Sudan's Sun Air secures AOC, outlines initial network plans

Sudan's Sun Air set to resume commercial flight operations

Parked aircraft take fire as fighting engulfs Khartoum

At least 25 people are dead while at least two large commercial aircraft sustained heavy damage after Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and Sudanese armed forces (SAF) clashed in Khartoum on Saturday, April 15. During the fighting, two people were killed at Khartoum International Airport, while RPG fire and gunfire saw a Saudia (SV, Jeddah) A330-300 and SkyUp Airlines (PQ, Kyiv Boryspil) B737-800 go up in flames.

The fighting, which has spread outside Khartoum in recent days, is part of an ongoing civil war in Sudan and continuing hostilities between the paramilitary RSF and the SAF. The RSF are resisting a power sharing deal which will involve their integration into the SAF as part of a proposed transition to civilian rule. On Saturday morning, as hostilities broke out in Sudan's capital, on the ground reports say the RSF took control of Khartoum Airport as jeeps laden with RSF armed fighters swarmed onto the aprons.

Footage is circulating on social media showing black smoke billowing from both aircraft which were parked at remote...

SkyUp Malta adds B737-800; parent adds FlyOne, Tunisair ACMI

Ukraine's SkyUp to operate summer sun charters

SkyUp Airlines (PQ, Kyiv Boryspil) is pushing into the Romanian market over the 2023 Northern Hemisphere summer with an affiliated tour company chartering B737-800s to operate flights to a series of sun destinations from four Romanian airports, the travel news site BoardingPass reported citing information sent by the tour operator Join Up.

Join Up, which is affiliated to SkyUp Airlines, will use an unspecified number of aircraft on a series of flights from Bucharest Baneasa, Cluj-Napoca, Timisoara, and Suceava to seven airports across Egypt, Turkey, Greece, Spain, Tunis, and Portugal between March 26 and October 2.

The aircraft will be provided via an AOC in a European Union member state that SkyUp Airlines is working on establishing. According to reports last summer, that was expected to be SkyUp MT (U5, Malta International), but this entity remains in the start-up stage. The issue should be resolved ahead of the first Join Up charter in Romania. The European AOC is intended to improve SkyUp's access to airports in the bloc,...

Editorial Comment: Added source and rearranged wording on the European AOC - 03.02.2023 - 16:29 UTC