FlyGabon will launch its first flights on Aug. 31, initially concentrating on the domestic market but with ambitions to add South Africa flights this year.
BOC Aviation has placed three Boeing 747-8 freighters with new customer Atlas Air and signed sale-and-leaseback deals for 15 new Airbus A320neos with Frontier.
AirAsia parent Capital A has raised nearly half a billion dollars to finance aircraft leasing and continue its efforts to bring aircraft out of storage.
Caribbean governments, airport authorities and tourism organizations call for more air service but they face long-time and new hurdles to attracting airlines.
Representatives from carriers and their most trusted suppliers will have no shortage of topics to discuss during this year’s Air Carriers Purchasing Conference.
Talks are underway over the possibility of creating a new, dedicated cargo airline for Saudi Arabia, according to well-placed sources in the Arab nation.
The replacement of aging, large regional jets and smaller members of mainline jet families provides a potential addressable market of around 2,000 aircraft.
El Al posted a second quarter net profit of $147 million as it works to maintain air transport activities to and from Israel under threat of possible airstrikes