Icelandic court absolves Lufthansa from Air Berlin debt
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Germany's Hahn Air eyes fleet renewal in 2026
Hahn Air (HR, Frankfurt International) will renew its fleet of business jets in the first half of 2026, replacing its Cessna Citation CJ3+ with a CJ3 Gen2, and its Latitude with a new unit of the same type. General Manager Daniel Rudas spoke to ch-aviation about the airline's fleet, flight operations, high-quality concierge services and [...]
Air Botswana targets more E1s, regional growth
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Administrators of UK's CargoLogicAir mull Microsoft lawsuit
The administrator of CargoLogicAir (P3, London Stansted) has criticised Microsoft for failing to grant access to the insolvent airline's Azure and 365 subscriptions, which she says is "severely hampering" the administration's progress. Joint administrator Joanne Milner made the comments in a June 14, 2024, progress report. The airline's sole shareholder is Cargo Logic Holdings Ltd. [...]
AirAsia X eyes Kenya from mid-4Q24
AirAsia X (D7, Kuala Lumpur International) will launch flights to Africa with the debut of services between Kuala Lumpur and Nairobi Jomo Kenyatta on November 15, 2024. As first reported by AeroRoutes, the four-times-per-week roundtrips will be operated by the LCC's A330-300. The Malaysian Aviation Commission has granted the airline permission to operate up to [...]
Qantas to add more Q400s, phase out Q200/300s
Qantas (QF, Sydney Kingsford Smith) will acquire 14 additional mid-life DHC-8-Q400s by the end of calendar 2024 that will operate under the QantasLink brand. The additions will bring the number of Q400 aircraft in the Qantas Group fleet to 45, and also allow for the gradual phasing out of the remaining DHC-8-Q300 and DHC-8-Q200 types. [...]
Vietnam Airlines revives regional jet plans
Vietnam Airlines (VN, Hanoi Noi Bai International) is revisiting a plan to induct regional jets to fly to airports too small to handle the carrier's existing aircraft, according to the airline's general director, Le Hong Ha. Speaking at the annual general meeting of shareholders in Hanoi on June 21, 2024, Ha outlined several prospective fleet [...]
FTX lawyers urge the return of seized bizjets to the Bahamas
John Ray, the chief lawyer of Chapter 11 cryptocurrency firm FTX Trading LTD, requested New York judge Lewis Kaplan to return two seized aircraft, a Legacy 600 business jet, C6-BDE (msn 14500967), and a Global Express 5000, N410AT (msn 9295), to FTX’s Bahamian liquidators, who have a “superior interest” in the assets. First reported by [...]
Mexico’s Aerus schedules international debut
Aerus (ZV, Monterrey Mariano Escobedo) has scheduled its international debut with daily flights to Brownsville, Texas set to begin on September 9, 2024. Bookings for the flights will open on July 8. Earlier this year, the US Department of Transportation granted Aerus (legal name Aerotransportes Rafilher, S.A. de C.V.) authorisation to engage in scheduled and [...]
US's Icarus Jet inks deal to access RVR Aviation's E135s
Business aircraft charter operator Icarus Jet has signed a strategic charter brokerage partnership with RVR Aviation (Arlington, WA) to access four E135s. Icarus says the agreement significantly enhances the its regional group charter services. According to ch-aviation fleets data, the four E135s in RVR Aviation's fleet are N926FM (msn 145466), N234BZ (msn 145388), N311RF (msn [...]