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Britain is introducing new sanctions against the Russian airline sector to prevent state-owned Aeroflot , Ural Airlines and Rossiya from selling their unused landing slots at British airports, worth US$61.9 million. Italy froze assets worth US$153 million owned by Superjet International (Italy), du...

Turkish Airlines has decided to purchase six A350-900 passenger aircraft from Airbus to be delivered in 2022 and 2023. Turkish Airlines intends to accept more new aircraft into the fleet than previously planned, as part of the 39 aircraft to be delivered in 2022. Eleven of the new aircraft are desti...

TUI fly Belgium took delivery of one A320, MSN 3475, on lease from Smartlynx Airlines Malta, reg 9H-SLR.

Eurowings Europe was entered in the Maltese company register, set up to succeed the Austrian unit. It is owned by Irish Lhamih (Ireland), a holding company of Lufthansa. The new airline Eurowings Europe is scheduled to start in autumn 2022.

Lots of diversions to neighbouring airports due to thunderstorms over Brussels:
- Emirates from Dubai to MST
- SN from London, Lyon and Copenhagen to LGG
- TB from Faro to LGG
- Icelandair from KEF to CRL
- Sky Express from Athens to LIL

Juan Jose Hidalgo has launched an urgent reorganisation of his assets to get both Globalia and subsidiary Air Europa out of technical bankruptcy. He intends to obtain between €400-500 million to recapitalise the family holding company.

FAA is finalising three safety directives for some grounded Boeing 777 planes with P&W 4000 engines that will allow them to return to service. United Airlines doesn’t expect to fly dozens of B777s, grounded more than a year ago after one suffered an engine failure, until at least mid-May 2022. ...

TUI continues to execute its goal of rapidly deleveraging the Group, reducing interest costs and further reducing Corona state aid. The proceeds from the capital increase and existing cash resources are to be used to repay in full the government Silent Participation II of €700 million from the Germa...

Ryanair has opened its first aircraft heavy maintenance facility in Ireland at Shannon Airport, delivering an investment of €10 million and creating 200 high-skill jobs.

Lufthansa major shareholder of recent, Klaus Michael-Kuhne, is eyeing a position on the airline’s supervisory board.

IndiGo has approved the appointment of former KLM boss Pieter Elbers as the CEO and as a Whole Time Director, effective from 01 October 2022, following the resignation of Ronojoy Dutta effective 30 September 2022.

Condor state aid from 2019 is compatible with European law, rules the Court of the EU, thus rejecting a lawsuit by Ryanair.

Not surprisingly, China has since rejected the conclusion of the report. Chinese pilots don't make errors!

CargoLogic Germany can only regain its right to fly if it changes ownership away from the Volga-Dnepr Group (Russia). Ukrainian airline SkyUp has resumed flights in Europe, wet-leasing its five B737-800s to Air Moldova, Corendon Europe Airlines (Malta) and Tailwind Airlines (Turkey). Negotiations w...

ATR announced its plans for the next generation of its best-selling family of regional aircraft by 2030, the ATR ‘EVO’. The plan foresees advanced design features and a new powerplant with hybrid capability to offer customers the next generation of ATR aircraft. https://www.aviation24.be/manufacture...

Akasa Air of India will now take to the skies in July 2022, about a month later than when it was expected to start operations, as the airline is yet to import an aircraft for proving flights. Akasa Air , which is still planning to start its commercial flight operations in July 2022, said its airlin...

Air Canada will now return its temporarily converted fleet of B777s and A330s to passenger service, having previously converted 11 aircraft into "preighters".

IATA has urged Asia-Pacific states to further ease border measures to accelerate the region’s recovery from COVID-19.

Irish lessor AerCap confirms it will not exercise the cancellation rights for the 68 B737 MAX legacy GECAS order.

Update Flown SK BRU-CPH A320 --> A220 Was that the airBaltic A220-300 flying for SAS? Seems lots of people will be in Tallinn this year Hope you all enjoy it! Scheduled in June, flying airBaltic direct outbound and Finnair via HEL inbound. I will certainly enjoy it as much as I did a few years ago,...

Two F-16s of Florennes were scrambled to intercept a cargo plane over The Netherlands. They accompanied that aircraft until its final destination Liège airport. The incident looks more serious than usual. Federal authorities on the scene are conducting a further investigation into the aircraft. Belg...