American Airlines (AA, Dallas/Fort Worth) has voluntarily withdrawn a USD500,000 claim against logistics giant Kuehne + Nagel over a damaged Rolls-Royce Trent 800 engine in a civil action at the US District Court of Northern Texas, according to court documents reviewed by ch-aviation. This comes after the airline, on August 30, demanded a jury trial [...]
Red Sea Airlines (4S, Cairo International) has entered into agreements to add two B737-800s, set to arrive in the first quarter of 2025, according to the company’s director of ground operations, Ahmed Mohamed El-Gendy. In an interview with Arabian Aerospace, El-Gendy said the Egyptian carrier had seen substantial demand in the Central Asian and Eastern [...]
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Con Korfiatis, the new chief executive of Oman Air (WY, Muscat), says the carrier has to simplify its widebody fleet, which is currently composed of A330-200s, A330-300s, B787-8s, and B787-9s. “No transformation I’ve seen succeeds through growth. You’ve got to strip away things, fix the foundations and then grow,” he recently told Arabian Aerospace in [...]
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Uzbekistan Airways (HY, Tashkent International) has announced a new route between Tashkent and Goa Mopa due to begin in October and the restart of flights between Tashkent and Phu Quoc in the same month. The announcements build on comments the airline's management made earlier this year concerning route expansion and acquiring new aircraft. Uzbekistan Airways [...]
As part of its campaign to woo investors to participate in a planned capital infusion of INR32.36 billion rupees (USD385.4 million), SpiceJet (SG, Delhi International) intends to unground 28 of its 36 grounded aircraft, practically doubling the size of its current operational fleet. According to its plans, recently revealed in a September 6 presentation, the [...]
Regional Indian operator flybig (FLG, Indore) intends to start amphibious Viking Air Twin Otter flights to the Andaman and Car Nicobar islands by the end of the year, chairman and managing director Sanjay Mandavia told India's Financial Express newspaper. This follows last month's release by India's civil aviation ministry of guidelines for seaplane operations under [...]