Boeing targets 2021 for B737-7 deliveries, 2023 for the -10
Boeing (BOE, Chicago O’Hare) is hoping to complete the certification of its smallest B737 MAX Family variant, the B737-7, and… Read More »
Australia’s Qantas, Alliance Airlines ink capacity deal
A new capacity deal between Qantas (QF, Sydney Kingsford Smith) and Alliance Airlines (QQ, Brisbane Int’l) will see the replacement… Read More »
UPS Airlines takes redelivery of first upgraded A300(F)
UPS Airlines (5X, Louisville Int’l) has taken redelivery of the first of fifty-two A300-600Fs featuring upgraded avionics, extending the freighters’… Read More »
Fly Angola resumes flights after completing certification
Privately-owned Fly Angola (FLA, Luanda) has used the COVID-19 downturn to overhaul its aircraft and secure its own Air Operator’s… Read More »
Ireland’s Stobart Air to be sold this month – Esken
Esken Limited, known as Stobart Group until it formally changed its name on February 3, remains committed to offloading its… Read More »
Bahamasair to reduce staff through early retirement
Bahamasair (UP, Nassau Int’l) is to reintroduce an early retirement programme as the flag carrier looks to cut costs further… Read More »
Former SA Express executives under investigation
Former executives and directors of South African Express (EXY, Johannesburg O.R. Tambo) will be subpoenaed to appear before a High… Read More »
Air Belgium to operate two A330 freighters for CMA CGM
Air Belgium (KF, Brussels Charleroi) will operate two of its four incoming A330-200(F)s under a CMI agreement with French shipping… Read More »
Banks insist on new El Al cash injection before giving loan
With the market conditions for passenger aviation only worsening, in particular with Israel’s prolonged lockdown, banks are now demanding that… Read More »
Hong Kong Airlines hit with penalty over wage subsidy
Hong Kong Airlines (HX, Hong Kong Int’l) has been hit with a “penalty” for tapping government wage subsidies but failing… Read More »
Southwest Airlines to restart B737 MAX ops in late 1Q21
Southwest Airlines (WN, Dallas Love Field) has announced that it will resume scheduled B737-8 operations on March 11, 2021, following… Read More »
Korean court launches Eastar Jet rehabilitation process
Seoul Bankruptcy Court initiated on February 4 corporate rehabilitation proceedings at Eastar Jet (ESR, Seoul Gimpo), three weeks after granting… Read More »
HK’s Greater Bay Airlines mulls cargo ops as launch option
Greater Bay Airlines (Hong Kong Int’l) is pondering launching as a cargo-only specialist if COVID-related border restrictions continue through summer… Read More »
Belarus’s Belavia to retire B737 Classics by YE21
The new General Director of Belavia (B2, Minsk National), Igor Nikolaevich Cherginets, has pledged to retire all of its remaining… Read More »
Canada’s Sunwing secures C$375mn loan to save jobs
Thousands of jobs may have been saved at Sunwing Vacations Inc. and its low-cost subsidiary Sunwing Airlines (WG, Toronto Pearson)… Read More »
Nepal’s Himalaya Airlines,Yeti Airlines forge partnership
Nepal’s Himalaya Airlines (H9, Kathmandu) and sister carrier Yeti Airlines (YT, Kathmandu) have forged a strategic business partnership to integrate… Read More »
More retrenchments likely at LIAT
Another 103 employees of stricken LIAT (LIA, Antigua) are to be retrenched as the airline restructures, joining 564 who were… Read More »
Air Wisconsin to lay off 140 first officers
Air Wisconsin (ZW, Appleton) has notified the Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development that it will lay off 140 unionised first… Read More »
Air Namibia board resigns over spat with gov’t
The board of Air Namibia (SW, Windhoek Int’l) has resigned after launching a scathing attack on the Namibian government for… Read More »
Philippine Airlines confirms 2,300 layoffs
PAL Holdings has confirmed that it is implementing “a company-wide workforce reduction program” covering about 2,300 employees, or 30% of… Read More »
SAA to exit administration in mid-1Q21 says gov’t
The South African government expects South African Airways (SA, Johannesburg O.R. Tambo) to exit administration at the end of February… Read More »
Switzerland’s Moov Airways eyes turboprop ops in late 2022
Moov Airways (Basel/Mulhouse/Freiburg, CH) is planning to take delivery of its first turboprops for its regional operations out of Lugano… Read More »