Lufthansa orders five B787-9s, five A350-900s
Lufthansa (LH, Frankfurt Int’l) has announced it has ordered five whitetail B787-9s with deliveries scheduled to begin in 2021, as… Read More »
Burundi axes transport minister amid graft claims
Burundi’s Minister of Commerce, Transport, Industry, and Tourism, Immaculee Ndabaneze, has been sacked for “compromising the economy and tarnishing the… Read More »
Brazil’s GOL announces $94.5mn capital increase
GOL Linhas Aéreas Inteligentes (G3, Sao Paulo Congonhas) will initiate a capital increase of up to BRL512 million reais (USD94.5… Read More »
US court approves Aeroméxico’s reduced B737 MAX order
Judge Shelley C. Chapman, of the US Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York, has approved Aeroméxico’s plan… Read More »
DOT affirms Cape Air EAS selection at Bar Harbor, Maine
The US Department of Transportation (DOT) has affirmed the selection of Cape Air (9K, Hyannis) to provide state-subsidised essential air… Read More »
Singapore Airlines raises $1.5bn through sale/lease-backs
Singapore Airlines (SQ, Singapore Changi) has announced the conclusion of sale/lease-back transactions with four lessors, covering seven A350-900s and four… Read More »
Nigeria’s Ibom Air, Dana Air eye interline partnership
In a first for the Nigerian domestic market, Ibom Air (QI, Uyo) and Dana Air (9J, Lagos) have reached an… Read More »
Bahrain’s DHL International Aviation to grow B767 fleet
DHL International Aviation Middle East (ES, Bahrain Int’l) will take deliveries of a further six P2F-converted B767-300(ER) freighters by the… Read More »
US’s Waltzing Matilda reveals initial network plans
Waltzing Matilda Aviation (New Bedford) has announced the city pairs it plans to serve from the US North-East from October… Read More »
Indonesia’s Super Air Jet eyes LCC model with A320s
Super Air Jet is an Indonesian start-up planning to launch in “the near future” with a fleet of 180-seat A320-200s… Read More »
China’s Juneyao Air targets HNA Group assets – report
Juneyao Air (HO, Shanghai Hongqiao) is establishing an investment company together with strategic investors as a means of investing in… Read More »
India’s SpiceJet defers up to 50% of April wages
SpiceJet (SG, Delhi Int’l) has deferred payment of between 10% and 50% of its employees’ salaries for April, blaming it… Read More »
Kenyan carriers resume scheduled domestic flights
Kenyan airlines have resumed domestic flights following the lifting of COVID-19 travel restrictions to/from the capital Nairobi. From May 2,… Read More »
Kampala sends Uganda Airlines’ execs on leave
Members of the Uganda Airlines (UR, Entebbe/Kampala) management team, including Chief Executive Officer Cornwell Muleya, have been placed “on leave”… Read More »
Canada’s Jazz Air adds first E175
Jazz Air (QK, Halifax) has added the first seven of twenty-five E175s transferred from Sky Regional Airlines (KV, Montréal Trudeau)… Read More »
JetBlue Airways takes first A321neo(LR)
JetBlue Airways (B6, New York JFK) took delivery of the first of its A321-200NX(LR) on April 29, 2021, after N4022J… Read More »
India restricts airlines to 80% capacity until end mid-2Q21
India’s domestic airlines may continue to operate 80% of their 2020 summer domestic schedules until May 31, 2021, according to… Read More »
Botswana’s Mack Air debuts scheduled int’l pax ops
Botswana’s first private airline, Mack Air (MKB, Maun), is putting its regional scheduled plans into action with the launch on… Read More »
Wisconsin’s Midwest Express sees renewed investor interest
Midwest Express Airlines (Milwaukee General Mitchell) is moving forward with its planned relaunch after COVID-19 had forced it to put… Read More »
US greenlights flights by Taiwan’s Starlux Airlines
Plans by Taiwan’s Starlux Airlines (JX, Taipei Taoyuan) for long-haul flights to Los Angeles Int’l have been given the thumbs… Read More »
Mexico’s VivaAerobus obtains $150mn loan from US investor
VivaAerobus (VB, Monterrey General Mariano Escobedo) has announced that “as part of its growth and expansion plans” it has signed… Read More »
A350s back on SriLankan Airlines’ radar post-COVID
SriLankan Airlines (UL, Colombo Int’l) is planning to take advantage of depressed lease rates to renew its ageing widebody fleet… Read More »