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 »
AirAsia Japan’s future hangs in the balance
AirAsia Group has tentatively approved the closure of its AirAsia Japan (DJ, Nagoya Chubu) unit, with a formal announcement expected… Read More »
Australia’s Rex to add B737s in mid-4Q20
Rex – Regional Express (ZL, Wagga Wagga) has confirmed it has signed dry-lease agreements with two lessors covering a total… Read More »
Air Serbia settles $57.6mn debt with Etihad bondholders
Air Serbia (JU, Belgrade) managed to repay a USD57.6 million loan from Etihad Airways special purpose vehicle EA Partners I… Read More »
Nigeria’s Green Africa Airways postpones launch to 1Q21
The launch date for Nigerian start-up Green Africa Airways (Q9, Lagos) has been delayed to early 2021, with the airline… Read More »
Japan’s Peach Aviation takes delivery of first A320neo
Peach Aviation (MM, Osaka Kansai) has taken delivery of its first A320-200N and plans to induct the type into revenue… Read More »
New York’s Hopscotch Air finds new market gap
Fear of commercial flights during the pandemic has opened a market gap for New York-based air taxi firm Hopscotch Air… Read More »
Canada’s Air North warns of further job cuts
Canada’s Air North (4N, Whitehorse Int’l) has warned it may have to make further job cuts when the federal government… Read More »
Utah’s SkyWest enters $573mn CARES Act facility, draws $60mn
SkyWest, the holding company for SkyWest Airlines (OO, Salt Lake City) and SkyWest Leasing, has entered into a five-year loan… Read More »