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 »
Scott IPC and Satcom Direct announce SDR flight data integration

Scott IPC and Satcom Direct (SD), the business aviation solutions provider, has unveiled a new integrated data solution for joint… Read More »
BOC Aviation Limited delivers A321neos to Middle East Airlines

BOC Aviation Limited announced that it has delivered the first two of five new Airbus A321neo aircraft for lease to… Read More »
West Star Aviation announces new GJT Project Manager Jason Mital

West Star Aviation welcomes Jason Mital as a new Project Manager at their Grand Junction, Colorado (GJT) facility. Jason has… Read More »
Pratt & Whitney Canada powered turbofan operators can offset their carbon emissions

Pratt & Whitney, a division of Raytheon Technologies Corporation announced that its Pratt & Whitney Canada unit is launching a… Read More »
New Stimulus Package Proposal Calls for $17 Billion for Airlines

A new, bipartisan COVID-19 relief package would include $17 billion for the struggling airline industry, a spokeswoman for Senator Mark Warner… Read More »
Airlines Offering Safety Tours to Corporate Travel Managers

U.S. airlines are inviting corporate travel managers to tour their health and safety protocols in a bid to bring back business… Read More »
American Airlines Expands Digital Health Pass Trial, Pre-Flight COVID-19 Testing

American Airlines is expanding access to the VeriFLY mobile app and pre-flight COVID-19 testing this winter, making travel easier for passengers visiting… Read More »
FCC Quashes Proposal to Allow In-Flight Phone Calls

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has officially rejected a seven-year-old proposal to lift the ban on in-flight cellphone calls on… Read More »
World of Hyatt Halves Elite Status Earnings Requirements for 2021

World of Hyatt, Hyatt’s award-winning guest loyalty program, has just announced that it will enable members to achieve elite status… Read More »
Embraer delivers first of Praetor 600 fleet to Flexjet

Embraer has delivered the first jet in a fleet of Praetor 600s to Flexjet. The aircraft will be used for… 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 »
Appeal Court dismisses Airlink’s appeal for SAA millions

South Africa’s Supreme Court of Appeal has dismissed with costs a claim by Airlink (South Africa) (4Z, Johannesburg O.R. Tambo)… Read More »
Thailand’s K-Mile Air to add B737-800(F) for DHL ops

K-Mile Air (8K, Bangkok Suvarnabhumi) is planning to add a B737-800(F) dedicated freighter in time for the March 2021 launch… Read More »
El Al mulls public bond sale, doubts going concern status

El Al Israel Airlines (LY, Tel Aviv Ben Gurion) has revealed that its board failed to reach a deal with… Read More »
Japan’s ANA Holdings looks to raise $3.2bn in added funding

Following rival JAL Group, which successfully raised JPY182.7 billion yen (USD1.5 billion), ANA Holdings has announced it will hold a… Read More »