Africa’s Air Botswana has received the first of two ATR 72-600 turboprops, with the second due to be delivered before the end of the year. The Botswana national flag carrier…
Indonesia’s National Transport Safety Committee (NTSC) has recovered the flight data recorder from the Lion Air Boeing 737 MAX 8 that crashed on 29 October shortly after taking off from…
Vietjet has firmed up a Memorandum of Understanding unveiled at the Farnborough Airshow in July for an additional 50 Airbus A321neo aircraft. The Vietnamese low-fare carrier placed the order with…
Stobart Air will provide ACMI (Aircraft, Crew, Maintenance and Insurance) services for BA CityFlyer out of London City Airport as of mid-November, investing €36 million in two Embraer E190 regional…
Air Seychelles is to receive an A320neo in the first quarter of 2020 on long-term lease from Air Lease Corporation (ALC) from the latter’s existing order book with Airbus. The…
The AirAsia X Group has a new chief executive officer, after the leading Asian long-haul low-fare carrier confirmed its two co-founders were revamping their roles. AirAsia X Thailand’s CEO Nadda…
Embraer will deliver the first E190-E2 to Fuzhou Airlines, the launch customer in China for the aircraft type, by the end of the year. China is already the world’s second…
Lufthansa Technik Puerto Rico, a wholly owned subsidiary of Lufthansa Technik AG, has received Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) approval to carry out maintenance work on the Airbus A320neo and already…
Canary Islands-based ATR maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) specialist Binter Technic has gone live with the AMOS Airline/MRO Edition software solution from Swiss AviationSoftware (Swiss-AS). The company provides line and…
LARA editor Mark Thomas summarises the latest happenings across the low-fare and regional aviation industry. The subject of Air Passenger Duty (APD) in the UK is a sore point for…