Legal action looms over cancelled Azores Airlines tender
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Spain's Swiftair wet-leases A321 freighter
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Danish oil, shipping barons set up new carrier
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GhanaAirlines stalls, AOC in limbo
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Austria's Skyemotion eyes US approval
Austrian jet charter and management company start-up Skyemotion (EMO, Altenrhein) plans to make its aircraft available to charter customers requesting services to/from the United States. A regulatory filing with the US Department of Transportation (SOT) reveals the subsidiary of Swiss-based Lions Air (Switzerland) (Zurich) has applied for exemption and a foreign air carrier permit to [...]
TAG Aviation moves its only Global Express between AOCs
TAG Aviation (Geneva) has moved its only Bombardier Global Express from TAG Aviation (United Kingdom) (VIP, Farnborough) to TAG Aviation (Malta) (TEU, Malta International), ch-aviation research has revealed. 9H-KDR (msn 9023) was deregistered from the Isle of Man register on April 4, 2024, and subsequently placed into the Maltese register. The 25.2-year-old aircraft can seat [...]
South Korea's Jeju Air to focus on fleet renewal – report
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Bonza's insolvency quagmire deepens as murky details surface
The administrators of insolvent Australian LCC Bonza (AB, Sunshine Coast) will hold the first creditor's meeting in Sydney on May 10, as details start to emerge of the airline's rocky state of affairs in the lead-up to its April 30 collapse. Administrator Hall Chadwick will hold the initial meeting to update the as yet unknown [...]
Qantas settles with ACCC, to pay $100mn penalty
Qantas (QF, Sydney Kingsford Smith) has sidestepped a messy courtroom showdown and agreed to pay around 86,000 customers remediation amounts ranging between AUD225 and AUD450 Australian dollars (USD149-298) plus a AUD100 million (USD66 million) penalty for selling tickets on flights it had already cancelled but not disclosed, or was preparing to cancel. It reached the [...]
US's National Airlines looks for B747s, mulls alternatives
National Airlines (N8, Orlando Sanford) is looking to source additional factory-built, nose-loading B747-400 freighters but is also evaluating alternatives due to the quadjet's scarcity, the cargo specialist's VP strategy and revenue optimisation, Nihal Wickrema, has told The Loadstar. "We want to add more factory-built freighters in the coming months. Unfortunately, there is limited availability of [...]