A New York court has sentenced a former employee and a supplier of JetBlue Airways to 20 and 40 months imprisonment, respectively, for defrauding the airline of about USD10 million by diverting millions of dollars from airline part contracts. Julien Levy and Keily Nunez were sentenced on May 3 at the US District Court for [...]
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Air Vanuatu (NF, Port Vila) has grounded its aircraft, cancelled flights, and axed its board after it asked Ernst & Young to advise on whether it should file for voluntary administration. The chairman of the now defunct board, Alain Lew, told Port Vila's Daily Post that the government approached the administrators on May 6. Several [...]
The European Commission has postponed until July 4 the deadline by which it will review a "significantly improved offer of concessions" Lufthansa Group submitted on May 6 to quell Brussels' antitrust concerns about its bid for a 41% stake in Italy's state-owned ITA Airways (AZ, Rome Fiumicino). This was confirmed to ch-aviation by a Lufthansa [...]
A Guam court has sentenced a former Korean Air (KE, Seoul Incheon) office manager to 41 months imprisonment for bank fraud and money laundering offences. Sung Peel Hwang, also known as Don Sung Peel Hwang, was sentenced at the US District Court of Guam on May 7 for diverting funds to his personal accounts. The [...]
Tonga's King Tupou VI has criticised his government's lack of transparency surrounding Lulutai Airlines (L8, Tongatapu) in a May 2 speech to mark the closing of the 2023-24 parliamentary session. The speech follows the Polynesian nation's auditor general recently calling out the government for failing to provide the required share certificates proving ownership, which he [...]
Kenya Airways (KQ, Nairobi Jomo Kenyatta) announced it would resume flights to Kinshasa N'Djili on May 8 after military intelligence in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) released two of its employees who had been detained for a couple of weeks, ostensibly over missing customs documents. "Kenya Airways confirms that military authorities have unconditionally released [...]
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