eVTOL start-up Joby Aviation secures UK licence
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Air Arabia Maroc wet-leases another A320
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SATA Air Acores deploys short-term ATR72 ACMI capacity
SATA Air Acores (SP, Ponta Delgada) has announced it is deploying an ATR72-500 from Spain's Swiftair (WT, Madrid Barajas) under a short-term ACMI contract to handle inter-island flights in the Azores as one of its DHC-8-Q400s remains in maintenance. The Grupo SATA subsidiary said in a statement that the Swiftair aircraft will be deployed for [...]
Delta Air Lines to sue CloudStrike, passengers sue Delta
Delta Air Lines (DL, Atlanta Hartsfield Jackson) will pursue legal claims of at least USD500 million against CrowdStrike after a July 19 content configuration update went awry, resulting in a systems crash and IT systems worldwide shutting down, including at Delta, which says it experienced around 7,000 flight cancellations over five days because of it. [...]
Slovakia's AirExplore secures US permit after nine years
AirExplore (ED, Bratislava) has been granted a tentative and conditional US Foreign Air Carrier Permit (FACP) and an exemption nearly nine years after the airline filed its application in October 2015. The permit will be restricted until Slovakia obtains an FAA IASA Category 1 assessment. Until the country is audited by the FAA, AirExplore will [...]
Lithuania's Avion Express to resume A319 operations
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Nigeria's Arik Air gets greenlight to resume flights
The Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority has confirmed that Arik Air (W3, Lagos) has been given the green light to restart domestic flights, ending the airline's weeklong grounding. "This is confirmed. Arik is good to go," the NCAA's public affairs and consumer protection director, Michael Achimugu, confirmed to ch-aviation. He said this followed a resolution reached [...]
Mali regime considers sub-regional airline – report
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Spain’s LEVEL seeking separate AOCs, says IAG
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Latvia's airBaltic secures added wet-leased A320 capacity
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