Ryanair firms options for 75 B737-8-200s
Ryanair (FR, Dublin Int’l) has firmed options for seventy-five B737-8-200s to increase its total commitment to the type to 210… Read More »
Thai Airways to resume domestic flights by YE20
Thai Airways International (TG, Bangkok Suvarnabhumi) will restart domestic flights on two trunk routes, from Bangkok Suvarnabhumi to each of… Read More »
Ascent Global Logistics buys Hageland Aviation Services
Michigan-based firm Ascent Global Logistics has acquired defunct Alaskan regional specialist Hageland Aviation Services (H6, Saint Mary’s) and plans to… Read More »
Taiwan’s China Airlines takes first 777 freighter
China Airlines (CI, Taipei Taoyuan) took delivery of its first B777-200F on November 30, 2020, expanding its fleet of dedicated… Read More »
Nepal Airlines mulls options to get rid of Chinese aircraft
Nepal Airlines (RA, Kathmandu) has proposed to the Ministry of Tourism four options to offload six unwanted Chinese-made turboprops even… Read More »
SAA’s administrators between a rock and a hard place
The administrators of South African Airways (SA, Johannesburg O.R. Tambo) have confirmed they have received ZAR1.5 billion (USD97.9 million) in… Read More »
Norwegian to put emergency rescue plan up for vote
Norwegian (DY, Oslo Gardermoen) has scheduled an extraordinary general meeting for December 17 to ask shareholders to back a restructuring… Read More »
Air Namibia liquidation case postponed
Namibia’s High Court has again postponed a case in which Air Namibia (SW, Windhoek Int’l) is facing liquidation over a… Read More »
Qantas outsources ground-handling to save costs
Qantas (QF, Sydney Kingsford Smith) has announced the outsourcing of 2,000 ground staff jobs at ten airports across Australia in… Read More »
easyJet enlists restructuring firm to cut $1.9bn debt pile
easyJet (U2, London Luton) has enlisted American consulting and restructuring firm AlixPartners in an attempt to refinance its GBP1.4 billion… Read More »
Air Caraibes and Corsair Int’l CEOs clash over state aid
Air Caraibes Atlantique (CAJ, Paris Orly) and French Bee (BF, Paris Orly) chief executive Marc Rochet is prepared to file… Read More »
Boutique Air clinches Altoona, PA EAS contract
Boutique Air (4B, San Francisco, CA) has been granted a two-year contract to service Altoona in Pennsylvania, starting on January… Read More »
Frontier Airlines sues lessor in clash over leaseback deal
Frontier Airlines (F9, Denver Int’l) has sued Dublin-headquartered lessor AMCK Aviation for allegedly seeking to alter the terms of an… Read More »
AirAsia India plans more A320neo despite uncertainty
Despite speculation about its uncertain future and the ongoing strategic review at AirAsia Group, AirAsia India (I5, Bangalore Int’l) is… Read More »
Nigeria’s First Nation CEO charged with fraud
A long-standing NGN2.1 billion naira (USD5.5 million) fraud case against First Nation Airways (FRN, Lagos) Chairman and Chief Executive Officer… Read More »
Air France repeats call for a stretched A220-300
Air France-KLM Chief Executive Ben Smith reaffirmed the group’s belief that a stretched version of the A220 Family aircraft “would… Read More »
Court clears hurdle for Korean Air-Asiana merger; LCCs fret
An attempt to derail the planned merger of Korean Air (KE, Seoul Incheon) and Asiana Airlines (OZ, Seoul Incheon) lost… Read More »
Global industry bodies call for the extension of slot relief
The leading global associations of airlines, airport operators, and slot coordinators have called upon the legislators to extend slot relief… Read More »
Kenya Airways launches Johannesburg cargo base
Kenya Airways (KQ, Nairobi Jomo Kenyatta) has moved into a market gap left my stricken South African Airways (SA, Johannesburg… Read More »
airBaltic eyes IPO in 2022/3, opens Lithuanian entity
airBaltic (BT, Riga) has submitted a solution to Latvia’s Ministry of Transport to recover the EUR250 million euros (USD299 million)… Read More »
SpiceJet suspends seaplane ops for maintenance
SpiceJet (SG, Delhi Int’l) suspended its only seaplane route on November 27, 2020, due to the maintenance of the DHC-6-300… Read More »
Bangladesh’s Air71 eyes 3Q21 launch with B757 freighters
Air71 (Dhaka) plans to commence operations in the third quarter of 2021 with two B757-200(F)s, the start-up told Cargo Facts…. Read More »
Appeal Court dismisses Airlink’s appeal for SAA millions
South Africa’s Supreme Court of Appeal has dismissed with costs a claim by Airlink (South Africa) (4Z, Johannesburg O.R. Tambo)… Read More »
Thailand’s K-Mile Air to add B737-800(F) for DHL ops
K-Mile Air (8K, Bangkok Suvarnabhumi) is planning to add a B737-800(F) dedicated freighter in time for the March 2021 launch… Read More »
El Al mulls public bond sale, doubts going concern status
El Al Israel Airlines (LY, Tel Aviv Ben Gurion) has revealed that its board failed to reach a deal with… Read More »
Japan’s ANA Holdings looks to raise $3.2bn in added funding
Following rival JAL Group, which successfully raised JPY182.7 billion yen (USD1.5 billion), ANA Holdings has announced it will hold a… Read More »