South Africa backtracks after Emirates cancels flights
The South African government has backtracked on visa obligations for certain travellers and has clarified health requirements for flight crews… Read More »
Bids open for Israir; Arkia suggests merger
IDB Development, the indebted holding group that owns Israir (6H, Tel Aviv Sde Dov), is hunting for investments to keep… Read More »
Estonia’s NyxAir wins Saaremaa PSO award, court rules
NyxAir (NYX, Tallinn Lennart Meri) has officially won a long-contested tender to operate an Estonian public service obligation route between… Read More »
Air Namibia faces liquidation over Challengair debt default
An old debt to Belgium’s bankrupt Challengair (1I, Brussels National) may eventually catch up with Air Namibia (SW, Windhoek Int’l)… Read More »
Avianca wins court approval for $2bn financing plan
The US Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York has approved a proposed financing plan allowing Avianca Holdings… Read More »
DOT fines Emirates $400k for Iran NOTAM violations
Emirates (EK, Dubai Int’l) has been fined USD400,000 by the US government for violating a June 2019 NOTAM which banned… Read More »
Nigeria’s Elin Group secures AOC; preps for pax charter ops
Elin Group is set to begin passenger charter operations after securing its Air Operator’s Certificate (AOC) from the Nigerian Civil… Read More »
TUI Group ponders seeking more capital after state aid
TUI Group said it continued “evaluating various measures” to further strengthen its balance sheet just days after the German state-owned… Read More »
Bulgaria’s GullivAir targets US flights
Bulgarian start-up GullivAir (Sofia) has unveiled plans to operate three weekly scheduled return flights between Sofia and New York JFK…. Read More »
Ethiopian offer may be in the mix for SAA
The administrators of South African Airways (SA, Johannesburg O.R. Tambo) say they are unaware of a reported offer from Ethiopian… Read More »
US airlines commence mass furloughs with no state funding
Following the failure of the US lawmakers to extend the Payroll Support Program (PSP) beyond the September 30, 2020, deadline,… Read More »
KLM submits job-slashing restructuring plan to Dutch state
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines (KL, Amsterdam Schiphol) has submitted a plan to restructure its operations to the Dutch state, a… Read More »
Airasia, Airasia X settle fines of $480,000 each – report
AirAsia (AK, Kuala Lumpur Int’l) and AirAsia X (D7, Kuala Lumpur Int’l) have settled financial penalties that the Malaysian Aviation… Read More »
AirAsia Japan confirms shutdown
AirAsia Japan (DJ, Nagoya Chubu) will terminate all operations effective October 5, 2020, confirming earlier media reports. The Japanese subsidiary… Read More »
ASL Airlines Belgium inks capacity deal with Japan’s NCA
ASL Airlines Belgium (3V, Liège) has signed an agreement with Japan’s NCA – Nippon Cargo Airlines (KZ, Tokyo Narita) to… Read More »
Delaware’s Via Airlines files to restart operations
Via Airlines (SRY, Orlando Int’l) has filed an application with the US Department of Transportation (DOT) to resume commuter air… Read More »
Indonesia to liquidate Merpati as state-owned enterprise
Merpati (Jakarta Soekarno-Hatta) is among 14 state companies that Erick Thohir, Indonesia’s minister of state-owned enterprises (SOEs), is planning to… Read More »
US carriers outline federal loan amounts
Six out of seven major US carriers have detailed the term loans they each obtained from the US Treasury Department… Read More »
Tajikistan’s Somon Air reignites B737 MAX plans
Somon Air (SZ, Dushanbe) is again evaluating the B737 MAX and is in talks with Boeing about the type’s B737-8… Read More »
Indian gov’t mulls Embraer aircraft unit purchase – report
The Government of India is “very interested” in buying Embraer’s Commercial Aircraft division, an unnamed “top-ranking government official” has told… Read More »
Int’l carriers suspend Armenia ops as Azeri conflict flares
The escalation of a long-running conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region has seen Ukraine International Airlines… Read More »
Founders of Indonesia’s Lion Air mull new airline
A group of founders of Lion Air Group, including its co-owner Rusdi Kirana, has filed an application for an Air… Read More »
South Africa’s Mango resumes ops after agreement with MRO
Mango Airlines (JE, Johannesburg O.R. Tambo) resumed in-house flight operations on October 3, 2020, after reaching an agreement with sister… Read More »
Nigeria’s Ibom Air reveals growth plans
Nigeria’s Ibom Air (QI, Uyo) plans to double its Bombardier Aerospace fleet in the next three years and aspires to… Read More »
Greece’s Aegean Airlines defers A320neo Family deliveries
Aegean Airlines (A3, Athens Int’l) has announced in its quarterly earnings release that it will defer deliveries of eleven A320neo… Read More »
EgyptAir obtains $191mn loan to pay external loans, leases
Egypt’s Ministry of Finance approved on September 29 “long-term financing” of EGP3 billion Egyptian pounds (USD191 million) to EgyptAir (MS,… Read More »