Australia’s FlyPelican consolidates Newcastle base
FlyPelican (FP, Newcastle Williamtown) is consolidating its operations at its base at Newcastle Williamtown on the east coast of Australia,… Read More »
Kenya Airways to downsize fleet
Kenya Airways is planning to downsize its fleet to 30 aircraft, a move that may see more staff lay-offs as… Read More »
Australia’s Rex gears up for trunk route competition
Rex – Regional Express (ZL, Wagga Wagga) plans to gear up to thirty B737-800s over the next five to seven… Read More »
AirAsia X announces more modest $28mn rights issue
AirAsia X has opted to downsize its planned rights issue and will now seek to raise MYR116 million ringgit (USD27.75… Read More »
Pratt & Whitney awarded DoE project to develop hydrogen propulsion technology
Pratt & Whitney has been selected by the US Department of Energy (DoE) to develop novel, high-efficiency hydrogen-fuelled propulsion technology… Read More »
Israel reopens borders to all tourists
Israel announced on Sunday Feb. 20 that it will allow unvaccinated tourists to enter the country next month. Beginning on… Read More »
Textron Aviation delivers 8,000th Cessna Citation
Textron Aviation (NYSE: TXT) has delivered its 8,000 Cessna Citation Jet, 50 years after the OEM began manufacturing the model… Read More »
FACC develops composite parts for Rolls-Royce Pearl 10X engine
Aerospace company FACC has been commissioned by Rolls-Royce with the development and manufacture of composite components for the new Pearl… Read More »
The most valuable airline and hotel rewards programs
Ever wonder if you’ve been loyal to the right airline, hotel or other travel provider all this time? Are those… Read More »
New action plan for Cyprus airports in place
Between February 21 and 28, which will be a transitional period, all passengers arriving in the Larnaca and Paphos airports… Read More »
Dublin Airport – February Update
Our February update takes a look at the most recent January traffic figures as well as a breakdown of the… Read More »
Not all European low cost airline fleets are equal
The challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic have been met in different ways by different airlines in Europe. Broadly speaking,… Read More »
Liverpool Airport’s expansion master plan to be reviewed on environmental grounds
Liverpool Airport never really fulfilled its potential after being overlooked as the English northwest region’s primary international gateway 60 years… Read More »
Iberia’s president Sanchez-Prieto: Madrid’s Barajas Airport could be “left behind”
Spain exists in a tourist bubble, being one of the most visited countries on earth. But much of that tourism… Read More »
First Tourists in Two Years Land in Australia
The first international visitors in two years arrived in Australia at 6:20 a.m. local time Monday, heralding a return to… Read More »
Cape Verde Prime Minister outlines priorities for air transport; some realistic, others not so much
Before the coronavirus pandemic – which stopped it dead in its tracks – Cape Verde, the Atlantic Ocean archipelago which… Read More »
New York City Tourism Hurt by Omicron
The surge of the COVID-19 Omicron variant late last year and into January of this year did enough to prevent… Read More »
Major Cruise Lines Continue to Drop Mask Mandates
As the vast majority of cruise lines met Friday’s deadline to opt into the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s… Read More »
Norwegian muscles in on Danish domestic market
Norwegian (DY, Oslo Gardermoen) will launch a Danish domestic seasonal route between Copenhagen Kastrup and Rønne on the island of… Read More »
Colombia’s Ultra Air secures AOC and preps for launch
Ultra Air (Medellín José Maria Córdova) will commence flight operations on February 23, having secured its air operator’s certificate (AOC)… Read More »
Air Canada orders A220s and adds more 787-9s
Air Canada has reordered twelve A220-300s it previously cancelled and will take delivery of the jets in 2024-2025, it said… Read More »
Romania’s Rom Cargo Airlines plans US flights
Rom Cargo Airlines (NJ) is planning to expand its network to the United States, an application to the US Department… Read More »
Norwegian mulls Airbus order amid Boeing litigation
Norwegian (DY, Oslo Gardermoen) executives have been meeting with Airbus (AIB, Toulouse Blagnac) as the all-Boeing carrier considers placing an… Read More »
Kuwait Airways revises Airbus order and adds A330-900s, A321LRs
Kuwait Airways has concluded an agreement with Airbus to restructure its outstanding order book. Chairman Ali Al-Dakhan told a press… Read More »
Hong Kong’s Greater Bay Airlines granted an operating licence
The Hong Kong Air Transport Licensing Authority (ATLA) has awarded an operating licence (OL) to Greater Bay Airlines (HGB, Hong… Read More »
Iceland’s Niceair to launch with a chartered A319 in Q2
Niceair (Akureyri) plans to begin scheduled operations as a virtual carrier on June 2, 2022, amid hopes that tourism demand… Read More »