Australian carriers up capacity as interstate borders reopen
The reopening of the border between Queensland, Victoria (VIC), and Greater Sydney on December 1, 2020, will see Australian carriers… Read More »
Brazil’s ANAC, EU’s EASA proceed to unground B737 MAX
The Brazilian civil aviation authority (Agência Nacional de Aviação Civil – ANAC) became the world’s first regulator outside of the… Read More »
Russia’s Volga-Dnepr Airlines grounds An-124s for checks
Volga-Dnepr Airlines (VI, Ulyanovsk Vostochny) has told Russia’s federal air transport regulator (Rosaviatsia) that it has grounded all of its… Read More »
Tata Sons injects funds into AirAsia India, Vistara
Indian industrial conglomerate Tata Sons remains committed to the aviation sector and will inject emergency funding into both its airlines,… Read More »
Greece’s SKY Express takes first A320neo; outlines ops
SKY Express (Greece) (GQ, Heraklion) took delivery of its first A320-200N on November 6, 2020, and plans to commence operations… Read More »
Southwest Airlines warns of furloughs, gears for MAX restart
Southwest Airlines (WN, Dallas Love Field) has warned 402 employees, mostly mechanics, that they could be furloughed on January 25,… Read More »
Arizona’s Mesa Airlines extends CPA with American Airlines
Mesa Airlines (YV, Phoenix Sky Harbor) has announced it has renewed its Capacity Purchase Agreement (CPA) with American Airlines (AA,… Read More »
Loganair to switch IOM route from London City to Heathrow
Loganair (LM, Glasgow Int’l) has announced it will replace its Isle of Man-London City route with services to London Heathrow… Read More »
Hong Kong, Singapore delay travel bubble
Hong Kong and Singapore have announced they have postponed the launch of their planned “travel bubble” arrangement, originally due to… Read More »
United Airlines to offer 25.3mn shares to raise $1bn
United Airlines Holdings plans to offer 25,322,567 shares of unsold common stock, it announced in a November 23 stock exchange… Read More »
Garuda Indonesia shareholders back $600mn bond bailout
Garuda Indonesia (GA, Jakarta Soekarno-Hatta) has secured shareholder approval to issue seven-year convertible bonds with a maximum amount of IDR8.5… Read More »
Alaska Airlines to swap 10 A320s for 13 B737 MAX 9s
Alaska Airlines (AS, Seattle Tacoma Int’l) has reached an agreement wherein it will sell all 10 of its remaining owned… Read More »
AirAsia partners with Turkish Airlines to sell tickets
AirAsia Group has announced a new partnership with Turkish Airlines (TK, Istanbul New), wherein the Malaysian group will “virtually interline”… Read More »
Boeing seeks reversal of Norwegian lawsuit as creditors mass
Although the High Court of Ireland has granted Norwegian (DY, Oslo Gardermoen) and its five Irish subsidiaries, which own many… Read More »
Victoria, New South Wales reopen frontier
The Qantas Group is expecting a “boom in domestic travel” buoyed by a sharp rebound in travel demand as state… Read More »
Willis Lease Finance seeks 30 unencumbered turboprops
Willis Lease Finance has issued a Request for Proposals (RFP) concerning its planned acquisition of 30 unencumbered, off-lease turboprops –… Read More »
US plots to sanction COMAC, AVIC – report
The US Department of Commerce is planning to impose sanctions on 89 Chinese aerospace firms, including aircraft manufacturers AVIC and… Read More »
Australia’s Eastern Air Services plots Lord Howe expansion
Eastern Air Services doubled its network to Lord Howe Island, a UNESCO World Heritage Site around 600 kilometres east of… Read More »
Aegean Airlines “in final stage” of Greek gov’t rescue talks
Aegean Airlines (A3, Athens Int’l) has confirmed that it “is in the final stage of discussions” with the Greek government… Read More »
Texas’s Judah 1 eyes larger planes for missionary flights
US non-profit start-up Judah 1 (Sherman) plans to debut as a non-scheduled religious airline out of Shreveport Regional in Louisiana… Read More »
India’s Vistara eyes direct US flights
Vistara (UK, Delhi Int’l) is evaluating options for non-stop flights between India and the United States, Chief Commercial Officer Vinod… Read More »
Malaysia’s Love2Fly returns only aircraft
Malaysian start-up Love2Fly (WW) has returned its only B737-800 to its lessor, casting doubt over the airline’s planned launch in… Read More »