Spirit Airlines (NK, Fort Lauderdale International) plans to furlough about 330 pilots on January 31, 2025, a spokesman confirmed to ch-aviation, after the company announced workforce reductions starting early next year as it looks to cut USD80 million in annual costs as part of an ongoing strategy to return to profitability. "We are implementing a [...]
Advanced Air (AN, Hawthorne) is planning to transfer the recently acquired business jet fleet of Desert Jet (DJR, Palm Springs Jacqueline Cochran Regional) to its own Part 135 certificate within the next four months to expand in the mid-size segment. "All Desert Jet aircraft, hopefully, in the next 120 days will be moved over to [...]
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ACASS Canada (Montréal Trudeau) is planning to leverage its certificates - in Canada, Ireland, and San Marino - as tools for its customers, focusing on their individual needs with no strategic preference for any of the three jurisdictions, Chief Executive and Co-Owner Andre Khury told ch-aviation in an exclusive interview during the NBAA-BACE in Las [...]
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Jet Paris has secured Air Operator Certificate (AOC) FR.AOC.0155 from the French civil aviation authority (Direction générale de l’aviation civile - DGAC) allowing it to commercially operate its fleet, which is composed exclusively of Honda Aircraft. "It took us two years to obtain this certificate due to the strict regulatory standards of the French authorities," [...]
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PSA Airlines (OH, Dayton James M. Cox) will dry-lease fourteen CRJ900NGs from parent American Airlines (AA, Dallas/Fort Worth) which is purchasing them. They will be delivered and inducted in phases. With the first aircraft expected between October and November, the company said these new jets will allow PSA’s continued growth “and its significance to [...]
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