Brazil’s Azul exploring potential offer to buy GOL – report
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Mexico’s Volaris shrugs off ACMI despite P&W impact
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Shareholders to shore up Italy's Aerolinee Siciliane
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KLM agrees to publish Schiphol flight cuts impact report
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines (KL, Amsterdam Schiphol) has agreed that a report on flight cuts at Schiphol it had commissioned alongside Royal Schiphol Group in 2023 be published by the Netherlands' Ministry of Infrastructure & Water Management, the airline confirmed in a press release after initially halting its publication. The flag carrier assented to the [...]
Air France-KLM seeks larger stake in SAS
Air France-KLM is in advanced talks to increase its ownership of SAS Scandinavian Airlines (SK, Copenhagen Kastrup) and gain a majority stake in the airline, the Franco-Dutch group’s CEO Benjamin Smith confirmed during an investors' call. “We're very, very happy with how things worked out with SAS, with our 19% stake, with the exit of [...]
Ryanair cuts Summer 2024 schedule due to MAX delays
Ryanair (FR, Dublin International) has revealed it now expects to take only forty B737-8-200s before June 2024 instead of the originally planned 57, which will force it to trim its summer schedule. "Ryanair's current Summer 2024 season schedule was based on receiving a minimum of fifty B737 aircraft, and Ryanair will now have to reduce [...]
Spain’s Aura Airlines reaches debt agreement
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Romania's Hello Jets eyes US operations
Hello Jets (H3, Bucharest Henri Coanda) has applied for a US Foreign Air Carrier Permit (FACP) and an exemption to begin scheduled and charter operations covering passengers, cargo, and mail to and from the United States. The Romanian ACMI/charter carrier did not disclose any details of its planned US operations and did not respond to [...]
Iraq's Fly Baghdad issues B737NG lease RFP
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United Airlines set to be 80 MAX 10s short in 2024
United Airlines (UA, Chicago O'Hare) has revealed that its recent decision to remove the B737-10 from its internal fleet plan will result in 80 fewer aircraft delivering in 2024 than previously expected. According to the carrier's annual report, Boeing was contractually due to deliver eighty MAX 10s in 2024, a further 71 in 2025, and [...]