Philippine Airlines (PR, Manila Ninoy Aquino International) will wet-lease two A330-200s from Wamos Air (EB, Madrid Barajas) to operate on the Manila-Sydney Kingsford Smith and Manila-Melbourne Tullamarine city pairs for five months, effective June 1, 2024. The carrier said the deal would help ensure effective fleet management and operational resilience during the upcoming peak travel [...]
Iberia (IB, Madrid Barajas) will be the global launch operator of the A321-200NY(XLR), the airline confirmed to ch-aviation following parent IAG International Airlines Group’s decision to withdraw the oppurtunity from sister carrier Aer Lingus (EI, Dublin International). While Iberia does not yet have a projected delivery date, once it does, it will deploy the long-haul [...]
Saudia Group has placed an order with Airbus (AIB, Toulouse Blagnac) for a total of 105 A320/A321neo to be split between its Saudia (SV, Jeddah International) and flyadeal (F3, Jeddah International) carriers. In terms of the breakdown, Saudia will receive fifty-four A321neo while flyadeal will benefit from thirty-nine A321neo and twelve A320neo. "The new aircraft [...]
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Berniq Airways (NB, Benghazi) says it has signed an agreement with Airbus (AIB, Toulouse Blagnac) covering six new-build A320-200Ns and A321-200Ns. According to the Libyan carrier, the ceremony took place in Toulouse last week. The exact split between the two types was not revealed, nor were delivery dates. Founded in 2018 and operational since 2021, [...]
Air Arabia (G9, Sharjah) has turned to lessors in order to continue its fleet growth as the first deliveries of its 120 aircraft on order directly from Airbus have slipped from the fourth quarter of 2024 to the first half of 2025, CEO Adel Abdullah Ali told Dubai's Gulf News. "To grow the business, we [...]
Frustrated by an almost two-year delay, Malta-based Challenge Group - the winning bidder for three parked B777-300ERs of India's long-grounded Jet Airways (JAI, Mumbai International) - has threatened to walk away from the deal pending the outcome of a last-ditch appeal before the country's National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT). The NCLT's monitoring committee is due [...]
A Mumbai-based company, FA Airlines, is poised to acquire flybig (FLG, Indore), with India's Economic Times reporting that the two partners had inked a provisional merger agreement. The deal would see flybig's now three-strong fleet expand to around 20 aircraft. Indian company records show FA Airlines Private Limited was incorporated in June 2022 with a [...]
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