UK start-up Hans Airways has announced the completion of its second round of equity financing, which it said, now moved the airline “significantly closer to being able to launch routes between the United Kingdom and the Indian sub-continent”.

Focused on the Indian market from the UK, current plans envisaged a start date in early autumn 2021, upon completion of regulatory procedures and the opening up of relevant markets pending COVID-19 conditions, the company...

Air cargo carrier FedEx Express (FX, Memphis Int'l) is to take over the lease of Boeing's Dreamlifter Operations Centre at Paine Field, Everett, quashing any hopes of a return of the B787 Dreamliner production to Washington State.

According to a document reviewed by The Seattle Times, the parties are close to finalising the transfer of the lease, a consequence of Boeing’s decision in October 2020 to cease assembly of the...

The Indian Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has relaxed, but not ended, its ban on B737-8 and B737-9 operations in Indian airspace, allowing only overflights and ferry flights.

According to an order issued on April 20, 2021, the only two types of B737 MAX operations permitted in India's airspace are:

• overflights by foreign-registered aircraft, as long as they are in compliance with the appropriate directives of their local authorities and...

TUI fly (Netherlands) (OR, Amsterdam Schiphol) has joined its sister carrier TUI fly (Belgium) (TB, Brussels National) and resumed scheduled B737-8 operations on April 1, 2021, currently deploying two of its three units of the type.

The carrier's first B737 MAX 8 scheduled flights were from Amsterdam Schiphol to Malaga, operated by PH-TFO (msn 44598), Flightradar24 ADS-B data shows. TUI fly (Netherlands)'s third B737-8 remains stored...

Mango Airlines (JE, Johannesburg O.R. Tambo) is to be mothballed from May 15 until such time as it receives funding from the South African state, which has been asked to place its low-cost carrier into bankruptcy protection until July 2021.

This is according to a leaked internal memo to staff by Mango’s Acting Chief Executive Officer William Ndlovu on April 22, in which he disclosed that the government had been...