Charter bizav company Bimava Taxi Aéreo Ltda, dba Dream Fly Taxi Aéreo (São Paulo Campo de Marte), operator of E110, PT-OCW (msn 110273), has been caught up in a drug trafficking scandal in which eight individuals were arrested for using private jets to smuggle cocaine across the Americas, Europe, and Africa. The São Paulo civil [...]
airBaltic (BT, Riga) has firmed up options for ten incremental A220-300s, increasing its total commitment for the type to 90. "Over the years, this aircraft type has proven its operational capabilities and value - it has been the backbone of our operations and has played an integral role in the international success story of airBaltic," [...]
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Airlink (South Africa) (4Z, Johannesburg O.R. Tambo) has apologised to the Civil Aviation Authority of Botswana (CAAB) for prematurely announcing flights between Cape Town International and Gaborone after the regulator fined the South African carrier for advertising flights before they were authorised. The size of the fine was not disclosed. Airlink said it immediately withdrew [...]
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Air Peace (P4, Lagos) will damp-lease four B737-800s from AirExplore (ED, Bratislava) for the Northern Winter 2024/2025 season. The Slovak airline, a subsidiary of Avia Solutions Group (ASG), will provide the pilots, while the cabin crew will be Air Peace's. The aircraft will be deployed domestically within Nigeria out of Lagos. The ch-aviation fleets module [...]
Ethiopian Airlines (ET, Addis Ababa International) has signed a technical advisory and consultancy contract with an international multidisciplinary consulting firm to design a new "mega airport" that will handle 110 million passengers annually, more than four times Addis Ababa International's current capacity. The project will reportedly cost USD6 billion over five years. Ethiopia News Agency [...]
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PIA - Pakistan International Airlines (PK, Islamabad International) has lost PKR21.8 billion Pakistani rupees (USD78.2 million) due to the prolonged maintenance of some of its aircraft over more than ten years, an Auditor General's report said. The audit, widely reported in the Pakistani media but not available online, said the majority state-owned carrier was aware [...]