Aeroméxico seeks four more months to file restructuring plan
Grupo Aeroméxico has asked the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York to extend the deadline… Read More »
Turkey’s Pegasus Airlines set to issue $21mn worth of bonds
Pegasus Airlines (PC, Istanbul Sabiha Gökcen) has announced it will issue TRY150 million lira (USD21 million) worth of 365-day bonds…. Read More »
Canada’s Sunwing receives takeover offer, says CEO
The chief executive of Sunwing Travel Group, Stephen Hunter, has revealed that its low-cost subsidiary Sunwing Airlines (WG, Toronto Pearson)… Read More »
United, American, Hawaiian warn of job losses in early 2Q21
Airlines in the United States have issued fresh warnings of job losses once the second round of payroll support expires… Read More »
Singapore Airlines converts B787-10 orders to B777-9s
Singapore Airlines Group has announced that it has converted orders for fourteen B787-10s into eleven B777-9s as a part of… Read More »
Hainan Airlines Holdings to restructure up to ¥72.5bn debts
Hainan Airlines Holding revealed in a disclosure on February 9 that it expects to restructure interest-bearing debts amounting to no… Read More »
Moves to disqualify Boutique Air from Jackson EAS tender
Southern Airways Express (9X, Memphis Int’l) and Air Choice One (3E, St. Louis Lambert Int’l) are trying to have Boutique… Read More »
Sun Country Airlines outlines plans to IPO on Nasdaq
Sun Country Airlines (SY, Minneapolis/St. Paul) has outlined plans for an Initial Public Offering (IPO) on the NASDAQ stock exchange,… Read More »
Samoa’s Talofa Airways suspends flights over COVID-19
Talofa Airways (Apia Faleolo) has suspended scheduled services until Samoa reopens its borders, the airline confirmed to ch-aviation by email…. Read More »
India’s gov’t spotlights Assam for aviation development
As part of a major boost to infrastructure development that the Indian government of Narendra Modi has announced for the… Read More »
RwandAir granted Ghana 5th freedom rights to US
RwandAir (WB, Kigali) plans to launch scheduled services from Kigali via Accra, Ghana to New York JFK in December 2021… Read More »
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 »