Share Tweet Share Share Email Comments SAS begins collaboration with Cityjet on regional jet services. As part of this collaboration, Cityjet is also acquiring 100% of the shares in SAS subsidiary Blue1. SAS’s strategy is to offer frequent travellers a broad network with frequent flights to, from and within Scandinavia. To adapt the size of … Read more
Share Tweet Share Share Email Comments Bombardier Commercial Aircraft announced that Okinawa-based Ryukyu Air Commuter Co., Ltd (RAC) is the unidentified airline that had signed a firm purchase agreement for five Q400 turboprop airliners previously announced in July 2014. RAC, which is a part of the Japan Airlines Group, is also the launch customer of … Read more
JetBlue Airways announced it will begin seasonal non-stop service between Syracuse Hancock International Airport (SYR) and Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport (FLL) this winter. The new route between Upstate New York and South Florida deepens JetBlue’s commitment to the Empire State as New York’s Hometown Airline and grows the airline’s presence in its Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood focus city. JetBlue will operate once daily round-trip service … Read more
Emirates launched its second daily service from Dubai International Airport (DXB) to Boston Logan International Airport (BOS) on Thursday 1st October 2015. The new service, flight EK239, departs Dubai at 3:20 a.m. and arrives in Boston at 8:55 a.m.The return flight, EK240, will depart at 11:55 a.m. and arrives in Dubai at 8:15 a.m. … Read more
Starting from the winter flight season, effective from October 25, Transaero Airlines will operate all its Moscow flights from Vnukovo airport. This decision was made with consideration for commercial and logistic advantages of flight concentration in a single Moscow airport. This concentration of operations fully meets interests of passengers. Now they have the opportunity to make a transfer between all the airline’s flights … Read more
The India Ministry of Defence has finalized its order with Boeing for production, training and support of Apache and Chinook helicopters that will greatly enhance India’s capabilities across a range of military and humanitarian missions. India will receive 22 AH-64E Apache attack helicopters and 15 CH-47F Chinook heavy-lift helicopters. Both are the newest models … Read more
Chorus Aviation has announced that it will add 10 incremental growth aircraft to the Jazz Aviation fleet. These aircraft will be operated under the Air Canada Express brand per Jazz’s Capacity Purchase Agreement (‘CPA’) with Air Canada. Five 78-seat Q400 turboprops and five 75-seat CRJ705 regional jets will be delivered in 2016 and early 2017 … Read more
Cathay Pacific Airways celebrated a significant achievement with the delivery of the airline’s 70th 777 aircraft – also the last and 53rd 777-300ER (Extended Range) of its confirmed orders – that has made Cathay Asia’s largest operator of the 777 fleet. With the last delivery, Cathay Pacific’s 777 aircraft fleet comprises of 53 777-300ERs, 12 777-300s … Read more
Last weekend, Vietjet’s brand-new aircraft, an A320 (coded VN-A662), landed at Ho Chi Minh City’s Tan Son Nhat International Airport, Ho Chi Minh City after flying from Toulouse in France. The aircraft – an A320 with Sharklet wingtips – is the eighth of the milestone agreement between Vietjet and Airbus for purchasing and leasing 100 aircraft. … Read more
After successfully launching the first Havana-bound flight on a major airline from New York since travel restrictions were eased this year, JetBlue and Cuba Travel Services (CTS) today announced the addition of a second JetBlue charter flight connecting the two cities with nonstop service. The expansion of the JetBlue-CTS schedule comes shortly after the U.S. further eased restrictions … Read more