s Mango grounded as money runs out
Mango Airlines (JE, Johannesburg O.R. Tambo) is to be mothballed from May 15 until such time as it receives funding… Read More »
FedEx to take over Boeing’s Dreamlifter Operations Centre
Air cargo carrier FedEx Express (FX, Memphis Int’l) is to take over the lease of Boeing’s Dreamlifter Operations Centre at… Read More »
Florida’s GLOBALX provides more details on Jetlines spin-out
Global Crossing Airlines Group has released an update on the spin-out of its wholly-owned subsidiary Canada Jetlines Operations, formerly known… Read More »
Garuda Indonesia drops price-fixing appeal, fined $15mn
The Australian Federal Court has ordered Garuda Indonesia (GA, Jakarta Soekarno-Hatta) to pay a penalty of AUD19 million Australian dollars… Read More »