California’s Advanced Air Charters expands to Mammoth Lakes
Advanced Air Charters (AN, Hawthorne) has announced three new seasonal routes from California’s coastal cities to Mammoth Lakes, CA, as… Read More »
Ukraine International Airlines to add second London route
Ukraine International Airlines (PS, Kyiv Boryspil) has announced the start of services to London Heathrow on December 17, 2020, complimenting… Read More »
Malaysia Airlines seeks $500mn, creditor talks drag – report
Malaysia Aviation Group has asked its parent, the sovereign wealth fund Khazanah Nasional, for a USD500 million bailout as debt… Read More »
EASA targets early 1Q21 for B737 MAX recertification
The European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) is targeting January 2021 for the recertification of B737 MAX aircraft, the agency’s… Read More »
LOT set to exit Estonia’s Xfly in late 4Q20
Estonia’s state-owned flag carrier Nordica (EE, Tallinn Lennart Meri) will “terminate” LOT Polish Airlines’ 49% ownership in its ACMI/charter subsidiary… Read More »
Aer Lingus obtains slots for long-haul ops from Manchester
Aer Lingus (EI, Dublin Int’l) has obtained slots at Manchester Int’l for unspecified long-haul routes and plans to base one… Read More »
AirAsia X to resume ops early 2021, apply for $122m loan
AirAsia X (D7, Kuala Lumpur Int’l) has outlined as part of its third-quarter report that it is conducting a “rationalisation”… Read More »
Indonesia’s Lion Air dodges two bankruptcy lawsuits
The District Court of Central Jakarta dismissed on November 20 two bankruptcy lawsuits against Lion Air Group filed by two… Read More »
Pakistan’s PIA to lay-off 33% of its staff
The Pakistan government has approved PKR12.87 billion rupees (USD81.46 million) in funding to support a planned voluntary redundancy scheme at… Read More »
US Airlines Take Different Approaches to Thanksgiving
Coronavirus Capacity Update Week Forty-Five: Global aviation capacity continues to hover around the 55 million mark with an additional 400,000… Read More »
IATA Announces Creation of Digital COVID-19 Travel Pass
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) today announced that it’s in the final development stages for a mobile app called ‘IATA Travel… Read More »
Delta Teams With TSA at Atlanta Airport on New Security Tech
Delta Air Lines has announced a new program to help speed up security lines at an Atlanta airport ahead of the… Read More »
Holiday Air Travel off to Big Start
Well, if Friday and Saturday (Nov. 20 and 21) were any indications, the holiday air travel season is going to be a… Read More »
United Airlines Expands COVID-19 Testing Program to Latin America, Caribbean
United Airlines announced it would expand its COVID-19 testing program to include flights from Houston to destinations in Latin America and… Read More »
Delta CEO Says NY-to-London Corridor Not as Easy as First Thought
A New York-to-London air travel corridor might not be as easy as some people think, Delta Air Lines CEO Ed… Read More »
Brightline to Build High-Speed Rail Station at Walt Disney World Resort
Walt Disney World Resort and Miami-based intercity rail service Brightline today announced the formalization of an agreement to construct a train station at… Read More »
Virgin Limited Edition BVI Properties to Reopen December 1
Virgin Limited Edition, the collection of luxury properties owned by Sir Richard Branson, has scheduled the reopening of its British… Read More »
Virginia’s Dynamic Aviation to invest $47.9mn in MRO
Dynamic Aviation (Bridgewater) has announced it will build a new office, maintenance, and aircraft storage facility at Bridgewater, VA, airport,… Read More »
American Airlines confirms B737 MAX restart by YE20
American Airlines (AA, Dallas/Fort Worth) has confirmed it will resume commercial B737-8 flight operations by the end of the year,… Read More »
Delta, WestJet drop JV plans; claim DOT terms too onerous
Delta Air Lines (DL, Atlanta Hartsfield Jackson) and WestJet (WS, Calgary) have announced they have dropped their plans to establish… Read More »
Air Mauritius postpones watershed meeting
The administrators of Air Mauritius (MK, Mauritius) have obtained permission from the country’s Supreme Court to postpone the watershed meeting… Read More »
easyJet continues sale/lease-backs drive with 10 A320s
easyJet (U2, London Luton) has announced yet another sale and leaseback transaction, this time covering ten A320 family aircraft sold… Read More »
Saudia received $6.75bn in state aid in 2019-2020 – report
The Government of Saudi Arabia funnelled at least USD7 billion into state-owned flag carrier Saudia (SV, Jeddah) in 2019 and… Read More »
Creditors unwilling to fund Jet Airways’ restart
Lenders are hesitant to inject any fresh funds into Jet Airways (JAI, Mumbai Int’l) to finance the airline’s planned resurrection… Read More »
Brussels shuts state aid probe into Air Nostrum CRJ purchase
The European Commission has closed its in-depth investigation into a EUR9 million euro (USD10.6 million) Spanish regional government disbursement to… Read More »
Nigeria lifts ban on Lufthansa, KLM, and Air France
The Nigerian government has lifted its flight ban on Lufthansa (LH, Frankfurt Int’l), KLM Royal Dutch Airlines (KL, Amsterdam Schiphol),… Read More »