Air Transport

SAUDI ARABIAN AIRLINES wet-leased second A330-300 (741) with Trent 700s from Wamos Air, Spain.

CHINA AIRLINES, Taiwan leased ex-SAS A350-900 (358) from Altavair AirFinance.

AIR TRANSAT has resumed talks with its CUPE-represented flight attendants on new CBA; initial deal was declined.

DAE CAPITAL reports it acquired 20 aircraft/sold 30 in 2023, ending year with owned/managed/committed fleet of 493.

Sherrexcia "Rexy" Rolle to President, CEO & Accountable Manager of Western Air, Bahamas.

CPaT GLOBAL was selected by SmartLynx to supply distance learning courses for A320, A330, 737NG and 737 MAX pilot training.

Heiko Holm to Chief Technical Officer of Condor (effective March 4), establishing its technical division as an independent department.

LASER AIRLINES, Venezuela secured its IOSA certification from IATA. It has nine MD-80s.

GENESIS acquired 737-800 (37816; leased to JEJU AIR) from Avolon.

MERPATI NUSANTARA is expected to be liquidated by the Indonesian Govt; all assets will be sold via auction.

How ATC instructions were given and followed will be one of the key focus areas for investigators as they work to piece together the accident’s chain of events.

Insufficient wage increases in relation to the cost of living and stagnant compensation from previous years were the major reasons they rejected the agreement.

Nineteen Embraer regional jets will join the fleet of American Airlines Group subsidiary Envoy Air.

With European carriers beefing up summer 2024 capacity, the threat of oversupply across the Atlantic could change the market’s dynamics.

An investigative report says human error, high workload and erroneous engine feathering led to the January 2023 Yeti Airlines accident in Nepal.

The Estonian government is in discussions with seven potential new owners of the Baltic nation’s Nordic Aviation Group (NAG).

Saudi Arabian LCC flynas plans to continue its major growth program in 2024, both in terms of its route map and fleet.

Ryanair has been denouncing the practices of many OTA websites for some time and calling for consumers to be better protected from them.

A selection of 50 new routes starting in January 2024, including network expansions by Aeromexico, Hainan Airlines, Lufthansa and Sky Airline.

Etihad Airways has launched flights between its Abu Dhabi International Airport (AUH) base and both Kozhikode (CCJ) and Thiruvananthapuram (TRV) in India.

UAE national carrier, Etihad Airways, has stepped up its services to India with the launch of two new daily fights. Routes from Abu Dhabi to Kozhikode (CCJ) and Thiruvananthapuram (TRV) in the Kerala region of India began on New Year’s Day.

Zayed Bin Rashid Al Zayani, Bahrain’s Minister of Industry, Commerce & Tourism, speaks to Routes about the aviation aspirations of the Routes World 2024 host and what delegates can expect from the event.

New concepts are in the works, such as military areas that move with the activity along a defined trajectory.

GX AIRLINES, China leased ex-Juneyao A320-200 (4833) with CFM56s from Minsheng Financial Leasing (MSFL).

CIRIUM was selected by ACI World to serve as reference database (details >35m flights per year) in support of the Airport Service Quality (ASQ) program.