Denmark's Sunclass Airlines ends A330-200 operations
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Japan's NCA Nippon Cargo Airlines mulls next-gen widebodies
The president and CEO of NCA - Nippon Cargo Airlines (KZ, Tokyo Narita) has told a conference in Singapore that the carrier is looking at acquiring new-generation freighters. “We’re studying them seriously,” Hiroyuki Homma was quoted by Cargo Facts. According to ch-aviation fleets data, NCA currently operates eight B747-8Fs, all of which are owned by [...]
Korea's t'way Air sees top shareholder generational change
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China Southern Airlines orders 100 C919s
China Southern Airlines (CZ, Guangzhou) has ordered 100 incremental C919s from COMAC (Shanghai Pudong), with deliveries scheduled to begin this year and run until 2031. The carrier is the last of China's three big state-owned airlines to commit to the same number of locally built narrowbodies. The carrier revealed in a stock market filing that [...]
Kampala strikes Boeing deal for Uganda Airlines – report
The Ugandan government may have struck a deal with Boeing for the purchase of four aircraft for Uganda Airlines (UR, Entebbe), stirring speculation of a strategic move against rival Airbus. While there has been no official confirmation, sources "familiar with the development" told the Kampala-based news site 256 Business News that Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni [...]
Norwegian CAA presses Denmark's DAT over labour concerns
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UK’s easyJet to acquire SR Technics MRO facility in Malta
easyJet (London Luton) is seeking approval for the acquisition of the SR Technics maintenance facility at Malta International, the airline confirmed to ch-aviation. “easyJet has agreed to acquire the SR Technics maintenance facility based in Malta, subject to regulatory approval. The six-bay aircraft maintenance facility in Malta has undertaken heavy maintenance for the easyJet fleet [...]
SAS eyes growth of its in-house regional jet fleet
SAS Scandinavian Airlines (SK, Copenhagen Kastrup) sees the potential to "substantially grow" its fleet of E195s operated through the SAS Link subsidiary and is now evaluating how to combine this growth with the wet-leased smaller regional fleet, Vice-President (Network) Henrik Winell said during the recent Routes Europe conference, as reported by Aviation Week. "We are [...]
EU approves €95.3mn Romanian state aid to TAROM
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Spain's Air Nostrum moves all ACMI contracts to CityJet
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