Colombo must privatise SriLankan Airlines
Sri Lanka’s State-owned Enterprise Restructuring Board has advised the government to suspend state assistance and restructure SriLankan Airlines (UL, Colombo… Read More »
Tigerair Taiwan applies for stock exchange listing
Tigerair Taiwan (IT, Taipei Taoyuan) has applied to the Taiwan Stock Exchange to list its shares on the main board… Read More »
US carriers in uproar over Icelandair US-Cuba charter plans
Icelandair (FI, Reykjavik Keflavik) has applied to the US Department of Transportation (DOT) for authority to operate 170 round-trip charter… Read More »
Pakistan’s AirSial secures int’l traffic rights
AirSial (PF, Karachi Int’l) launched its first international charter passenger flight from Lahore Int’l, Pakistan to Dubai Int’l in the… Read More »
Air Serbia plots turboprop fleet renewal in 2022
Air Serbia (JU, Belgrade) is planning to resume its turboprop fleet renewal programme in 2022 but remains ready to adapt… Read More »
Argentina to bring back fare bands for domestic flights
The Argentine government has declared that within 180 days it will set maximum fare prices and a system of fare… Read More »
India’s SpiceXpress eyes electric fleet by 2024
SpiceXpress – the cargo division currently being spun off by parent SpiceJet (SG, Delhi Int’l) – has confirmed it is… Read More »
AirAsia India pays all debts to airport operator
AirAsia India (I5, Bangalore Int’l) has paid its debts for air navigation, landing and parking fees, and other tariffs to… Read More »
Qantas returns A380 to service ahead of schedule
Qantas (QF, Sydney Kingsford Smith) will fast-track the return of its A380-800 service from January 11 to relieve B787-9 pilots… Read More »
Why isn’t vaccination proof required for domestic flights?
To go into restaurants, visit gyms, go on a cruise or see the new “Spider-Man” movie in theaters, you need… Read More »
Seven out of 10 international flights in or out of the UK were cancelled in 2021
Busiest route was London Heathrow to New York JFK, despite the US travel ban that ended only in November Seven… Read More »
UAE regulator probes Emirates 777-300ER flight ‘incident’ in Dubai
Authorities in the United Arab Emirates are probing what Emirates described as “technical incident” shortly after one of its aircraft… Read More »