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 (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 (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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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Sam Airways (Dakar Yoff-Léopold Sédar Senghor International) has obtained its Air Operator's Certificate (AOC) in Senegal, the local civil aviation authority (Agence nationale de l'aviation civile et de la météorologie - ANACIM) said. The representatives of the business charter specialist visited the regulator on June 20, 2024, to accept the certificate. Sam Airways operates a [...]
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Nigerian aircraft management business Viva Jets has taken on a Bombardier Business Aircraft Challenger 604, entering it into the local register as 5N-CDY (msn 5625). The aircraft was formerly placed at the UAE's Projets Aviation International and was the only 604 on their books. ch-aviation research shows 5N-CDY acquired its Nigerian registration on April 18, [...]