India’s SpiceJet to appeal De Havilland $43mn lawsuit win
SpiceJet (SG, Delhi Int’l) has said it will appeal against a ruling at the High Court of Justice in London,… Read More »
Transatlantic tariffs over Airbus/Boeing subsidies lifted
In separate trade accords, the United States has agreed with the United Kingdom and the European Commission to reciprocally suspend… Read More »
Employee consortium out of race to buy Air India – report
The employee consortium that expressed an interest in buying Air India (AI, Mumbai Int’l) has not been shortlisted for the… Read More »
Egypt’s Air Cairo, SunExpress ink cooperation agreement
Air Cairo (SM, Cairo Int’l) is making a major push into the German-speaking market, having signed a sales cooperation agreement… Read More »
Alaska Airlines launches B737 MAX 9 operations
Alaska Airlines (AS, Seattle Tacoma Int’l) launched B737-9 operations on March 1, 2021, just over a month after the first… Read More »
Utah’s Skywest takes over EAS at Joplin, MO from AA
Utah-based regional carrier SkyWest Airlines (OO, Salt Lake City) will launch daily flights from Joplin, Missouri, to both Chicago O’Hare… Read More »
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 »