Argentina opens up groundhandling to private firms
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Belize's Tropic Air eyes ATRs, regional growth
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Canada's CJet Aviation adds P.180, launches FBO
CJet Aviation has opened a Fixed Base Operation at Trois-Rivières, Québec province, as it prepares to launch charter operations with its recently inducted Piaggio Avanti. P.180 C-GCVU (msn 1151) was ferried from St. Petersburg/Clearwater via Harrisburg International to Trois-Rivières on August 16, 2024, still under its previous US registration, N159KH. It was operated privately in [...]
US's Clay Lacy to open Sun Valley FBO, large jet permit axed
Clay Lacy Aviation (CLY, Van Nuys) has obtained a lease at Sun Valley airport, Idaho to build a new Fixed Base Operation. The new FBO will be built on a 10-acre (40,500-square-metre) plot with construction to begin once the design is finalised and permits secured. No specific date for the opening was given. The new [...]
Venezuela’s Estelar, Avior announce partnership
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Nigeria's Xejet adds wet-leased E190
Xejet (4U, Lagos) is wet-leasing an E190 from Windrose Airlines (7W, Kyiv Boryspil) for the introduction of a premium economy product between Lagos and Abuja, CEO Emmanuel Iza has confirmed to ch-aviation. He said the ACMI contract with the Ukrainian carrier will run for three months initially. ADS-B data shows that UR-EMA (msn 19000494) was [...]
EASA declines comment on safety audit at Air Arabia Maroc
The European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) has declined to comment on a report that it flagged serious safety concerns at Air Arabia Maroc (3O, Casablanca Mohamed V) regarding scheduling practices that allegedly compromise fatigue management guidelines. "EASA does not comment in any way on the outcomes of our Third Country Operators (TCO) decisions or [...]
France's Jet Corporate loses AOC
Jet Corporate has "ceased activity" as a commercial aircraft operator as of August 1, 2024, a ch-aviation review of French civil aviation authority records shows. The Lyon Bron-based company operated a single Cessna Citation Jet 1+, F-HRCA (msn 525-0650), which remains active but is now based out of Caen. It operates with no operator's callsign [...]
Germany's Unicair adds first Learjet 45
Unicair (UNI, Cologne/Bonn) has expanded its fleet with the addition of its first Learjet 45, marking the German operator's first non-XR variant of the aircraft, according to ch-aviation research. D-CHLP (msn 45-005) completed its first flight under Unicair's 'UNI' code on November 6, 2024, between Copenhagen Roskilde, where it had been stored since September 2022, [...]
Air Belgium retires last A330-900
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