Korea's Air Incheon secures backing to buy Asiana cargo arm
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US airlines, unions ask Washington to pause added China ops
Trade group Airlines for America and unions the Air Line Pilots Association, the Allied Pilots Association, and the Association of Flight Attendants have sent a letter to Antony Blinken, US Secretary of State, urging him to pause additional passenger flights between the United States and China until US workers and businesses are granted equality of [...]
LATAM looking to refinance senior secured notes – CEO
LATAM Airlines Group is analysing the possibility of refinancing two sets of dollar bonds due in 2027 and 2029 as soon as they become redeemable in October 2024, chief executive Roberto Alvo has told Bloomberg News. This prospect, alongside the option of relisting its shares on the New York Stock Exchange, is part of the [...]
United Airlines reduces expected FY24 deliveries
United Airlines (UA, Chicago O'Hare) announced that due to the “significant production capacity constraints on Boeing”, it anticipates only 61 narrowbody and five widebody aircraft to be delivered in 2024, down from the original 191 contracted deliveries and the 109 (both narrow- and widebody) that were expected at the beginning of the year. The carrier [...]
George J. Priester Aviation entities to consolidate branding
Priester Aviation (PWA, Chicago Executive) and sibling Part 135 carriers Mayo Aviation (Denver Centennial) and Hill Private Aviation are to adopt the name of their parent entity, George J. Priester Aviation, which the current chairman and CEO says carries "historical weight." The company began business in 1945 as a flight training school and over time [...]
Air Serbia wet leases E190, to add E195s by early 3Q24
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Nairobi pledges ongoing financial support to Kenya Airways
The government of Kenya has pledged ongoing financial support to Kenya Airways (KQ, Nairobi Jomo Kenyatta) to implement its "Plan 2028" five-year recovery programme and enable it to meet its obligations for at least another year after the approval of its annual financial statements for the year ending December 31, 2023. Consequently, the directors have [...]
Bangladesh's US-Bangla Airlines to wet-lease two B737s
US-Bangla Airlines (BS, Dhaka) has signed a one-year ACMI contract with Ukraine's SkyUp Airlines (PQ, Kyiv Boryspil) covering two B737-800s. UR-SQB (msn 40153) was ferried from Hurghada to Dhaka on April 5, 2024, and began operating for the Bangladeshi carrier on April 7, Flightradar24 ADS-B data shows. The aircraft is currently deployed on routes to [...]
Indonesia's Citilink, Pelita to consummate merger by 4Q24
A merger between state-owned airlines Citilink (QG, Jakarta Soekarno-Hatta) and Pelita Air (IP, Jakarta Soekarno-Hatta) could be completed by October 2024, according to the CEO of Garuda Indonesia (GA, Jakarta Soekarno-Hatta). Irfan Setiaputra told the Tempo news outlet that the target date coincided with the end of the current government's term. "This is also appropriate [...]
Singapore's Scoot takes delivery of its first E190-E2
Scoot (TR, Singapore Changi) took delivery of its first E190-E2 at a handover ceremony on April 11, 2024, at the Embraer facility at São José dos Campos Professor Urbano Ernesto Stumpf Airport. The aircraft is presently registered as PR-EEW (msn 19020127) and is the first of nine regional jets the Singapore Airlines Group subsidiary expects [...]