Japanese start-up JCAS Airways (Osaka Kansai) has raised JPY300 million yen (USD2.1 million) in its first Pre-Series A funding round, according to a September 18 media release from the carrier. The airline says it has raised approximately JPY450 million (USD3.13 million) to date. "We have raised funds from companies in Toyama Prefecture, where a route [...]
Central Mountain Air (9M, Smithers) has inducted its first DHC-8-Q400 into operations, deploying it out of Dease Lake on mining charters in cooperation with the Tahltan Nation Development Corporation (TNDC). C-GWUG (msn 4479) was delivered to the airline and ferried to Calgary in mid-August 2024. It began test flights in Calgary and Lethbridge on September [...]
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Skyservice Airlines (Toronto Pearson) has opened its new Fixed Based Operator (FBO) facilities at Seattle Boeing Field airport to support its growth in the United States' Pacific Northwest region. The new facility covers 6,600 square metres (71,000 square feet) and comprises a 4,740-square-metre (51,000-square-foot) hangar capable of handling the newest-generation ultra-long-range business jets, passenger and [...]
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Jama'at Nusrat al-Islam wal Muslimeen (JNIM), a local affiliate of Al-Qaeda, attacked Mali's Bamako Airport on September 17 in its largest assault on the capital in years, setting fire to the presidential B737-700(BBJ). Videos released by the militia and seen by ch-aviation show fighters setting fire to one of the CFM International CFM56 engines of [...]
Electioneering has taken off in Namibia, where the ruling South West African People's Organisation (SWAPO) has again promised to revive the country's defunct national airline Air Namibia, reports the Namibian newspaper. "We will revive the national airline under very well thought out strategies to avoid the pitfalls of the past," SWAPO vice president Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah [...]
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Air Belgium (KF, Brussels Charleroi) has transitioned from judicial reorganisation to judicial supervision called a "transfer of undertaking under judicial authority" under a new Belgian law which will see the creation of an unencumbered newco and the eventual liquidation or termination of the old company, founder and CEO Niky Terzakis has confirmed to ch-aviation. The [...]
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