Aurigny Air Services (GR, Guernsey) has wet-leased an ATR72-500 from Swiftair (WT, Madrid Barajas) to compensate for the ongoing delays in the delivery of its fifth in-house, dry-leased ATR72-600. EC-KKQ (msn 763) was ferried from Madrid Barajas to Guernsey on August 27 and operated its first revenue flight to Nottingham East Midlands on the same [...]
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SAS Scandinavian Airlines (SK, Copenhagen Kastrup) has announced it has completed its restructuring proceedings and emerged from both Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the United States and Swedish company reorganisation with an improved capital structure following an exit financing transaction of USD1.2 billion from its new owner consortium. The company said in a statement on [...]
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Ethiopian Airlines (ET, Addis Ababa International) has been forced to lease four B737 MAX aircraft this fiscal year to bridge a capacity gap created by delivery delays from Boeing of B737-8s initially expected in April 2024, according to CEO Mesfin Tasew Bekele. Speaking on Bloomberg TV on August 27, he said the leased planes would [...]
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Air Vanuatu (NF, Port Vila) is resuming limited domestic operations using its ATR72-600 and two DHC-6-300s almost four months after the state-owned airline suspended all flights and called in the liquidators. The ATR, YJ-AV73 (msn 1358), has recommenced flights between Port Vila and Tanna, while the two Twin Otters, YJ-RV10 (msn 679) and YJ-RV14 (msn [...]
The government of Trinidad and Tobago has approved Caribbean Airlines (BW, Port of Spain) to acquire new aircraft, which would be used on routes to South America, the dual-island nation’s energy minister Stuart Young has said. Speaking at the CAPA Airline Leader Summit Latin America & Caribbean last week, Young said the carrier was "willing [...]