Argentine political party Coalición Cívica has called on the country's justice system to investigate a possible smuggling scheme wherein 14 former public employees, 18 private firms, and ten private citizens are alleged to have bought aircraft at inflated prices, thus benefiting from their access to US dollars at the official Argentine peso/US dollar rate, which [...]
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Riyadh Air (RXI, Riyadh) is in the final stages of securing its Air Operator’s Certificate (AOC), CEO Tony Douglas said during the Routes World 2024 conference in Bahrain. “We’re into route-proving flights at the moment. We’re days away from completing that process. We’ll have an AOC by the end of the year,” he said while [...]
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The UK High Court has granted permission for VietJetAir (VJ, Hanoi Noi Bai International) to appeal the outcome of a lawsuit that has exposed it to over USD275 million in damages and costs. On October 3, 2024, Justice Simon Picken handed down his order allowing the appeal in the matter of FW Aviation (Holdings) 1 [...]
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Air-JPL has taken delivery of a new Praetor 600, its only business jet, ch-aviation research has revealed. C-GSHU (msn 55020206) was registered on August 26, 2024, and subsequently ferried from the manufacturer's site at Melbourne, FL airport to Montréal Trudeau on September 1, 2024. It began operating on September 20, with the first flight to [...]
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The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) says it found no significant safety issues at United Airlines (UA, Chicago O'Hare) following an enhanced oversight and approval audit, which was launched in March following a series of safety mishaps earlier in the year. “The review did not identify any significant safety issues,” the FAA said in a [...]