Colombia has been facing a fuel shortage crisis since last week when Cartagena’s refinery (Reficar) experienced an electric failure that impacted the delivery of Jet A1 fuel to airports such as Leticia, Monteria, and Bucaramanga, the newspaper Semana reported. Bogotá is also reported to have a critical shortage. To address these issues, carriers such as [...]
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AMC Aviation (Poland) (AMQ, Warsaw Chopin) has taken delivery of its first Challenger 605, namely SP-AMC (msn 5785). The 15.8-year-old aircraft was ferried from Hartford Bradley via Bangor International directly to Warsaw Modlin on August 21-22, 2024. It subsequently operated test flights around Modlin and to Lodz, and has yet to enter into revenue service. [...]
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Kenya Airways (KQ, Nairobi Jomo Kenyatta) is seeking to recover more than KES1.5 billion shillings (USD11.6 million) being withheld in Ethiopia due to foreign exchange restrictions in that country, according to CEO Allan Kilavuka. He told Business Daily Africa that Kenya and Ethiopia were negotiating to ease these restrictions, as the funds in Ethiopian banks [...]
New questions have been raised about aircraft bought for Zambia Airways (ZN, Lusaka) in 2015 by the Zambian government under former president Edgar Lungu, with prominent local human rights and anti-corruption activist Gregory Chifire demanding accountability from the present administration. In an interview with the Daily Revelation newspaper in Lusaka, Chifire said that Zambian law [...]
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The General Court of the European Union has dismissed an appeal from Southwind Airlines (2S, Antalya) against the ban on its operations in the bloc's airspace, arguing that the decision was taken at a member-state rather than European level. The Turkish leisure specialist filed for interim measures to suspend the ban, which it argued was [...]