Ongoing fuel shortages have forced Mission Aviation Fellowship of Papua New Guinea (Mount Hagen) (MAF PNG) to cancel non-essential flights to western areas of the country, according to a December 12 media release. "We are cancelling non-essential flying to be able to conserve fuel in the Telefomin, Tabubil, and Kiunga areas," said MAF PNG Interim [...]
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Marabu (DI, Tallinn Lennart Meri) will pause the growth it had planned at its bases at Cologne/Bonn and Stuttgart Manfred Rommel and will not place any additional aircraft at either of these airports, according to aeroTELEGRAPH quoting sources within the company. The publication reported that the company had planned to place a third aircraft in [...]
Luxair (LG, Luxembourg) has firmed up two options for E195-E2 aircraft attached to its 2023 firm order for four units of the type from Embraer. The two additional aircraft are scheduled for deliveries in 2027. The first four aircraft will begin delivering to the airline in 2026. Luxair retains three more purchase rights for E195-E2s, [...]
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Former CEO of automotive giant Stellantis, Carlos Tavares, a Portuguese national, has revealed to Portuguese media that he is looking into playing a role in the planned privatisation of TAP Air Portugal (TP, Lisbon) after being encouraged to do so by friends. Speaking to the newspaper Expresso, he said he was not interested in an [...]
Nigeria's minister of aviation and aerospace development, Festus Keyamo, has expressed his determination to implement during his tenure the long-delayed Fly Nigeria Bill, designed to require government-funded air travel to be conducted using Nigerian airlines, the newspaper Business Day reported. The bill, which has been in development for more than 15 years, aims to make [...]