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Flybe Nordic to take on Finnair services

Flybe Nordic, the joint venture between UK regional carrier Flybe (BE) and Finnair (AY), will take on about one-third of the Finnish flag-carrier’...

ADP buys major stake in Turkey’s TAV airport operations

French airport operator Aéroports de Paris (ADP) has bought significant stakes in the Turkish airport operator TAV Airports and airport...

EU to China: ‘We don’t want a trade war’ 1

EU has appealed to China to join global emission talks as tensions escalate over the country’s refusal to join the European Union’s Emissions...

Mitsubishi Aircraft Corp. confident about revised MRJ program schedule

Mitsubishi Aircraft Corp. (MITAC) said it is confident the issues that forced it to delay the first flight of the MRJ, originally slated for the...

Brazil’s Passaredo places firm order for 10 ATR 72-600s 2

Brazil’s Passaredo Linhas Aéreas took delivery of its first ATR 72-600 via an Air Lease Corp. (ALC) lease Tuesday, and also announced a contract...

SuperJet International: SSJ100 crash ‘does not alter our belief in the aircraft or its safety’ 5

Subdued representatives from SuperJet International (SJI) told reporters at the Regional Airline Assn. (RAA) annual convention in Minneapolis...

Air India pilot strike overshadows 787 delivery 7

Indian flag-carrier Air India’s (AI) long-haul flights on international routes continued to be crippled as the pilot strike enters the 15th day,...

Swedish Skyways Express ceases operations

Sweden’s Skyways Express (JZ) and subsidiary City Airline (CF) have stopped all flights and will file for bankruptcy, according to a statement on...

Southwest to sublease all 88 AirTran 717s aircraft to Delta 6

Southwest Airlines (SWA) has reached a tentative agreement with Delta Air Lines (DL) and Boeing Capital Corp. to sublease all 88 AirTran (FL)...

Thai Airways removes president

Thai Airways International (TG) president Piyasvasti Amranand was removed from his post by the state-run carrier’s board Monday.