Air Belgium's future remains uncertain despite an eleventh-hour non-binding takeover bid from private investors that still falls short of the EUR18 million euros (USD19.9 million) required for the airline's reorganisation plan to succeed. Belgian business newspaper L'Echo reports that the unidentified bidders propose to buy 75% of the airline for EUR6 million (USD6.6 million), subject [...]
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Portugal’s audit authority (Inspeção-Geral de Finanças - IGF) has concluded that the privatisation of TAP Air Portugal (TP, Lisbon) in 2015, when Atlantic Gateway, a consortium owned by David Neeleman and Humberto Pedrosa, bought the state-owned carrier, might have been fraudulent, the television channel SIC Notícias reported. The consortium acquired the airline while agreeing with [...]
Michael O’Leary, chief executive of Ryanair Holdings, has said in an interview with the newspaper The Telegraph that he would consider launching a package holiday arm to rival that of low-cost rival easyJet. “I wouldn’t rule out setting up a holidays division. The holiday product is probably a reasonable way of charging higher fares and [...]
JetHouse (JTH, Malta International) has applied for a US Foreign Air Carrier Permit (FACP) and an exemption to launch charter flights between the United States and the European Union. The Maltese business charter specialist currently operates a single Falcon 7X, 9H-NEAH (msn 17). In the absence of US certification, the aircraft has been deployed within [...]
JetHouse (JTH, Malta International) has applied for a US Foreign Air Carrier Permit (FACP) and an exemption to launch charter flights between the United States and the European Union. The Maltese business charter specialist currently operates a single Falcon 7X, 9H-NEAH (msn 17). In the absence of US certification, the aircraft has been deployed within [...]
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KLM Royal Dutch Airlines (KL, Amsterdam Schiphol) is confident about Brussels' impending review of new measures aimed at reducing nightly noise pollution at Amsterdam Schiphol following the Dutch cabinet's amended plan to cut aircraft movements at the airport to between 475,000 and 485,000 annually. The airline, in a statement, said this would translate into 5,000 [...]