Finnair ups savings target to €170mn on €149mn 1Q21 loss
As it posted another steep quarterly operating loss, EUR149.1 million euros (USD180.1 million) for the first quarter of 2021, Finnair… Read More »
Utah’s Breeze Airways boosts A220 order book – report
Breeze Airways (MXY, Salt Lake City) has reportedly ordered twenty incremental A220-300s increasing its total order for the type to… Read More »
Egypt’s Air Cairo takes delivery of maiden A320neo
Air Cairo (SM, Cairo Int’l) took delivery of its first A320-200N on April 26, 2021, the first of three it… Read More »
American Airlines joins Summer 2021 leisure wave
American Airlines (AA, Dallas/Fort Worth) has followed its rivals in announcing a panoply of new domestic leisure routes to cater… Read More »
Alitalia and successor ITA face “tragic” situation – CEO
Alitalia (AZ, Rome Fiumicino) faces a “tragic” situation as it cannot pay salaries to its employees for April until emergency… Read More »
Kyrgyzstan’s Air Manas takes delivery of first A220
Air Manas (MBB, Bishkek) took delivery of its first A220-300 on April 26, 2021, with plans to add another later… Read More »
Wizz Air eyes India, Africa expansion after pandemic
Wizz Air Holdings is considering an expansion into India and Africa as pandemic-related travel restrictions continue in Europe, its chief… Read More »
Link PNG renews plans to acquire stake in PNG Air
Link PNG (Port Moresby) has renewed plans to acquire a minority shareholding in fellow Papuan domestic carrier PNG Air (CG,… Read More »
Russia’s Skol Aviakompania faces bankruptcy lawsuits
Skol Aviakompania (CDV, Krasnoyarsk Cheremshanka) continues to owe billions of rubles to GTLK – State Transport Leasing through a number… Read More »
India’s SpiceJet targets five more B737 freighters
SpiceJet (SG, Delhi Int’l) is planning to expand its dedicated freighter fleet with a further five B737 freighters, the chief… Read More »
Utah’s SkyWest Airlines secures further $250mn payroll boost
SkyWest Airlines (OO, Salt Lake City) has entered into a Payroll Support Program 3 Agreement with the United States Department… Read More »
Kenya Airways, Congo Airways ink strategic partnership
Kenya Airways (KQ, Nairobi Jomo Kenyatta) and Congo Airways (8Z, Kinshasa N’Djili) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for… Read More »
Hassan gov’t pledges to rescue Air Tanzania
Tanzania’s new president, Samia Suluhu Hassan, has pledged to rescue struggling state-owned Air Tanzania (TC, Dar es Salaam), which is… Read More »
TAP secures EC nod for €462mn in additional state aid
The European Commission has green-lighted another EUR462 million euros (USD556.6 million) in Portuguese state support for TAP Air Portugal (TP,… Read More »
JAL targets Spring Japan takeover
JAL – Japan Airlines (JL, Tokyo Haneda) has confirmed plans to take control of Spring (IJ, Tokyo Narita) later this… Read More »
Blue Islands, Aurigny enhance cooperation
Blue Islands (SI, Jersey) will, from July 1, cease groundhandling operations in Guernsey, which have been dormant for 12 months,… Read More »
United Airlines to reactivate PW4000-powered B777s
United Airlines (UA, Chicago O’Hare) does not plan to follow JAL – Japan Airlines and ANA – All Nippon Airways… Read More »
Latvia’s airBaltic to build Riga cargo hub
airBaltic (BT, Riga) will build what it called the largest dedicated air cargo handling facility in the Baltics, having signed… Read More »
Cathay Pacific to close Canada pilot base, mulls others
As part of a review of its overseas flight crew operations, Cathay Pacific (CX, Hong Kong Int’l) has decided to… Read More »
Etihad to retire B777-300ER fleet
Etihad Airways (EY, Abu Dhabi Int’l) will retire its entire fleet of B777-300(ER)s by year-end as part of a five-year… Read More »
Irish court officially approves Norwegian’s survival plan
Justice Michael Quinn at Ireland’s High Court has approved the rescue plan for Norwegian (DY, Oslo Gardermoen) and several of… Read More »
Nigeria’s Green Africa Airways adds first aircraft, an ATR72
Green Africa Airways (Q9, Lagos) took delivery of its first aircraft on Friday, April 23, as it pushes to complete… Read More »