Sirio (SIO, Milan Linate) is looking to expand internationally and attract more aircraft owners beyond its traditional customer base among the Italian business community, chief executive Tom Engelhard told ch-aviation on the sidelines of the EBACE conference in Geneva. The company is also looking for more charter-friendly aircraft to increase synergies with sister operator Flexjet. [...]
Prosecutors in Estonia are looking into the activities of several former senior executives at Nordica (ND, Tallinn Lennart Meri) to determine whether there was any criminal activity related to the flag carrier’s dire finances, the business newspaper Ärileht reported. Pretrial proceedings are currently underway. The criminal proceedings were launched on February 26, an official at [...]
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American Airlines Group has asked a federal appeals court to overturn a decision invalidating its Northeast Alliance (NEA) with JetBlue Airways (B6, New York JFK), arguing the current ruling could prevent the company from entering into future joint ventures. According to Gregory Garre, a lawyer for American Airlines (AA, Dallas/Fort Worth), the decision to invalidate [...]
The United States Department of Justice has announced that Lars Winkelbauer, former executive vice president and chief operating officer at Polar Air Cargo (PO, New York JFK), has been sentenced to four years imprisonment for his part in a decade-long scheme to defraud the airline of more than USD32 million in revenue. The former executive [...]
The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) will allow United Airlines (UA, Chicago O'Hare) to proceed with acquiring new aircraft despite an ongoing safety review of the airline's practices, according to administrator Mike Whitaker. Speaking at a news conference on May 30, he said that while the agency would continue to monitor United's operations closely, it [...]
Qatar Airways (QR, Doha Hamad International) is in discussions with Airbus and Boeing for a major widebody order composed of A350 and B777X aircraft, the company’s chief executive, Badr Mohammed Al Meer, has confirmed. The Middle Eastern carrier could order up to 200 jets and the decision could be announced during the Farnborough Air Show, [...]