Malaysia Airlines parent offers early retirement scheme
Malaysia Airlines (MH, Kuala Lumpur Int’l) parent Malaysia Aviation Group has offered early retirement to its employees as it continues… Read More »
Wizz Air hopes for new post-Brexit slot rules in the UK
Wizz Air UK (W9, London Luton) is lobbying the British government to change slot allocation rules following the end of… Read More »
UK’s Titan Airways takes first A321neo(LR)
Titan Airways (ZT, London Stansted) has taken delivery of the first of two A321-200NX(LR)s due to be operated, among others,… Read More »
SpiceJet wet-leases Maldivian Twin Otter for seaplane ops
SpiceJet (SG, Delhi Int’l) has wet-leased a DHC-6-300 amphibian from Maldivian (Q2, Malé) for use in operating India’s first-ever scheduled… Read More »
Lithuanian ACMI start-up Heston Airlines to launch in 1Q21
Lithuanian lessor and MRO provider Heston Aviation has launched all-A320 operator Heston Airlines (Vilnius), which will focus on charter and… Read More »
Solomon Airlines pleads for gov’t support
Solomons – Solomon Airlines (IE, Honiara) needs state funding to survive after the Solomon Islands government extended the closure of… Read More »
Former Spicejet owner tells court to hand stake back
Indian media baron Kalanithi Maran, owner of the Chennai-based conglomerate Sun Group, has asked the High Court of Delhi to… Read More »
Japan’s ANA to launch new airline in rejigged business model
ANA Holdings has set out a series of measures towards what it calls a new business model to survive the… Read More »
Belgium’s VizionAir expands chartered fleet
VizionAir (Antwerp) has expanded its fleet of aircraft available for charter through the addition of a Fokker 50 operated by… Read More »
Southwest Airlines eyes A220/B737-7 decision by 2025
Southwest Airlines (WN, Dallas Love Field) is evaluating both the A220-300 and B737-7 ahead of an order and deliveries which… Read More »
Japan’s Peach Aviation restarts international services
Peach Aviation (MM, Osaka Kansai) restarted international flights on October 25, 2020, more than seven months after all such scheduled… Read More »
Japan’s StarFlyer mulls capital increase of up to $95mn
StarFlyer (7G, Kita Kyushu) has denied reports that it has resolved to issue new shares through a third-party allotment to… Read More »
Alaska Airlines ponders future of A320 leases
Alaska Airlines (AS, Seattle Tacoma Int’l) is evaluating options regarding the dry-leases of around two-thirds of its Airbus aircraft which… Read More »
One-day strike cost to Ghana airlines
Ghana’s two main domestic airlines Africa World Airlines (AW, Accra) and PassionAir (OP, Accra) have lost an estimated GHS330,000 cedi… Read More »
Paraguay reopens for commercial traffic
Several airlines are resuming commercial flights to Paraguay following the reopening of the country’s main international airports, Asuncion and Ciudad… Read More »
Pakistan’s Rayyan Air secures 777 cargo capacity to China
Rayyan Air (RAB, Islamabad Benazir Bhutto Int’l) will charter a B777 from PIA – Pakistan International Airlines (PK, Islamabad Quaid-e-Azam… Read More »
Japan’s ANA to cut 3,500 staff; widebody fleet by 30
ANA Holdings is considering reducing its workforce by 3,500 employees by 2022, to be achieved through natural reductions such as… Read More »
Turkish Airlines adds first A350-900, rejigs deliveries
Turkish Airlines (TK, Istanbul New) has reached an agreement with Airbus (AIB, Toulouse Blagnac) to restructure its order backlog even… Read More »
Dublin Aerospace boss sets up new Irish carrier
Emerald Airlines is hoping to secure a lucrative regional white-label flying contract with Aer Lingus (EI, Dublin Int’l) which is… Read More »
Slovakia’s Go2Sky agrees with lessors to restart in 2021
Having announced its closure at the end of August this year, Slovak ACMI/charter specialist Go2Sky (6G, Bratislava) has now managed… Read More »
UK’s JOTA Aviation retires B146-200, opens Biggin Hill base
JOTA Aviation (ENZ, London Southend) retired its last BAe 146-200, G-SMLA (msn E2047), on October 22, 2020 The last BAe… Read More »
Wizz Air boosts domestic Norway, Italy ops with new bases
Wizz Air (W6, Budapest) has announced it will launch two new bases, in Bari in Italy and Trondheim in Norway,… Read More »