CareFlight has announced it will launch a permanent air ambulance base at Newcastle Williamtown airport with two aircraft, one King Air B200 turboprop and one Beechjet 400XT. The aircraft will operate both under contract with NSW Health and CareFlight’s own national and international medevac services. "Newcastle is an ideal geographic base for patient transport services [...]
American Airlines (AA, Dallas/Fort Worth) has asked the Supreme Court of the United States to review and overturn a First Circuit decision to block its Northeast Alliance (NEA) joint venture with JetBlue Airways (B6, New York JFK). The carrier argued that the lower court had wrongly condemned its partnership with JetBlue without marketwide evidence of [...]
Senator Edward J Markey has reintroduced the Fueling Alternative Transportation with a Carbon Aviation Tax (FATCAT) Act, legislation that would increase fuel taxes for private jet travel from USD22 cents to USD2 per gallon and remove existing fuel tax exemptions for logging or oil and gas exploration. The FATCAT Act was initially introduced to the [...]
Loganair (LM, Glasgow International) is set to open a new operating base, its tenth, at Southampton airport. It will launch in October 2025 with two ATR72-600s. The carrier will also launch a new route from Southampton to Manchester and increase capacity to Edinburgh by replacing the E145 regional jets with ATR72-600s. It will facilitate transfers [...]
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Class Aviation has reregistered its sole executive jet, a GIV-SP, in Mauritania, making it the only business jet on the country's register, ch-aviation research reveals. The 27.4-year-old Gulfstream Aerospace aircraft, 5T-PCL (msn 1322), was first active under its new registration on March 4, 2025, flying between Madrid Barajas - where it had been undergoing maintenance [...]
Jet2 (United Kingdom) (LS, Leeds/Bradford) plans to wet-lease in additional capacity for the IATA northern summer season after production delays at Airbus (AIB, Toulouse Blagnac) leave the carrier short of aircraft, it said. The airline expected to take delivery of 14 new owned and leased A321-200NX aircraft by the end of Summer 2025, upping its [...]
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A Filipino politician has asked the country's president and transport minister to intervene and halt the transfer of propellor aircraft flights from Manila Ninoy Aquino International to Angeles City Clark International, saying that the relocation would damage domestic tourism. Manila's Politiko news site reports National Unity Party member Luis Ray Villafuerte as saying that the [...]
Executive Aviation Taiwan (Taipei Songshan) has added a first G280, ch-aviation research reveals. B-80699 (msn 2069) was first active on February 14, 2025, completing several flights between Taichung Ching Chuan Kang, where it is based, Kaohsiung, Taipei Songshan, and Kinmen. The 10.2-year-old Gulfstream Aerospace aircraft was previously registered in the United States as N806JK and [...]