Pegasus Airlines (PC, Istanbul Sabiha Gökcen) has no plans to add any widebody aircraft as it still sees ample potential for international and domestic growth with its all-narrowbody fleet, chief executive Güliz Öztürk said during a panel debate at the 2024 Farnborough Air Show. The Turkish low-cost carrier is currently rolling over to an all-A320neo [...]
Albinati Aeronautics (LUC, Geneva) is positioning itself as a boutique aircraft management company with a fleet of twenty aircraft providing "Swiss quality" throughout Europe, sales chief Rolf Kuijper told ch-aviation in an interview during EBACE in Geneva. "As a medium-sized management company, we remain agile and put an immense emphasis on really understanding who our [...]
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Hawaiian Airlines (HA, Honolulu) parent Hawaiian Holdings saw its stock plummet by 9% on July 25 following reports that the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) is unlikely to approve its proposed USD1.9 billion merger with Alaska Airlines (AS, Seattle Tacoma International) holding Alaska Air Group. According to financial markets news site Seeking Alpha, traders [...]
The United States Department of Transportation (DOT) has opened an investigation into Delta Air Lines' handling of over 6,000 cancelled flights since Friday, July 19, Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg announced on July 24. The airline has struggled to resume normal service almost a week after a global IT outage at cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike created [...]
Leviate Jet Management (SBE) has inducted its first Challenger 300 super-midsize business jet into its managed and operated fleet, ch-aviation research has revealed. N528YT (msn 20382) was inducted onto the United States RVSM register as being operated by Leviate Jet Management on March 6, 2024. After a brief period at Dallas Love Field, the 11.6-year-old [...]
JetBlue Airways (B6, New York JFK) has commenced legal action against Florida's Department of Revenue to contest an assessment for additional corporate income taxes recently imposed for 2019 through 2021. The disputed tax bill, including interest, is USD631,632.11. The airline filed its complaint, JetBlue Airways Corp. & Subsidiaries v. State of Florida Department of Revenue [...]
Cabo Verde Airlines (VR, Sal Amilcar Cabral International) has boosted capacity on its domestic routes by redeploying an ATR72-600 on a renewed wet-lease from Air Sénégal (HC, Dakar Blaise Diagne International), according to ADS-B data. 6V-AMS (msn 1447) resumed flights between Praia, Sal Amilcar Cabral International, and São Vicente on July 22, ADS-B data shows, [...]
The European Commission is not satisfied with the remedies that IAG International Airlines Group has offered for the acquisition of Air Europa (UX, Palma de Mallorca) through its Spanish subsidiary Iberia (IB, Madrid Barajas) and could block the deal, the Financial Times reported. According to the newspaper, the competition regulator has urged IAG to relinquish [...]
Air France-KLM remains interested in the privatisation of TAP Air Portugal (TP, Lisbon) despite the group posting lower-than-expected results for the second quarter of 2024 resulting in cost-cutting measures and a moratorium on new jobs, CEO Benjamin Smith said during a conference call with journalists on July 25. "In strategic terms, and depending on the [...]