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The Norwegian Armed Forces have on March 4, 2024 signed a new agreement with SAS for strategic air evacuation. The agreement ensures continued capacity for strategic air evacuation using SAS’ latest Airbus A320neo aircraft. This will follow the phase-out of the current aircraft and transition to the new agreement will take place in 2025. Photo: […]

Qatar Airways and Aer Lingus (EI) are launching a new codeshare partnership which began on March 13, 2024. The codeshare will give customers greater access to more destinations across the UK and Ireland, and benefit passengers across the globe – including in Africa, Asia, Australia, the Middle East and New Zealand.  Qatar Airways will add

Frontier Airlines is celebrating the opening of a new crew base at Cleveland Hopkins International Airport. Frontier Airlines representatives, along with Cleveland Director of Port Control Bryant L. Francis, C.M., and Bonnie Teeuwen, Chief Operating Officer, City of Cleveland, participated in a ribbon-cutting ceremony to mark the occasion. The base is expected to employ up

An affiliate of Eastern Air Holdings of Kansas City has submitted a bid to acquire AeroTech Miami and iAero Airways. iAero is pursuing an asset-sale agreement with this affiliate linked with Eastern Air Lines (3rd). The proposed asset sale would include the Boeing 737s of iAero Airways. According to the carrier, iAero Airways owns and/or

United Airlines Boeing 737-10 MAX 10 N27602 (msn 43510) (The future is SAF) PAE (Nick Dean). Image: 961800. United Airlines has formally cancelled its outstanding order for the uncertified Boeing 737-10 MAX 10. Instead the aircraft will be built as the smaller 737-9 MAX 9. According to United CEO Scott Kirby, “We’ve asked Boeing to

From CBS News: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/pilots-fall-asleep-mid-flight-150-on-board-batik-air-indonesia Batik Air aircraft photo gallery:

LATAM Airlines (Chile) issued this short statement: “Flight LA800, operating the Sydney — Auckland route today, had a technical event during the flight which caused a strong movement.” The airline did not define what the strong movement was. The aircraft involved was Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner CC-BGG. Read more from CNN: https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/11/australia/new-zealand-latam-airlines-intl-hnk/index.html Meanwhile the LATAM Group

Spirit Airlines has a heavy debt load and its continuing losses going forward dampen its prospects. The company lost $214 million in the fourth quarter of 2024 and $495 million for 2023, Spirit previously reported a $598 million loss for 2022. It had hoped to be merged with JetBlue but that hope has been dashed

Vietnam Airlines will take off from Munich Airport for the first time at the end of the summer flight schedule from October 2, 2024. In so doing, the airline is expanding its Asian flight program from Munich and will fly passengers twice a week to Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City. The airline will use