Air Macau revisits widebody aircraft plans
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American Samoa's Pago Wings sees debut slip into 2024
Pago Wings has begun conducting test flights around the Samoan archipelago to assess the Tecnam P2012's payload capabilities, according to local news outlets. Using N1202P (msn 056/US), Pago Wings operated flights between Pago Pago and Ofu on January 2 and 3, and between the capital and Fitiuta on January 4. The American Samoan start-up is [...]
Air Mauritius issues urgent widebody wet-lease RFP
Air Mauritius (MK, Mauritius) is attempting to wet-lease a widebody aircraft at short notice to plug a capacity gap caused by two of its aircraft unexpectedly going AOG. The airline issued a request for proposal (RFP) (reference No. PROC/020/24/GM) on January 12, 2024, and calls for prospective lessors to submit their bids to supply an [...]
GOL, avianca parent in talks with creditors – report
Abra Group, parent company of Colombia’s avianca airlines (AV, Bogotá) and Brazil’s GOL Linhas Aéreas Inteligentes (G3, Sao Paulo Congonhas), is set to meet with creditors and bondholders about its USD1.5 billion bonds as it looks to strike a comprehensive restructuring deal. As first reported by Bloomberg News, which cited unnamed sources close to the [...]
Delta Air Lines orders 20+20 A350-1000s
Delta Air Lines (DL, Atlanta Hartsfield Jackson) has ordered twenty A350-1000s from Airbus, with options for a further twenty of them, it announced in a statement on Friday, January 12. Deliveries are set to begin in 2026. The ch-aviation fleets advanced module shows that the carrier already operates twenty-eight A350-900s with a further six of [...]
American Airlines halts cash payments in Argentina
American Airlines (AA, Dallas/Fort Worth) has stopped accepting cash at its ticket sales centres in Argentina, effective December 28, 2023, it said in a statement. The South American country’s new government, under Javier Milei, weakened its currency, the Argentine peso, by over 50% in early December as part of radical measures to reboot the country's [...]
Top creditors of US's Aerotech file claims for $440mn
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Irelandia Aviation mulls new electric airline
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Lufthansa Cargo parks A321Fs over structural concerns
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LAM and Boeing disagree on Mozambican airline’s debt
Boeing (BOE, Washington National) is asking LAM - Linhas Aéreas de Moçambique (TM, Maputo) to pay USD4.5 million dollars in debt for allegedly missing payments on a parts supply contract, Portuguese agency Lusa reported after gaining insight into documentation. However, the carrier only admits to owing USD729,000 for late contract rents. The US company sent [...]