Lauda Europe to open Zadar, Croatia base from 2Q21
Lauda Europe (LW, Malta Int’l) is to open a base at Zadar, Croatia, from March 30, 2021, to serve destinations in Germany, Vienna,… Read More »
Aer Lingus takes €150mn loan from Irish sovereign fund
Aer Lingus (EI, Dublin Int’l) has extracted a EUR150 million euro (USD180 million) three-year loan from the Ireland Strategic Investment… Read More »
Envoy Air to expand MRO base at Springfield, MO
Envoy Air (MQ, Dallas/Fort Worth) – a wholly-owned subsidiary of American Airlines Group – has announced plans to expand its… Read More »
Allegiant Air to open Des Moines base in early 3Q21
Allegiant Air (G4, Las Vegas McCarran) has announced it will open its base at Des Moines, Iowa, on July 1,… Read More »
Indonesia’s Lion Air restructures some lease deals – report
Lion Air Group is understood to have reached agreement with a number of its lessors to restructure their lease agreements… Read More »
India’s Alliance Air to add two Do228s
Alliance Air (India) (9I, Mumbai Int’l) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding covering two Do228s with Hindustan Aeronautics (Bangalore HAL),… Read More »
SriLankan Airlines restructures leases, secures gov’t funds
SriLankan Airlines (UL, Colombo Int’l) has renegotiated several aircraft leases saving the airline USD150 million over five years as part… Read More »
Lessors object to Norwegian’s bid to wriggle free of deals
Lessors have told the High Court of Ireland, currently overseeing the examinership process currently underway to protect Norwegian (DY, Oslo… Read More »
Air Canada rouge suspends flight operations
Air Canada rouge (RV, Toronto Pearson) paused its operations from February 8 until further notice and temporarily laid off 80… Read More »
Lufthansa refinances all 2021 dues using €1.6bn bond
Lufthansa (LH, Frankfurt Int’l) has raised EUR1.6 billion euros (USD1.92 billion) by issuing a bond on February 4, funds it… Read More »
Utah’s Breeze Airways adds first E190
Breeze Airways (MXY, Salt Lake City) has taken delivery of its first E190, one of fifteen to be dry-leased from… Read More »
Boeing targets 2021 for B737-7 deliveries, 2023 for the -10
Boeing (BOE, Chicago O’Hare) is hoping to complete the certification of its smallest B737 MAX Family variant, the B737-7, and… Read More »
Australia’s Qantas, Alliance Airlines ink capacity deal
A new capacity deal between Qantas (QF, Sydney Kingsford Smith) and Alliance Airlines (QQ, Brisbane Int’l) will see the replacement… Read More »
UPS Airlines takes redelivery of first upgraded A300(F)
UPS Airlines (5X, Louisville Int’l) has taken redelivery of the first of fifty-two A300-600Fs featuring upgraded avionics, extending the freighters’… Read More »
Fly Angola resumes flights after completing certification
Privately-owned Fly Angola (FLA, Luanda) has used the COVID-19 downturn to overhaul its aircraft and secure its own Air Operator’s… Read More »
Ireland’s Stobart Air to be sold this month – Esken
Esken Limited, known as Stobart Group until it formally changed its name on February 3, remains committed to offloading its… Read More »
Bahamasair to reduce staff through early retirement
Bahamasair (UP, Nassau Int’l) is to reintroduce an early retirement programme as the flag carrier looks to cut costs further… Read More »
Former SA Express executives under investigation
Former executives and directors of South African Express (EXY, Johannesburg O.R. Tambo) will be subpoenaed to appear before a High… Read More »
Air Belgium to operate two A330 freighters for CMA CGM
Air Belgium (KF, Brussels Charleroi) will operate two of its four incoming A330-200(F)s under a CMI agreement with French shipping… Read More »
Banks insist on new El Al cash injection before giving loan
With the market conditions for passenger aviation only worsening, in particular with Israel’s prolonged lockdown, banks are now demanding that… Read More »
Hong Kong Airlines hit with penalty over wage subsidy
Hong Kong Airlines (HX, Hong Kong Int’l) has been hit with a “penalty” for tapping government wage subsidies but failing… Read More »
Southwest Airlines to restart B737 MAX ops in late 1Q21
Southwest Airlines (WN, Dallas Love Field) has announced that it will resume scheduled B737-8 operations on March 11, 2021, following… Read More »
Korean court launches Eastar Jet rehabilitation process
Seoul Bankruptcy Court initiated on February 4 corporate rehabilitation proceedings at Eastar Jet (ESR, Seoul Gimpo), three weeks after granting… Read More »
HK’s Greater Bay Airlines mulls cargo ops as launch option
Greater Bay Airlines (Hong Kong Int’l) is pondering launching as a cargo-only specialist if COVID-related border restrictions continue through summer… Read More »
Belarus’s Belavia to retire B737 Classics by YE21
The new General Director of Belavia (B2, Minsk National), Igor Nikolaevich Cherginets, has pledged to retire all of its remaining… Read More »
Canada’s Sunwing secures C$375mn loan to save jobs
Thousands of jobs may have been saved at Sunwing Vacations Inc. and its low-cost subsidiary Sunwing Airlines (WG, Toronto Pearson)… Read More »