JetBlue Airways (B6, New York JFK) and Airbus have entered into an amended delivery schedule deferring forty-four A321-200Ns initially due from 2025 to 2029, to 2030 and beyond, the US carrier announced in its 2024 second quarter financial results. Following this deferral, JetBlue’s firm aircraft orders remain as follows: the remainder of 2024: twelve A220-300s, [...]
Alaska Airlines, Hawaiian Airlines, and the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) have agreed on a brief extension to the formal review period of the proposed merger of the two airlines, until 0001L (0401Z) on August 15, the carriers announced in regulatory filings to the US Securities and Exchange Commission on July 30. The airlines [...]
VivaAerobus (VB, Monterrey Mariano Escobedo) has reached an undisclosed compensation agreement with Pratt & Whitney for the ongoing geared turbofan (GTF) engine recalls that have plagued its operations, parking nearly 28% of its fleet during the second quarter of 2024. The Mexican LCC recently reported total operating expenses of USD530 million during the second quarter. [...]
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Nigeria's Cross River state has allocated additional resources to purchase five aircraft for the state's virtual carrier Cally Air (Calabar), according to Nigeria's Africa Independent Television (AIT). Details on the aircraft type were not revealed. "We are making a strategic investment in purchasing additional aircraft to enhance our aviation capabilities to address the current situation [...]
The Court of Justice of the European Union has dismissed Ryanair's appeal against a EUR150 million euro (USD162 million) state loan granted to Lufthansa Group member Austrian Airlines (OS, Vienna) during the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020. In its July 29 judgement, the Luxembourg-based court confirmed the lawfulness of the loan. It dismissed the action brought [...]
Jaz Aviation (Lagos) has taken delivery of its first Hawker 800XP, namely 5N-JAZ (msn 258396). The aircraft was ferried, after lengthy maintenance, from Johannesburg Lanseria via Luanda 4 De Fevereiro to Lagos on July 26, 2024. Jaz Aviation already operates one Legacy 600, 5N-JLA (msn 145516), which has been under maintenance at Bremen Hans Koschnick [...]
South Africa's Zondo Judicial Commission of Inquiry's findings of corruption between 2016 and 2020 at South African Airways (SA, Johannesburg O.R. Tambo), its maintenance subsidiary South African Airways Technical (SAAT), and ground handler Swissport have led to the first foreign prosecution related to the bribery schemes. Julian Aires, president of JM International, a US-based aircraft [...]
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US oil & gas giant ConocoPhillips says it has begun offering an air shuttle service to its employees in the country's lower 48 states using an E145, N284CP (msn 14501178). ConocoPhillips Aviation is basing the aircraft at the ConocoPhillips Global Aviation hangar at Houston Intercontinental for service to Midland International, Carlsbad, NM, Bartlesville, and Williston [...]