The United States' Corporate Aircraft Association (CAA) has selected Executive Air Taxi as its preferred fixed-base operator (FBO) at Bismarck Airport. The announcement, which took effect May 1, 2024, followed a competitive voting process among CAA members. Executive Air Taxi is among the biggest charter operators in the US Midwest. According to its website, available [...]
Airchoice has added its first Gulfstream Aerospace (GLF, Savannah International) GIV, namely N520EP (msn 1110), ch-aviation research has revealed. The 34.8-year-old aircraft was registered to the Mount Pleasant, IA-based operator on April 2, 2024, but does not appear to have flown since then. Owned by Airchoice, it was formerly operated by Diamond Air LLC as [...]
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In a move designed to open up the domestic airline market, the Ethiopian Civil Aviation Authority has authorised private charter carriers to break into Ethiopia's scheduled domestic passenger and cargo market. In a statement released on social media, the authority revealed that it had already granted licences to Ethiopian air transport operators to provide regular [...]
Wizz Air Holdings said in its annual report that it pocketed "significant compensation" from Pratt & Whitney for the PW1100G GTF engine issues but warned that the number of aircraft grounded will only grow in the coming months. The Wizz Air (W6, Budapest) parent did not disclose the amount it was given but recorded the [...]
FlyArna (G6, Yerevan) has reportedly informed its employees by email that it has started liquidation proceedings, local investigative news site Hetq reported citing anonymous informants. The government has also approved the dissolution of the Armenian National Interests Fund (ANIF), a 49% shareholder in the carrier. The sources said that the airline had terminated all remaining [...]
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Qatari and Indian interests are part of a consortium that wants to buy a majority stake in SriLankan Airlines (UL, Colombo International), according to Colombo's Daily FT outlet. MBS Investments, the investment arm of Sheikh Nayef Bin Eid Al Thani's private office, has teamed up with Sri Lanka's Supreme Global Holdings and India's Sherisha Technologies [...]
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