The Australian government has announced "demand management" reforms targeting "slot-hoarding" at Sydney Kingsford Smith but has declined to change existing curfew and daily traffic caps. In a February 21 statement, Transport Minister Catherine King said the changes at the country's busiest airport will better align it with contemporary international standards. Currently, Sydney is restricted to [...]
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Breeze Airways (MX, Salt Lake City) has converted a further ten options for A220-300s, increasing the total orderbook for the type directly from Airbus Canada to 90 units. By the end of 2024, the airline plans to operate all of its scheduled routes with the A220s. "Breeze's business model is to bring air service to [...]
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Ryanair (FR, Dublin International) has announced it will move three of its aircraft, 16 new routes and 200 jobs to southern Italy amid a row with the Irish government over a traffic cap at Dublin International that limits the number of passengers at the airport to 32 million annually. “Ryanair had hoped to base more [...]
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Starlux Airlines (JX, Taipei Taoyuan) signed a purchase agreement to acquire three A330-900Ns and five A350Fs, its first freighters, at the Singapore Air Show on February 21. Starlux Chairman Chang Kuo-wei, Airbus CEO Christian Scherer, EVP Sales Commercial Aircraft Benoit de Saint-Exupery, Rolls-Royce Civil Aerospace CEO Ewan McDonald, and Starlux CEO Glenn Chai were all [...]