Canada's Summit Air takes over Chrono mining contract

Baffinland Iron Mines Corp has replaced struggling Chrono Aviation (NDL, Québec) with Summit Air Charters (SUT, Yellowknife) as the operator of charter flights to its Mary River mine, although the arrangement is currently a short-term one, Nunatsiaq News has reported. The charter contract, arranged through Arctic Co-operatives Ltd. (a former part-owner of Chrono Aviation), was [...]

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UK Home Office to double Dash 8 patrol fleet

The UK Home Office will double its fleet of Dash 8 turboprops in maritime surveillance configuration to tighten the monitoring of small boats carrying irregular migrants across the English Channel. Like the first, the second aircraft will be operated by PAL Aerospace (SPR, St. John's), the Sunday Telegraph reported. The second aircraft is expected to [...]

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India's Reliance Industries adds first Embraer E175

Reliance Industries (Mumbai International) has taken delivery of its first E175, VT-JMR (msn 17000976), ch-aviation research has found. The brand new Embraer ferried from São José dos Campos U.E. Stumpf International to Delhi International between November 22 and 25, with stops at Recife, Sal Amilcar Cabral International, Palma de Mallorca, Hurghada, and Dubai World Central. [...]

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Air Belgium investor wants only cargo business – report

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Malta's AirX Charter closes Series A funding round

AirX Charter (AX, Malta International) has closed a Series A funding round, raising approximately USD35 million to acquire four additional aircraft, according to its chairman, John Matthews. He says the newly acquired aircraft, which will include a Challenger 850, Legacy 600s, and likely a Challenger 605, will undergo a three-month programme of interior upgrades and [...]

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Tunis prepares fleet renewal plan for Tunisair

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Wizz Air ad banned in UK over ‘misleading’ greenest claim

Wizz Air (W6, Budapest) has been told to halt advertising in the United Kingdom that the country’s Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) deemed as “misleading” over environmental claims, a statement from the regulator said. The ruling comes after the authority investigated an ad that said “Fly Wizz Air - one of the greenest choices in air [...]

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Uzbekistan's My Freighter eyes Hungarian, Saudi AOCs

My Freighter (C6, Tashkent International) plans to obtain two new air operator's certificates, one in Hungary and the other in Saudi Arabia, to support its international growth, founder and chief executive officer of parent Centrum Holding Abdulaziz Abdurakhmanov said during the Central Asia Air Cargo Summit 2024 last week. "These new cargo airlines will allow [...]

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Kyrgyzstan's Asman Airlines eyes A320/1s for European routes

Asman Airlines (KGN, Bishkek) is looking to lease two A320 Family aircraft - either A320-200s or A321-200s - in 2025 for a launch of routes to Europe, although this expansion is contingent on Kyrgyzstan being removed from the EU Air Safety List, according to a statement from the office of the country's president, Sadyr Japarov. [...]

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Seat manufacturing delays a growing issue for Air India

The CEO of Air India (AI, Delhi International) says an aircraft seat shortage is his biggest supply chain issue. Campbell Wilson told Bloomberg TV last week that seat manufacturers are struggling to design, certify, and produce seats at the needed volumes. His comments come as the flag carrier is part way through a programme of [...]

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