Nigeria’s First Nation CEO charged with fraud
A long-standing NGN2.1 billion naira (USD5.5 million) fraud case against First Nation Airways (FRN, Lagos) Chairman and Chief Executive Officer… Read More »
Air France repeats call for a stretched A220-300
Air France-KLM Chief Executive Ben Smith reaffirmed the group’s belief that a stretched version of the A220 Family aircraft “would… Read More »
Court clears hurdle for Korean Air-Asiana merger; LCCs fret
An attempt to derail the planned merger of Korean Air (KE, Seoul Incheon) and Asiana Airlines (OZ, Seoul Incheon) lost… Read More »
Global industry bodies call for the extension of slot relief
The leading global associations of airlines, airport operators, and slot coordinators have called upon the legislators to extend slot relief… Read More »
Kenya Airways launches Johannesburg cargo base
Kenya Airways (KQ, Nairobi Jomo Kenyatta) has moved into a market gap left my stricken South African Airways (SA, Johannesburg… Read More »
airBaltic eyes IPO in 2022/3, opens Lithuanian entity
airBaltic (BT, Riga) has submitted a solution to Latvia’s Ministry of Transport to recover the EUR250 million euros (USD299 million)… Read More »
SpiceJet suspends seaplane ops for maintenance
SpiceJet (SG, Delhi Int’l) suspended its only seaplane route on November 27, 2020, due to the maintenance of the DHC-6-300… Read More »
Bangladesh’s Air71 eyes 3Q21 launch with B757 freighters
Air71 (Dhaka) plans to commence operations in the third quarter of 2021 with two B757-200(F)s, the start-up told Cargo Facts…. Read More »