Air Taxi India completes certification, to launch UDAN ops
Air Taxi (India) (Delhi Int’l) has secured its Air Operators Permit (AOP) from the Indian Directorate General of Civil Aviation… Read More »
Australia’s Rex complains over Qantas’s capacity dumping
Rex – Regional Express (ZL, Wagga Wagga) has filed a complaint with the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) alleging… Read More »
FedEx Express modernises fleet with delivery of first purpose-built regional ATR freighter
FedEx Express the world’s largest express transportation company, has announced the delivery of the first ever purpose-built turboprop regional freighter… Read More »
Textron Aviation announces new Cessna Citation flight data monitoring service options
Textron Aviation has announced new aircraft flight data monitoring (FDM) service options for Cessna Citation business jets equipped with Aircraft… Read More »
Airlines Begin Bringing Back Furloughed Employees
As American and United airlines begin the process of bringing back some 30,000 furloughed employees as part of the second coronavirus… Read More »
Quark Expeditions Launches Industry’s Most Rigorous COVID Travel Policy
Quark Expeditions, the recognized leader in Polar Adventures, has unveiled the most comprehensive, traveler-focused COVID policy in the travel industry…. Read More »
Costa Accepts Delivery of Ship in ‘Sign of Hope’ for Cruising
Costa Cruises took delivery of the 5,200-passenger Costa Firenze ship from the Italian shipyard Fincantieri. Delivery of the 135,000-gross-ton ship is… Read More »
easyJet agrees with Airbus to defer 22 deliveries
easyJet (U2, London Luton) has announced it has reached an agreement with Airbus to defer a total of 22 aircraft… Read More »
PIA plots staff cuts while fleet set to grow
PIA – Pakistan International Airlines (PK, Islamabad Quaid-e-Azam Int’l) plans to halve its payroll through staff redundancies while at the… Read More »
Canadian Air Force may replace CC-150s with ex-civilian jets
The Canadian government is considering buying five second-hand aircraft from the country’s troubled carriers to replace five A310-300s operated by… Read More »
BA to restart non-TATL, domestic ops from Gatwick in 1Q21
British Airways (BA, London Heathrow) will transfer three of its London Heathrow long-haul services to London Gatwick at the end… Read More »
US to designate Russia’s UAC, China’s AVIC as military users
The US Department of Commerce (DOC) has unveiled plans to add 103 Russian and Chinese entities to its list of… Read More »
Delta aims to block SpiceJet’s US plans, demands reciprocity
Delta Air Lines (DL, Atlanta Hartsfield Jackson) has petitioned the US Department of Transportation (DOT) to deny SpiceJet (SG, Delhi… Read More »
Lebanon’s MEA to stop accepting domestic USD payments
MEA – Middle East Airlines (ME, Beirut) will cease to accept payments for its services in US Dollar transfers from… Read More »
Australia’s Alliance Airlines ramps up E190 purchases
Alliance Airlines (QQ, Brisbane Int’l) has entered into an agreement with Jetran for the purchase of 16 additional E190s and… Read More »
Air Greenland firms A330neo order, delays delivery to 4Q22
Air Greenland (GL, Nuuk) has firmed up a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) it signed with Airbus (AIB, Toulouse Blagnac) in… Read More »
Belavia takes delivery of first Embraer E195-E2
Belavia, Belarusian Airlines, the national carrier of Belarus, took delivery today of their first E2 next generation Embraer aircraft in… Read More »
Passengers Open Plane Door Before Takeoff, Escape via Emergency Slide
Two passengers and their service dog reportedly opened the door of their plane just before takeoff and exited via an emergency… Read More »
Alaska Airlines Announces New Deal for Boeing 737 MAX Planes
Alaska Airlines announced a new agreement with Boeing to purchase 23 additional 737-9 MAX airplanes. Alaska’s new order builds on the carrier’s original… Read More »
FAA Now Wants To Fine Violators of Face Mask Mandate
It’s one thing for airlines to ban passengers who violate the face mask mandate on planes. It’s another to hit… Read More »
Passengers Attempt To Rescue Dying Man on Plane
Three United Airlines passengers who attempted to save the life of a dying man on a flight last week did… Read More »
Royal Caribbean Launches $40 Million Loan Program for Travel Advisors
Royal Caribbean Group is offering three-year, interest-free loans of up to $250,000 to travel agencies under financial stress from the nine-month… Read More »
American Airlines gains Heathrow slot pair from Finnair
American Airlines (AA, Dallas/Fort Worth) has entered into a slot swap agreement with its Oneworld and transatlantic JBA partner Finnair… Read More »
Korea’s T’way Air inks LOI for three A330s
T’way Air (TW, Seoul Gimpo) has signed a Letter of Intent (LOI) with an unspecified lessor covering three A330-300s it… Read More »
Transat shareholders back Air Canada deal despite late offer
Despite receiving a late and higher-priced competing proposal, “an overwhelming majority” of shareholders in Air Transat (TS, Montréal Trudeau) parent… Read More »
JSX Air sues Santa Ana, CA airport for discrimination
JSX Air (XE, Dallas Love Field) has filed a lawsuit in the Central District Court-Southern Division against Orange County, CA,… Read More »