Maersk Air Cargo (DJ, Billund) has taken delivery of the first its two B777-200Fs on order from Boeing. OY-MAC (msn 67867) was handed over to the cargo carrier on July 11, 2024, and ferried from Everett via Moses Lake, Greenville/Spartanburg International, and Bangor International to Billund on July 11-13. Maersk Air Cargo owns the freighter [...]
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The Nigerian federal government plans to purchase a foreclosed A330 from an unnamed German bank for use as a new presidential jet, reports the Premium Times newspaper. The government has reportedly offered around USD100 million for the widebody, valued at USD600 million due to its VIP configuration. According to Premium Times, the aircraft was repossessed [...]
West Atlantic (United Kingdom) (NPT, Nottingham East Midlands) will retire two B737-300(F)s and three B737-400(SF)s after the carrier's largest British customer, Royal Mail, announced plans to cut its postal flight network significantly. The carrier hinted at adding A321s as it moves forward. The airline's spokesperson told The Loadstar that it will have "a smaller UK [...]
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Charter flights could make up as much as half of the business next winter for Norse Atlantic (United Kingdom) (Z0, London Gatwick) as its low-cost long-haul transatlantic parent Norse Atlantic Airways (N0, Oslo Gardermoen) adapts its company-wide business model to maximise the use of its aircraft. In an interview with the UK's Travel Weekly, founder [...]
Air France-KLM was the beneficiary of separate French and Dutch state aid during the Covid-19 pandemic, and that aid to the group was “necessary, appropriate, and proportionate to remedy a serious disturbance” in the economies of France and the Netherlands, the European Commission said in a statement - circumventing two General Court decisions that annulled [...]