VietJet receives first Airbus 321

Airbus has celebrated the delivery of its 9000th aircraft at a ceremony in Hamburg, Germany on 20th March 2015. The aircraft is the first A321 to be delivered to Vietnamese carrier VietJetAir and will join the carrier’s all-Airbus A320 Family fleet flying on its fast-growing Asia-Pacific network. “The delivery of our 9000th aircraft comes as … Read more

Kenya Airways to resume normal flights to Dar-es- Salaam

Kenya Airways will resume it normal flight schedule to Dar- es-Salaam on Thursday 26th March 2015. This follows the amicable resolution of the Bilateral Air Services Agreements (BASA) between Kenya and Tanzania. The airline had reduced its flights to the Tanzanian city from 42 to 14 last week following a communication by the Tanzania Civil … Read more

Cathay Pacific to discontinue Moscow service from June

Cathay Pacific Airways announced that it will discontinue its thrice-weekly service between Hong Kong and Moscow with effect from 1 June 2015. Alternative arrangements will be made for passengers already booked on Cathay Pacific flights to and from Moscow after that date. The airline explained that the Moscow service is being discontinued for commercial reasons. … Read more

Wizz Air grows in Sofia

Wizz Air announced that it will base a 5th Airbus A320 at its Sofia base. From 14 September the airline will operate new services from Sofia to Bari, Cologne, Geneva, Naples and Munich Memmingen. The new aircraft will allow Wizz Air to increase the number of weekly flights on the existing routes from Sofia to … Read more

Icelandair Group to take two Boeing 767s, three Bombardier Q400s

The Board of Directors of Icelandair Group has decided to update the fleet policies of the subsidiaries Icelandair and Air Iceland. All five Fokker 50 aircraft that Air Iceland operates will be sold and three Bombardier Dash 8 Q400 will replace it. After that Air Iceland will operate five aircraft, three Bombardier Q400 and two … Read more