Viet Nam’s Bamboo Airways targets early 3Q21 for IPO
Bamboo Airways (QH, Hanoi) intends to debut on either the Ho Chi Minh City Stock Exchange or the Hanoi Stock… Read More »
JetBlue considers moving HQ to Florida
JetBlue Airways (B6, New York JFK) is considering relocating its corporate headquarters from New York to Florida, the New York… Read More »
PIA to phase out all ATRs by mid-3Q21
PIA – Pakistan International Airlines (PK, Islamabad Quaid-e-Azam Int’l) told the Sindh High Court that it would ground all of… Read More »
SriLankan Airlines sues Airbus for $1bn
SriLankan Airlines (UL, Colombo Int’l) has filed a lawsuit against Airbus for alleged corruption during the procurement of A350-900s and… Read More »
Aeroflot lawyers go on trial in ₽250.6mn embezzlement case
A criminal case involving lawyers charged with attempting to embezzle at least RUB250.6 million rubles (USD3.36 million) from Aeroflot (SU,… Read More »
Spain’s Volotea to open seasonal Olbia base
Volotea (V7, Asturias) has announced it will open a seasonal summer-only base in northern Sardinia, basing a single A319-100 out… Read More »
British Airways mulls sale of HQ due to homeworking
British Airways (BA, London Heathrow) is considering selling the building near London Heathrow that houses its headquarters, as the switch… Read More »
Norfolk Island sees resumption fo commercial pax flights
Norfolk Island, an Australian territory in the South Pacific, has become the focus of a bun fight between Qantas (QF,… Read More »
Italy’s Piaggio Aerospace bags four non-binding offers
Italian aerospace manufacturer Piaggio Aerospace (Genoa) has received four non-binding offers for the acquisition of the group’s aircraft and engine… Read More »
Ohio’s Ultimate Air Shuttle to resume scheduled ops in 2Q21
Ultimate Air Shuttle (UE, Cincinnati Lunken) has announced that it will restart scheduled operations on April 12, 2021, more than… Read More »
Uganda Airlines dismisses Auditor-General’s debt claims
Uganda Airlines (UR, Entebbe/Kampala) has denied it is indebted as claimed in a recent report by the country’s Auditor General,… Read More »
Egypt’s Air Cairo to expand into West Africa
Air Cairo (SM, Cairo Int’l) is to open a new route between Cairo Int’l and Conakry (Guinea) via Niamey (Niger)… Read More »
Alitalia newco to launch ops early 3Q21, plans asset tenders
ITA – Italia Trasporto Aereo, the newco Alitalia (AZ, Rome Fiumicino), must commence flight operations this summer, by June or… Read More »
Saudia inks historic $3bn fleet financing deal
Punted as the largest deal to date in Saudi Arabia’s aviation history, Saudia (SV, Jeddah) has clinched a SAR11.2 billion… Read More »
Ukraine will not nationalise Motor Sich – security secretary
Oleksiy Danilov, secretary of Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council (NSDC), has said that there is currently no talk of… Read More »
Jet Airways deal hits new hurdle, ex-CEO eyes new airline
The acquisition of Jet Airways (JAI, Mumbai Int’l) by the consortium of London-based Kalrock Capital and Dubai-based businessman Murari Lal… Read More »
Lithuania’s Heston Airlines adds first A320
Heston Airlines (HST, Vilnius) has taken delivery of its first aircraft, A320-200 LY-FJI (msn 2157), as it inches towards its… Read More »
Airbus, Boeing vie as Qantas says “now is the time to buy”
As Airbus and Boeing vie for a multi-billion dollar Qantas (QF, Sydney Kingsford Smith) order to replace its ageing B737-800… Read More »
Kigali in final talks with Qatar over RwandAir equity
The Rwandan government is in “final talks” with Qatar Airways (QR, Doha Hamad Int’l) over the sale of a 49%… Read More »
Ariana Afghan Airlines looks to grow B737 fleet
Ariana Afghan Airlines (FG, Kabul) is on the market for a B737-500, almost six months after it sold its first… Read More »
Air China to acquire five A320neo, 13 A321neo
Air China (CA, Beijing Capital) has announced in a stock market filing that it will buy eighteen A320neo Family narrowbodies… Read More »
Indigo Partners cuts Wizz Air stake to 8.5%
The largest shareholder in Wizz Air (W6, Budapest), Indigo Partners, has sold around GBP400 million pounds (USD554.7 million) worth of… Read More »