Taxi union fails in bid for South Africa’s Mango
The administrator of Mango Airlines (JE, Johannesburg O.R. Tambo) has declined to comment on reports that South Africa’s national taxi… Read More »
India’s Alliance Air secures two ATR42s for Himalaya ops
Alliance Air (India) (9I, Mumbai Int’l) has secured two ATR42-600s on dry-lease from TrueNoord following a tender floated in November… Read More »
Ex-partner spurns $80mn settlement offer of India’s SpiceJet
Media mogul Kalanithi Maran and his conglomerate Sun Group have rejected a INR6 billion rupee (USD80 million) one-time settlement offer… Read More »
India’s flybig eyes ATR72-600s; Dash 8 wet-lease
flybig (S9, Indore) is to induct two ATR72-600s by March-end and is also planning to wet-lease a DHC-8-Q400 soon, an… Read More »
India’s Jet Airways secures $6.6mn loan to finance restart
Jet Airways (JAI, Mumbai Int’l) has secured a INR500 million rupee (USD6.6 million) unsecured inter-corporate deposit from Orion IT, a… Read More »
Delhi to sell Air India groundhandler Alliance Air
India’s central government will attempt to privatise the groundhandling arm of Air India (AI, Mumbai Int’l) that remains in state… Read More »
Finnair to keep Asia focus, as EC approves €49mn aid
Finnair (AY, Helsinki Vantaa) will not be deviating from its Asia-accented strategy, but until key markets like Japan, South Korea,… Read More »
Uzbekistan Airways takes delivery of first A321neo(LR)
Uzbekistan Airways (HY, Tashkent Islam Karimov) has taken delivery of its first A321-200NX(LR) with UK32101 (msn 10607) having been ferried… Read More »
Malaysia’s Capital A plans separate listing for AirAsia
The aviation businesses that Capital A (formerly AirAsia Group) owns will ultimately be managed independently from the parent and listed… Read More »
AirAsia to lease at least 100 Vertical Aerospace VX4 eVTOL aircraft
AirAsia Aviation Group will take at least 100 Vertical Aerospace VX4 electric vertical take off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft from… Read More »
Qantas, Alliance Airlines set up E190 base in Darwin
Qantas (QF, Sydney Kingsford Smith) is setting up a new E190 jet base at Darwin to service key QantasLink routes… Read More »
Corendon Dutch Airlines is introducing in-seat snacks and duty-free ordering
Corendon Dutch Airlines, the Amsterdam-based charter airline of the Corendon Airlines Group, has announced the introduction of new technology with… Read More »
KC-46 the right aircraft for KC-Y new U.S. tanker needs
Boeing stands ready to pitch the KC-46 should the US government hold a competition for a possible acquisition of up… Read More »
ST Engineering to convert world’s first 757 firefighting tanker
ST Engineering is to create the world’s first Boeing 757 firefighting aircraft through the conversion of a passenger jet, with… Read More »
Western Global Airlines orders two Boeing 777 Freighters
Boeing and Western Global Airlines announced on Feb. 16 a firm order for two 777-200LRF Freighters, the first new-production freighters… Read More »
FAA will perform pre-delivery inspections on new Boeing 787s
Federal safety regulators say they will retain power to approve Boeing 787 airliners for flight rather than return that authority… Read More »
Etihad Airways orders seven Airbus A350F freighters
Etihad Airways has signed a Letter of Intent (LoI) for seven Airbus A350F freighters to add to its existing fleet… Read More »
Singapore Airlines orders seven A350F freighter jets to replace its 747-400F fleet
Singapore Airlines signed a Letter of Intent (LOI) with Airbus in December 2021 to purchase seven of the recently launched… Read More »
SmartLynx Airlines orders six Airbus A321-200P2F passenger-to-freighters jets
Latvia’s SmartLynx Airlines orders six Airbus A321 passenger-to-freighters (P2F) from conversion firm EEFW, a European ACMI charter and cargo company… Read More »
Australian low-cost Bonza reveals route map and airport bases
Australian independent low-cost carrier Bonza has revealed its route map and airport bases and announced Sunshine Coast Airport as its… Read More »
World Travel to Offer Deem’s Etta Platform
Travel management company World Travel is partnering to make Deem’s Etta corporate travel booking and management platform available to its… Read More »
Hilton: Resilient SME Business Travel Lifts Q4
Despite headwinds from the Covid-19 omicron variant that impeded corporate travel momentum late in the period, Hilton Worldwide’s fourth-quarter business… Read More »