Share Tweet Share Share Email Comments Embraer and SkyWest have signed a firm order for an additional 19 E175s jets. The aircraft will be flown by SkyWest Airlines, Inc. a wholly-owned subsidiary of SkyWest, under a Capacity Purchase Agreement (CPA) with Delta Air Lines. The transaction will be included in Embraer’s 2015 fourth-quarter backlog. Delivery … Read more
Share Tweet Share Share Email Comments In line with the letter of intent signed in June 2015, SAS and Widerøe have agreed to transfer the operations at all of SAS Ground Handling’s line stations in Norway to Widerøe Ground Handling (Widerøe). SAS Ground Handling’s operations at 14 line stations in Norway will be transferred to … Read more
Boeing and Norwegian have finalized an order for 19 787-9 Dreamliners valued at more than $5 billion at current list prices. The order also includes options for 10 more 787-9s, as the carrier looks to significantly grow its existing long-haul fleet into the next decade. It is the largest single order for 787-9s from a European airline. … Read more
Lufthansa is introducing new non-stop flights from Munich to Denver on 11th May 2016. The connection has been allocated flight number LH 480 and will take off from Munich at 11:45am five times a week, and the return flight from Denver will arrive in the Bavarian capital at 10:05am.These flights will be operated alongside Lufthansa’s … Read more
KLM transferred the first of seven Fokker 70 aircraft to Air Niugini, the national airline of Papua New Guinea. KLM will begin phasing out the Fokker 70 in December this year, at which time it will also welcome two new Embraer 190s. Air Niugini previously purchased a Fokker 100 and a Fokker 70 from KLM, in … Read more
Bell Helicopter announced the sale of eight Bell 206L-4s to Air Medical Group Holdings (AMGH). AMGH is one of the largest independent providers of helicopter emergency medical services (HEMS) in the world, and the aircraft will be configured for HEMS missions and operated by Air Evac Lifeteam, an AMGH subsidiary. Deliveries are scheduled to begin … Read more
Etihad Airways, the National Airline of the United Arab Emirates, today welcomed the ruling by the Administrative Court of Braunschweig allowing it to continue operating all its codeshare flights with airberlin to destinations in Europe, the US and the UAE. The injunction, which is valid until 8 November, provides an opportunity for the parties to resolve … Read more
Cargojet has recently renewed its International Air Transport Association’s (IATA) Operational Safety Registration. The IATA Operational Safety Audit (IOSA) programme is an internationally recognized and accepted evaluation system designed to assess the operational management and control systems of an airline. IOSA uses internationally recognized quality audit principles to conduct audits in a standardized and consistent … Read more
Austrian Airlines is expanding its flight service to Iran, offering one additional daily flight to Teheran starting on March 11, 2016. As a result, Austria’s national carrier will be departing from Vienna up to twice a day to head for the Iranian capital. Austrian Airlines will also offer a day flight in addition to the … Read more
Air Seychelles, the national airline of the Republic of Seychelles, has significantly strengthened its fleet capacity by registering its first Airbus A330 aircraft under the Seychelles civil aircraft register. The aircraft, named Aldabra after one of the largest coral atolls on the planet, was welcomed at Seychelles International Airport this morning after making its first … Read more