Alaska Airlines firms order for 23+15 B737 MAX 9s
Alaska Airlines (AS, Seattle Tacoma Int’l) has announced in a stock market filing that it firmed an order for twenty-three… Read More »
ASL Airlines UK certifies, launches domestic operations
ASL Airlines UK (ABV, East Midlands) became the first new fixed-wing airline to receive an Air Operator’s Certificate (AOC) in… Read More »
Sri Lanka’s Cinnamon Air resumes charter operations
Cinnamon Air (C7, Colombo Int’l) resumes domestic charter flights on April 1 in accordance with safety guidelines of the Civil… Read More »
Hong Kong Air Cargo, Cainiao launch joint logistics hub
Hong Kong Air Cargo (RH, Hong Kong Int’l) and Cainiao Smart Logistics Network, an affiliate of China’s Alibaba Group, have… Read More »
Lauda Europe to launch Zagreb base in mid-3Q21
Ryanair Holdings has announced it will open a new base at Zagreb airport, starting on September 1, 2021, and operated… Read More »
Norway’s Norse Atlantic Airways to lease nine AerCap B787s
Low-cost long-haul start-up Norse Atlantic Airways has signed up to lease six B787-9s and three B787-8s from Dublin-based lessor AerCap,… Read More »
Spain’s Volotea mulls A220s but not in near-term
Volotea (V7, Asturias) is contemplating the A220 as a potential future aircraft type but plans no changes in the next… Read More »
Paris, Brussels set to announce new Air France bailout
Paris and the European Commission have agreed on the conditions and the amount of a second tranche of financial aid… Read More »
Brussels backs €25mn aid to Alitalia, blocks ITA over slots
Even as the European Commission found on March 26 that EUR24.7 million euros (USD29.1 million) in Italian support in favour… Read More »
JetBlue scoops Heathrow slots for 3Q21
JetBlue Airways (B6, New York JFK) has secured slots for services to London Heathrow from Boston and New York JFK… Read More »
Kenya suspends domestic flights to curb spread of COVID-19
Kenyan airlines, including Kenya Airways (KQ, Nairobi Jomo Kenyatta), its low-cost subsidiary Jambojet (JM, Nairobi Jomo Kenyatta), and Skyward Express… Read More »
Air Namibia liquidated, gov’t negotiates debt with lessors
The Namibian government has confirmed it is negotiating settlement terms of NAD2.3 billion Namibian dollars (USD154 million) owed to Castlelake… Read More »
Spain’s Wamos Air ends B747 operations
Wamos Air (EB, Madrid Barajas) has retired its last B747-400, EC-KXN (msn 25703), joining the ranks of airlines phasing out… Read More »
Korean Air, Asiana Airlines to fully merge by YE24
Korean Air (KE, Seoul Incheon) and Asiana Airlines (OZ, Seoul Incheon) aim to fully unite later than previously planned, in… Read More »
Kenya Airways nationalisation plan encounters more hurdles
Kenya’s National Assembly Transport Committee has rejected the proposed composition of a powerful body, to be headed by President Uhuru… Read More »
Boutique Air clinches Jackson, TN EAS contract
Boutique Air (4B, San Francisco, CA) has clinched a two-year Essential Air Service (EAS) contract at Jackson, TN despite objections… Read More »
Norwegian restructuring approved in Dublin, moves to Norway
Justice Michael Quinn at Ireland’s High Court has confirmed that he will approve the rescue plan for Norwegian (DY, Oslo… Read More »
Kalitta Charters II, IBC, IFL object to TUM Aerocarga FACP
Kalitta Charters II, IBC Airways, and IFL Group have jointly objected to the granting of a Foreign Air Carrier Permit… Read More »
Thailand’s K-Mile Air takes first B737-800(BCF)
K-Mile Asia (8K, Bangkok Suvarnabhumi) took delivery of its first B737-800(BCF) on March 24, 2021, ch-aviation research has revealed. EI-DLR… Read More »
Southwest chooses B737 MAX 7 as -700 replacement
Following an intense scrutinisation process in which it also assessed the A220-300 from Airbus (AIB, Toulouse Blagnac), Southwest Airlines (WN,… Read More »
Lufthansa Consulting wins ToMontenegro advisory tender
ToMontenegro (Podgorica) has selected Lufthansa Consulting to advise it during its setting-up and launch phases. The new Montenegrin flag carrier… Read More »
UK’s flyPOP eyes 2H21 launch
flyPOP (London Stansted) is planning to launch low-cost long-haul services between the United Kingdom and India later this year but… Read More »
Haji-Ioannou further dilutes stake in easyJet
easyJet (U2, London Luton) founder Stelios Haji-Ioannou has dumped another 1% stake in the airline, worth about GBP43 million pounds… Read More »
India’s GoAir to initiate $345mn IPO in early 2Q21 – report
GoAir (G8, Mumbai Int’l) plans to come out with a INR25 billion rupee (USD345 million) Initial Public Offering (IPO) early… Read More »
Czechia’s Air Bohemia certified for single-engine ops
Air Bohemia (BOH, Mnichovo Hradiste) will begin commercial operations with three PC-12/47Es in early April 2021 after it updated its… Read More »
Malawi Airlines suspends flight operations
Malawi Airlines (3W, Lilongwe) says it has suspended all flights for the period March 26 to 31 citing unspecified operational… Read More »