Nigeria’s Air Peace, Air Senegal to enter Southern Africa
Nigeria’s Air Peace (P4, Lagos) and Air Sénégal (HC, Dakar Blaise Diagne Int’l) plan to launch flights to Johannesburg O.R…. Read More »
SA Express’s provisional liquidation extended to early 1Q21
South African Express (XZ, Johannesburg O.R. Tambo) will remain in provisional liquidation until January 28, 2021, according to an extension… Read More »
South African Airways gets another gov’t bailout
South Africa’s National Treasury has granted another bailout of ZAR10.5 billion rand (USD638 million) to South African Airways (SA, Johannesburg… Read More »
Darbhanga, India to open to commercial traffic in mid-4Q20
SpiceJet (SG, Delhi Int’l) has announced it will launch services from the newly opened Darbhanga airport on November 8, 2020,… Read More »
SkyWest clinches Pennsylvania, Texas EAS contracts
SkyWest Airlines (OO, Salt Lake City) has been granted new three-year contracts to provide flights to Johnstown, Pennsylvania, and Victoria,… Read More »
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 »