The US Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has added an Il-76TD operated by Iran's Pouya Air Lines (PYA, Tehran Mehrabad) to its list of sanctioned aircraft. Flightradar24 ADS-B data shows that EP-PUS (msn 1023409321) has operated multiple flights between Tehran Mehrabad and Moscow Vnukovo in recent months. The US alleges that Pouya Air Lines [...]
The competition to buy the cargo business of Asiana Airlines (OZ, Seoul Incheon) has become a three-horse race with Jeju Air (7C, Jeju) not participating in the second round of bidding this past week. Sale adviser UBS had set an April 25 deadline for second-round bidding with Eastar Jet, Air Incheon, and Air Premia now [...]
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Air China (CA, Beijing Capital) has placed a firm order with COMAC for 100 extended range C919s with deliveries scheduled to begin this year. The carrier said in a stock market filing that the order was signed on April 26, 2024, and approved by the airline's board of directors the day after. Deliveries are scheduled [...]
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Cubana (CU, Havana International) has cancelled its flights to Argentina following an “abrupt refusal of aviation fuel suppliers” to provide services to the carrier, it announced. The state-owned airline said it had been forced to scrap flights CU360 between Havana International and Buenos Aires Ministro Pistarini and CU361 from Buenos Aires to Cayo Coco, planned [...]
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The United States Department of Justice (DOJ) has charged ten defendants and arrested one with conspiring to violate the International Economic Emergency Powers Act for their roles in a scheme to evade sanctions imposed on PDVSA - Petróleos de Venezuela by obtaining US aircraft parts. According to a DOJ statement dated April 22, after learning [...]
Source: ch aviation Read more: Aerolíneas Argentinas CEO warns “difficult decisions” ahead