Bidding for a stake in PIA - Pakistan International Airlines (PK, Islamabad International) is expected to take place in the first week of August after six entities and/or consortia pre-qualified to do so. The entities eligible to bid are AirBlue (PA, Karachi International), Arif Habib Corporation, Blue World City, Fly Jinnah (9P, Karachi International), Pak [...]
Mining company Mineral Resources Limited has commenced fly-in-fly-out (FIFO) flights using its in-house airline, MinRes Air (Perth International), and an A319-100 wet-leased from Skytraders (SND, Sydney Kingsford Smith). Refurbished and repainted in MinRes Air's livery, the 15.5-year-old VH-VHP (msn 3757) completed a 3,600-kilometre sector from Brisbane International to Ken's Bore via Wodgina on July 2 [...]
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FlyingGroup is positioning itself as a high-quality specialist in the management of midsize and large business jets, even while it has also developed expertise as one of the leading PC-24 operators. It is also mulling a unified EASA AOC across the group, chairman and chief executive Bernard van Milders told ch-aviation in an interview at [...]
The Sri Lankan government has decided to restructure rather than privatise SriLankan Airlines (UL, Colombo International) after none of the entities that expressed interest in it were deemed suitable. A July 3 media statement on the Sri Lankan government website confirmed the change of heart, with the aviation minister, Nimal Siripala de Silva, saying none [...]
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My Freighter (C6, Tashkent International) has signed a lease agreement with Air Transport Services Group (ATSG) for two additional B767-300ER(BCF)s, increasing its overall freighter-dedicated fleet to five aircraft, ch-aviation research has learned. ADS-B data shows that both airframes, N230CM (msn 25583) and N274CM (msn 25587), are currently stored in Wilmington Air Park. They are owned [...]