US Bankruptcy Judge Martin Glenn has ordered LATAM Airlines Group to comply with a GOL Linhas Aéreas Inteligentes application to depose three executives, which was authorised in February after it was found that LATAM broke GOL’s bankruptcy automatic stay by trying to poach aircraft leases. First reported by specialised news outlet Law360, Glenn told LATAM [...]
Business jet charter operator FlyExclusive (JRE, Kinston) has taken on a Challenger 350, with ch-aviation research showing the aircraft, N234GF (msn 20620), switched operators in early May. The jet previously operated for a Michigan-based legal advisory firm called Fieger & Fieger. US Federal Aviation Administration records show N234GF is owned by an entity called FE [...]
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Swiss (LX, Zurich) expects the number of aircraft grounded due to ongoing Pratt & Whitney PW1000G engine issues to increase to up to 14 in 2024, according to the company’s head of operations, Oliver Buchhofer. Moreover, Swiss media outlet AeroTELEGRAPH reports that the airline is working under the assumption that the engine grounding issue will [...]
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Dmitry Yadrov, head of Russia’s civil aviation regulator (Rosaviatsiya), has confirmed that S7 Airlines (S7, Novosibirsk) is experiencing problems keeping its fleet of A320neo and A321neo aircraft in the air, with Western sanctions on Russia hampering the maintenance of their Pratt & Whitney PW1000G engines. Separately, S7 has come out in opposition to a Kremlin [...]
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The Delhi High Court has issued SpiceJet (SG, Delhi International) with a contempt notice after it ignored earlier deadlines to return three aircraft engines to lessor TWC Aviation Capital. However, the court will stay the action if the low-cost carrier hands over the engines by a new July 8, 2024, deadline. ch-aviation previously reported on [...]