Sarawak Premier Abang Johari Openg has failed to meet his self-imposed end-of-December 2024 deadline to finalise the acquisition of MASwings (MY, Kota Kinabalu) from Malaysia Aviation Group. He told local outlets on December 30 that he now wanted to close the deal sometime in the first quarter of 2025, pending a third-party valuation of the [...]
Korean police have searched the Seoul offices of Jeju Air (7C, Jeju) in the wake of the December 29, 2024, crash at Muan airport, looking for airport maintenance and aircraft data. This comes as the airline said it would trim its schedules by 10-15% over the remainder of the northern winter season to reduce aircraft [...]
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Jet Aviation Business Jets (PP, Zurich) took delivery of a first Citation Jet 4 Gen2, resuming Swiss-registered Textron Aviation aircraft operations for the Jet Aviation group, ch-aviation research has revealed. HB-VBE (msn 525C-0454) was ferried between Wichita Eisenhower and Zurich between December 27 and 30, 2024, with stops at Goose Bay and Reykjavik Keflavik. This [...]
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Jet Story (JDI, Warsaw Chopin) has retired its sole Praetor 600, which it had operated from 2021, ch-aviation research has revealed. SP-OMI (55020131) is a 3.6-year-old Embraer Executive Jets configured to accommodate up to 11 passengers. Jet Story was its first operator. The aircraft was last active under the 'JDI' code on September 30, 2024, [...]
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A consortium of Central Asia Aviation Holdings Limited, a subsidiary of the Vietnamese conglomerate Sovico Group JSC, and Kazasia Holdings Limited finalised a deal with the Kazakh sovereign wealth fund Samruk-Kazyna JSC to acquire a 51% stake in Qazaq Air (IQ, Astana Nursultan Nazarbayev) on December 24, 2024. The agreement went into effect three days [...]
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