Türkiye’s AJet to wet-lease another A320-200
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airBaltic cancels 5% of schedule over P&W engine issues
airBaltic (BT, Riga) has announced that it will cancel about 5% of all its flights currently planned for 2025, including suspending 19 routes altogether and reducing frequencies on 21 other routes due to the Pratt & Whitney engine maintenance delays that will force the company to ground several of its A220-300 aircraft in 2025. The [...]
Kenya's Jetways Airlines adds first F100
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Turkish Airlines, Qatar Airways eye return to Syria
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IndiGo Airlines eyes six B787-9s on wet-lease in 2025
IndiGo Airlines (6E, Delhi International) will reportedly wet-lease six B787-9s from Norse Atlantic Airways (N0, Oslo Gardermoen) in 2025, while it is simultaneously in talks with Airbus about accelerating the deliveries of its first firm-ordered A350-900s to hasten its entry into the long-haul market. The Economic Times reported that the first two B787-9s would begin [...]
Korean Air takes delivery of first A350-900s
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Pilot sues Air India over B777-200LR emergency oxygen supply
The Mumbai High Court ordered India's Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) on December 19, 2024, to examine concerns raised by a pilot about the emergency oxygen supply on certain B777-200LRs operated by Air India (AI, Delhi International). Justices B P Colabawalla and Somasekhar Sundaresa made the order after a pilot filed a claim that [...]
Former chairman of China's Colorful Guizhou Airlines jailed
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Sarawak gov't defers MASwings acquisition to 1Q25
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 [...]
South Korea's Jeju Air to cut network by 10-15% amid probe
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 [...]