Canada’s Chrono Jet adds first B737NG
Chrono Jet (MBK, Québec) took delivery of its first B737-800 in the form of C-FMBO (msn 30631), although the 19.3-year-old… Read More »
Kuwait’s Jazeera Airways eyes capital raise
Kuwait’s Jazeera Airways (J9, Kuwait) is to raise its capital by 10% from KWD20 million Kuwaiti dinars (USD66 million) to… Read More »
Nigeria’s AMCON moots new airline holding company
The Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON) is awaiting regulatory approval to launch a new holding company for aviation assets… Read More »
Viet Nam’s Bamboo Airways eyes US IPO, boosts capital
Bamboo Airways (QH, Hanoi) is considering an initial public offering (IPO) in the United States in the third quarter of… Read More »
Saudi Arabia to reopen to int’l pax traffic in mid-2Q21
Saudia (SV, Jeddah) is reportedly preparing for a full-capacity operation ahead of Saudi Arabia lifting its international travel ban on… Read More »
Avianca Holdings to seek $1.8bn in post-Chapter 11 financing
Avianca Holdings, the Panama-based parent of Avianca Airlines, plans to raise USD1.8 billion either in debt or fresh equity as… Read More »
Italy’s Poste Air Cargo debuts scheduled int’l ops
Poste Air Cargo (M4, Rome Fiumicino) launched its first scheduled international cargo route, from Rome Fiumicino to Tel Aviv Ben… Read More »
American Airlines rejigs B737 MAX, B787 orders
American Airlines (AA, Dallas/Fort Worth) announced in a quarterly investor update that it has reached agreements with Boeing concerning the… Read More »
Norwegian ups target for capital raise to $716mn
Norwegian (DY, Oslo Gardermoen) updated the market on its forthcoming capital raise on April 14 with the news that it… Read More »
Ryanair to appeal EU court rulings on Finnair, SAS state aid
Ryanair (FR, Dublin Int’l) has said it will appeal a ruling by the General Court of the European Court of… Read More »
Qantas, BA eye A380 return, China Southern cautious
British Airways (BA, London Heathrow) and Qantas (QF, Sydney Kingsford Smith) have said they expect their respective A380-800s to return… Read More »
Malta’s Air CM Global adds first Dash 8-100
Air CM Global (RJR, Malta Int’l) has added its first Dash 8-100 in the form of 9H-CTG (msn 222), its… Read More »
AirAsia to invest heavily in digital business
AirAsia Group plans to raise USD300 million to expand its digital business arm, AirAsia Digital, as it intensifies the diversification… Read More »
Bangladesh closes airspace in new COVID-19 lockdown
All passenger flights to, from, and within Bangladesh remain suspended until April 20, 2021, as the country entered another strict… Read More »
Key Lime Air takes EAS contract at Pierre and Watertown, SD
Key Lime Air, through its Denver Air Connection (KG, Denver Centennial) brand, has snatched a two-year contract away from SkyWest… Read More »
Croatia Airlines demands equal treatment with Ryanair
Croatia Airlines (OU, Zagreb) has issued an open letter to the operator of Zagreb airport, demanding fee reductions and incentives… Read More »
Shortlisted entities asked to make final Air India bids
India’s government has invited shortlisted entities to submit financial bids to acquire Air India (AI, Mumbai Int’l), local media reported,… Read More »
Italy’s Sky Alps secures first Q400s on lease
Sky Alps (Bolzano) has announced it will lease its first two DHC-8-Q400s from Chorus Aviation Capital with deliveries expected in… Read More »
Lessor seizes Surinam Airways B737 in Miami over debts
A B737-700 belonging to Surinam Airways (PY, Paramaribo Int’l) has been seized at Miami Int’l, shortly before a scheduled return… Read More »
Thyme Opco completes flybe. aquisition, eyes summer return
Thyme Opco, the Cyrus Capital-controlled shell company that announced last October its intention to acquire flybe. (BE, Exeter), revealed on… Read More »
Eurowings to add A320neo in 2022 to cope with pent-up demand
Eurowings (EW, Düsseldorf Int’l) is planning to increase its number of active aircraft from less than 30 at present to… Read More »
Viet Nam’s Bamboo Airways reveals partnership deal with bank
Bamboo Airways (QH, Hanoi) and Ho Chi Minh City-based Sacombank have announced a “comprehensive cooperation agreement” involving a new strategic… Read More »
Latvia’s SmartLynx Airlines enters German charter market
SmartLynx Airlines (6Y, Riga) has announced it will enter the German and Swiss leisure markets in summer 2021, operating full… Read More »
Norway’s Norse Atlantic Airways raises $165mn in IPO
Norse Atlantic Airways debuted on the low-threshold Euronext Growth exchange in Oslo on April 12, raising around NOK1.4 billion kroner… Read More »
ACCC okays Virgin Australia/Alliance Airlines tie-up
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has approved, with no restrictions, a proposed partnership between Virgin Australia (VA, Brisbane… Read More »
Auditor-General warns of Air Tanzania’s debt risks
Air Tanzania (TC, Dar es Salaam) is at risk of having its aircraft impounded abroad because of debts owed by… Read More »