02.03.2021 - 17:43 UTC
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02.03.2021 - 16:34 UTC
Josh Frydenberg, Australia’s federal treasurer, is considering further measures to support coronavirus-hit companies such as Qantas (QF, Sydney Kingsford Smith) when the government’s JobKeeper wage subsidy expires on March 28.
“We are looking at other measures that we can put in place post-JobKeeper to support a range of industries including the aviation sector,” he told Sky News on February 28.
So far, the flag carrier has received AUD459 million Australian dollars (USD355.8 million) under the JobKeeper scheme, which pays firms to retain staff. With international flights currently at 8% of capacity - consisting of government-funded repatriation flights and cargo services - the company has said that 7,500 people will still be grounded between when the subsidy ends and the end of October when international borders are expected to reopen.
“There’s no doubt that the aviation industry has been hit, and hit hard, and Qantas having a 75% reduction in their revenue is testament to that,” Frydenberg said, adding that the domestic market would improve as vaccines are rolled out.
The airline swung to an...
02.03.2021 - 14:13 UTC
Austrian Airlines (OS, Vienna) has announced it has found a buyer for three of its B767-300(ER)s - Texan aircraft, engines, and parts trader MonoConque Diversified Investments (MDI).
The first of the three Boeing widebodies, OE-LAT (msn 25273), is scheduled to ferry to Marana in early March 2021. The 29.5-year-old aircraft is the oldest of Austrian Airlines' six B767-300(ER)s and has been inactive and parked at Vienna airport since January 9, 2021.
The flag carrier said the second B767 to be ferried to the United States will be OE-LAX (msn 27095), which is the second-oldest at 28.3 years of age. The redelivery flight is scheduled for May 2021. The third B767 is OE-LAW (msn 26417) although the airline did not provide an expected retirement date. Both OE-LAX and OE-LAW continue to be active on revenue operations, although with very low utilisation.
Austrian Airlines plans to continue operating its other three B767-300(ER)s, which are markedly younger (20.4, 21.6, and 22.2 years old, respectively). It owns all six aircraft, according to the ch-aviation...
02.03.2021 - 03:34 UTC
SilkAir (MI, Singapore Changi) has appointed Skytech-AIC to sell seven B737-800s that will not be transferred to parent Singapore Airlines (SQ, Singapore Changi) as a part of their merger.
The Boeing narrowbodies 9V-MGF (msn 44222), 9V-MGG (msn 44223), 9V-MGH (msn 44224), 9V-MGI (msn 44225), 9V-MGJ (msn 44226), 9V-MGP (msn 44232), and 9V-MGQ (msn 44233) will be available for redelivery from July 2021. The first three units were manufactured in 2014, the subsequent two in 2015, and the final two in 2016. All have been operated by the Singaporean carrier since new.
The ch-aviation fleets advanced module shows that SilkAir currently operates seventeen B737-800s, although only six are active as the airline's operations have been reduced to a minimum due to COVID-19 border restrictions.
Nine out of the seventeen B737-800s are due to be transferred to Singapore Airlines which plans to deploy them into revenue service on March 4, 2021. 9V-MGA (msn 44217) and 9V-MGD (msn 44220) have already been operating test flights around Singapore Changi under the...
