Chinese Cargo Start-Up To Use CRJ900s
Chinese cargo startup Quzhou Airlines, a joint venture between China Express Airlines and the city of Quzhou, has received its first aircraft, an ex-China Express Bombardier CRJ900. It is unclear when the airline will start operations, but the city government…
Philippines’ Sunlight Express Receives AOC
Philippine ATR 72-500 startup Sunlight Express Airways has received its air operator’s certificate (AOC) and will begin charter flights to several resort destinations. The CEO of Sunlight Express, Ryna Brito, says in an email to Smart Aviation APAC that the Civil Aviation…
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Dhaka airport fines Maldivian for flying in passengers without COVID-19 negative certificates https://www.thedailystar.net/city/news/maldivian-airlines-fined-tk-238-lakh-bringing-passengers-without-covid-19-negative-certificates-2009749 Maldivian, the Maldives’ national carrier, has been fined BDT238,000 (US$3,000) by Dhaka’s Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport for carrying in passengers without COVID-19 negative certificates. The airline transported…
Philippines’ Cebu Pacific Receives Second ATR 72-500 Freighter Amidst Cargo Resilience
Cebu Pacific Air has taken delivery of its second converted ATR 72-500 freighter, as cargo becomes its main source of revenue. The ATR 72-500Fs were converted at maintenance, repair and overhaul company Sabena Technics’s facility in Dinard, France, using supplemental…
GE Aviation and DLR Measure Flyover Noise Synchronously From Ground and Aircraft
GE Aviation’s Munich-based Advanced Technology team is collaborating with the German Aerospace Centre (DLR) to study noise pollution associated with turboprops. The project measures flyover noise synchronously using a Dornier 228-mounted microphone array and over 200 ground-mounted microphones at DLR’s…
Pakistan International Airlines Cancels Four ATR 72-500 Leases
National carrier Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) is returning all four of its ATR 72-500s to lessor ACIA-Aero Leasing prematurely due to high leasing costs. Local news reports, citing an airline spokesperson, say PIA negotiated to return the four turboprops early…
Air Vanuatu ATR 72-600 Returns After Nine Months
Air Vanuatu’s sole ATR 72-600 has returned to the South Pacific island nation after nine-months in Australia. The ATR 72-600 had gone to Cairns for extensive maintenance before the COVID-19 pandemic hit, Air Vanuatu says in a statement. It was…
Philippines’ Sunlight Express Poised To Launch Operations With ATR 72-500s
Sunlight Express Airways, a new charter airline in the Philippines backed by a local hotel and resort company, aims to begin operations with three ATR 72-500s around Christmas. CEO Ryna Brito tells Smart Aviation APAC that the airline is…
MagniX Partners Sydney Seaplanes to Develop Electric Cessna Caravan
Electric aircraft motor designer MagniX is partnering with Sydney Seaplanes and electric aircraft developer Dante Aeronautical to create electric-powered Cessna Caravans. US-based MagniX says the supplemental type certificate (STC) programme aims to create a Cessna Caravan all-electric conversion that will…
Thailand’s Nok Air Announces Management and Board Resignations
The deputy CEO and two board members have resigned from loss-making Thai low-cost carrier Nok Air, which is in bankruptcy protection. Nok Air’s stock exchange announcement says deputy CEO Raj Tanta-Nanta, independent director and chairman of the audit committee Chiraporn…
Samoa Airways Refutes Queries on Airline’s Viability
National carrier Samoa Airways has refuted claims about its difficulties in repaying debt obligations, as the airline races to complete lease negotiations on a replacement Boeing 737-800. In its response to The Samoa Observer, the airline says reports about it having…
Australia’s Sharp Airlines To Extend Hobart Flights
Regional operator Sharp Airlines will continue providing scheduled services between Hobart in Tasmania to Flinders Island and King Island in Bass Strait at least until the end of April 2021. The airline says in an announcement that the decision was…
