Paris moots staggering Air Austral debt repayments – report
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Lufthansa, Brussels ponder new ITA merger concessions
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Austria's Skyside adds first Falcon 2000LX
Skyside (SKV, Vienna) has taken delivery of its first Dassault Aviation Falcon 2000LX. OE-HHS (msn 224) was ferried from Boise via Reykjavik Keflavik and Vienna to Hannover on May 16-18, 2024. It will undergo cabin outfitting at the German airport before entering into service. The 2005 vintage large business jet joins Skyside's existing in-house fleet [...]
Ryanair maintains faith in first MAX 10 arriving in 1H27
Ryanair Holdings remains confident that it will receive its first B737-10 on schedule in the first half of 2027, even as delays in B737-8-200 deliveries have forced it to trim capacity for this year. "We understand that the B737-7 should hopefully be certified, if not at the back of calendar 2024 then into early 2025. [...]
Azerbaijan’s Silk Way disposes of PW-powered B747 freighters
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Qazaq Air set to be sold to Viet Nam's Sovico Group
Vietnamese conglomerate Sovico Group, a major shareholder and founder of VietJetAir (VJ, Hanoi Noi Bai International), is set to take control of Qazaq Air (IQ, Astana Nursultan Nazarbayev), a statement issued following a meeting between Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev and the head of Sovico Group, Nguyen Thanh Hung, said. The statement said a binding agreement [...]
US's Tavaero Jet Charter adds first Falcon 900
Tavaero Jet Charter (Houston Hobby) has taken delivery of its first Dassault Aviation business jet, namely a Falcon 900, and its first Cessna Citation CJ3. The Falcon 900, N100UP (msn 44), a 36.4-year-old aircraft, began operating for Tavaero Jet Charter in late March 2024. It was most recently active on May 10, flying from Napa [...]
US's Global Air Charters, UAE's Mayfair Jets ink JV
Global Air Charters (GJE, Teterboro) and United Arab Emirates-based charter broker Mayfair Jets have signed a joint venture agreement including a block-hour, year-long commitment initially for a single aircraft from the American operator's fleet. The two companies began working on the JV in January 2024 taking around four months to implement. It includes an option [...]
Colombian army hunts ATR42s for air assault division
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Nigeria’s ValueJet inducts first CRJ700
Privately-owned Nigerian carrier ValueJet (VK, Lagos) is to induct its first CRJ700 on an open-ended lease from Regional One, an airline spokesman confirmed to ch-aviation. He said the dual-cabin aircraft was en route to Lagos on May 22 from Ljubljana, Slovenia. According to ch-aviation fleets data, the 65-seater, 20.43-year-old CRJ700 Srs 701 msn 10130 will [...]