Hong Kong gov’t set to take Cathay Pacific stake
The Government of Hong Kong is set to take a 6% stake in Cathay Pacific (CX, Hong Kong Int’l) as… Read More »
French court mulls manslaughter charges over Yemenia crash
French prosecutors are looking to take Yemenia (IY, Aden) to trial over the 2009 crash of an A310-300 that killed… Read More »
Namibian president advocates for Air Namibia liquidation
Namibian President Hage Geingob has said that Air Namibia (SW, Windhoek Int’l) should be liquidated since it is not making… Read More »
Virgin Group may pay $35-70mn to keep Virgin Australia stake
Richard Branson’s Virgin Group wants to invest between AUD50 and 100 million Australian dollars (USD35-70 million) in insolvent Virgin Australia… Read More »
EU questions Alitalia nationalisation plan
Italy will have to review its plan to nationalise and relaunch Alitalia (AZ, Rome Fiumicino) as a leaner airline if… Read More »
Amazon to add a further 12 B767-300(F)s from ATSG
Amazon.com has expanded its existing air transportation services agreement with Cargo Aircraft Management, a subsidiary of Air Transport Services Group,… Read More »
AirAsia confirms talks with investors amid SK Group interest
AirAsia Group has confirmed it is studying various proposals for capital injections to strengthen its equity base and improve its… Read More »
Emirates eyes closer ties with flydubai
Emirates (EK, Dubai Int’l) is planning to increase cooperation with its sister carrier flydubai (FZ, Dubai Int’l) in the post-COVID… Read More »
Garuda Indonesia attains approval to delay $500mn sukuk
Garuda Indonesia (GA, Jakarta Soekarno-Hatta) has secured 90% approval to restructure its sukuk bond obligations, a vital step towards improving… Read More »
UAE greenlights resumption of full hub ops at three airports
The UAE’s National Emergency Crisis and Disasters Management Authority (NECADMA) has given its consent to the resumption of largescale hub… Read More »
Romania’s Animawings secures first aircraft, an A320
Animawings (AWG, Bucharest Otopeni) has taken delivery of its first aircraft, A320-200 SX-DGI (msn 3162), as part of its certification… Read More »
Hawaii’s Makani Kai Air, Mokulele Airlines announce merger
Makani Kai Air (Honolulu) and Mokulele Airlines (MW, Kona) have announced they will merge their operations and operate under the… Read More »
MPs propose taking away BA’s Heathrow slots over job cuts
A number of British Members of Parliament, including the chairman of the Transport Select Committee, Huw Merriman, have called for… Read More »
Air Canada raises $1.2bn, says it still wants Transat deal
Air Canada (AC, Montréal Trudeau) has announced the closing of its previously announced fund-raising effort, hauling in nearly CAD1.6 billion… Read More »
IAG may sue UK gov’t, BA threatens to sack all pilots
Furious with the British government’s “irrational” changes in its approach to tackling the coronavirus pandemic, British Airways (BA, London Heathrow)… Read More »
US DOT permits Chinese carriers to conduct limited service
The United States Government has walked back its threat to ban all incoming flights by Chinese carriers after China eased… Read More »
Volga-Dnepr loses court battle to Boeing over freighters
Volga-Dnepr Group has lost a case against Boeing (BOE, Chicago O’Hare) in a court in the United States, allowing the… Read More »
Air Serbia warns of looming default on debts to Etihad SPVs
Air Serbia (JU, Belgrade) has notified EA Partners I and II, two Netherlands-based special purpose vehicles belonging to Etihad Airways… Read More »
Malawi Airlines seeking government bailout
Malawi Airlines (3W, Lilongwe) is looking for a MWK385 million kwacha (USD527,000) bailout from the government to keep paying its… Read More »
Korean Air goes ahead with sale of lucrative catering unit
Korean Air (KE, Seoul Incheon) has decided to press ahead with a plan to sell its lucrative inflight catering business… Read More »
UAE’s Air Arabia lays off more staff
Air Arabia (G9, Sharjah) plans to lay off more staff in a second round of cuts that could affect 10%… Read More »
Berlin Tegel, Germany to remain open through 4Q20
Berlin Tegel airport will remain open until November as coronavirus travel restrictions are eased. The airport’s operators earlier proposed suspending… Read More »
AirAsia India pilots facing salary cuts
AirAsia India (I5, Chennai) will cut pilots’ salaries by 40% for May and June as the carrier deals with the… Read More »
Administrators facing headwinds in rescuing Air Mauritius
Air Mauritius (MK, Mauritius) is continuing its suspension of scheduled international passenger flights until the end of June, and has… Read More »
Air Vanuatu defers A220 deliveries
Air Vanuatu (NF, Port Vila) has announced that it has deferred the planned delivery of its first A220 aircraft, originally… Read More »
Emirates noncommittal on future aircraft deliveries
Emirates (EK, Dubai Int’l) is “nowhere near confident enough” to commit to taking deliveries of all of its ordered aircraft,… Read More »