Italy and Lufthansa Group have resolved a last-minute impasse that had threatened to jeopardise the partial sale of ITA Airways (AZ, Rome Fiumicino), with the Ministry of Economy and Finance (MEF) confirming that a final package of remedies submitted to Brussels is in line with the original agreement from July 3, 2023. In a short [...]
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CJet Aviation has opened a Fixed Base Operation at Trois-Rivières, Québec province, as it prepares to launch charter operations with its recently inducted Piaggio Avanti. P.180 C-GCVU (msn 1151) was ferried from St. Petersburg/Clearwater via Harrisburg International to Trois-Rivières on August 16, 2024, still under its previous US registration, N159KH. It was operated privately in [...]
Clay Lacy Aviation (CLY, Van Nuys) has obtained a lease at Sun Valley airport, Idaho to build a new Fixed Base Operation. The new FBO will be built on a 10-acre (40,500-square-metre) plot with construction to begin once the design is finalised and permits secured. No specific date for the opening was given. The new [...]
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Xejet (4U, Lagos) is wet-leasing an E190 from Windrose Airlines (7W, Kyiv Boryspil) for the introduction of a premium economy product between Lagos and Abuja, CEO Emmanuel Iza has confirmed to ch-aviation. He said the ACMI contract with the Ukrainian carrier will run for three months initially. ADS-B data shows that UR-EMA (msn 19000494) was [...]
The European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) has declined to comment on a report that it flagged serious safety concerns at Air Arabia Maroc (3O, Casablanca Mohamed V) regarding scheduling practices that allegedly compromise fatigue management guidelines. "EASA does not comment in any way on the outcomes of our Third Country Operators (TCO) decisions or [...]