Saudia Cargo, Alibaba ink air bridge pact
Saudia Cargo, a division of Saudia (SV, Jeddah), is to operate an air bridge between Asia and Europe via Saudi… Read More »
Kenya’s Astral Aviation opens Sharjah cargo base
Astral Aviation (8V, Nairobi Jomo Kenyatta) has established its first Middle Eastern base at Sharjah, in the United Arab Emirates,… Read More »
Debt restructuring thins Khazanah’s Malaysia Airlines stake
Khazanah Nasional, Malaysia’s sovereign wealth fund, has said that its equity in Malaysia Airlines (MH, Kuala Lumpur Int’l) had been… Read More »
Gov’t to divest Air India groundhandler – report
India’s government is reportedly readying the sale of a profitable groundhandling unit belonging to Air India (AI, Mumbai Int’l) amid… Read More »
Lufthansa sees no future for A380s but will add B787-9s
Lufthansa (LH, Frankfurt Int’l) is unlikely to ever reactivate its fourteen mothballed A380-800s and will instead boost its medium-size widebody… Read More »
Saudi Arabia clears B737 MAX to resume operations
Saudi Arabia became the second country in the Gulf region to permit B737 MAX operations after the General Authority of… Read More »
Jet Airways denied old slots, new owner eyes Uzbek start-up
A revived Jet Airways (JAI, Mumbai Int’l) will not have recourse to airport slots it had held before its April… Read More »
New Caledonian CAA briefly attaches Air Vanuatu B737
Air Vanuatu (NF, Port Vila) has reached an agreement with the New Caledonian civil aviation authority (Direction de l’Aviation Civile… Read More »
Hungary’s Wizz Air to open Palermo base in 2Q21
Wizz Air (W6, Budapest) has announced the opening on June 1 of a new base in Palermo, Sicily, where it… Read More »
Delta Air Lines to cut more than half its focus cities
Delta Air Lines (DL, Atlanta Hartsfield Jackson) will reduce the number of its focus cities from five to just two,… Read More »
Bulgaria’s GullivAir gets the go-ahead for US plans
Bulgarian start-up GullivAir (G2, Sofia) has been awarded a Foreign Air Carrier Permit and Exemption Authority for a two-year period… Read More »
Vietnam Airlines to invest $433mn in Long Thanh airport
Cash-strapped Vietnam Airlines (VN, Hanoi) proposes to inject nearly VND10 trillion dong (USD433 million) in infrastructure development at Long Thanh… Read More »
India’s GoAir takes $110mn bank credit line – report
GoAir (G8, Mumbai Int’l) has received an INR8 billion rupee (USD110 million) credit line from banks, designed to help it… Read More »
South Sudan Supreme Airlines grounded after fatal crash
South Sudan President Salva Kiir Mayardit has ordered the grounding of South Sudan Supreme Airlines (Juba) after the fatal crash… Read More »
US’ Via Airlines gets tentative nod of approval
The US Department of Transportation has found Via Airlines Inc. t/a Sterling Airways (Jacksonville Craig, FL) to be “fit, willing,… Read More »
Icelandair to resume B737 MAX ops in late 1Q21
Icelandair (FI, Reykjavik Keflavik) has announced it will resume B737-8 operations on March 8, 2021, becoming the third European airline… Read More »
Korean Air sends B747-8 for VIP conversion
Korean Air (KE, Seoul Incheon) has ferried one of its ten B747-8s to Hamburg Helmut Schmidt for conversion into a… Read More »
State aid plan for Air Malta sent back to drawing board
The Maltese government has sent its state aid plan for Air Malta (KM, Malta Int’l) back to the drawing board… Read More »
Thailand’s Nok Air eyes acquisitions, fleet growth
Although it first has to finalise negotiations with its creditors, Nok Air (DD, Bangkok Don Mueang) is evaluating options to… Read More »
Uganda Airlines readies for intercontinental debut
Uganda Airlines (UR, Entebbe/Kampala) has secured landing slots at London Heathrow and Dubai Int’l and plans to start intercontinental flights… Read More »
Pakistan to add three more domestic carriers
Pakistan may soon have three more domestic airlines with start-ups Q-Airlines, Fly Jinnah, and Jet Green Airlines having applied for… Read More »
LATAM Airlines slates up to eight B767s for P2F conversion
LATAM Airlines Group has announced it will convert four of its B767-300(ER)s into dedicated freighters with options for a further… Read More »
easyJet founder rules out funding a bail-out
easyJet (U2, London Luton) founder Stelios Haji-Ioannou has ruled out investing more money in the budget airline amid speculation that… Read More »
Brazil’s competition watchdog gives Delta-LATAM JV final nod
Brazil’s competition watchdog (Conselho Administrativo de Defesa Econômica – CADE) has given its final approval of a joint venture between… Read More »
Arizona’s Mesa Air to set up joint European ACMI carrier
Arizona’s Mesa Air Group has entered into a conditional agreement with London-based consultancy Gramercy Associates, Ltd., over the establishment of… Read More »
Sky Regional to close as Air Canada moves E175s to Jazz Air
Air Canada (AC, Montréal Trudeau) has signed a revised Capacity Purchase Agreement (CPA) with Chorus Aviation and will move all… Read More »