India’s SpiceJet Begins Seaplane Services with Wet-leased Maldivian Twin Otter
SpiceJet has begun India’s first scheduled seaplane services using a De Havilland Canada Series 300 Twin Otter wet-leased from the Maldives national carrier Maldivian. Local news media say the Twin Otter, which is nearly 50 years old, is a surprising…
Virgin Australia, Alliance Airlines Apply To Cooperate On Regional Routes
Virgin Australia and Alliance Airlines are asking the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) for authorisation to cooperate on regional and short-haul international routes. In their ACCC application, the airlines are asking for permission to “[share] information, including in relation…
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India’s Star Air launching new route https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/star-air-to-commence-direct-flights-between-kalaburagi-and-delhi/article32994367.ece Indian regional carrier Star Air is launching the first commercial air service between New Delhi’s Hindon Airport and Kalaburagi Airport in Karnataka, central India. The Embraer ERJ-145 service, which will operate under the…
Bakhtar Afghan Airlines Restarting as Afghanistan’s Domestic Airline
Afghanistan’s government is reviving Bakhtar Afghan Airlines which will operate domestically and be a subsidiary of national carrier Ariana Afghan Airlines. Bakhtar Afghan is performing test flights with a Boeing 737-500 and will add two more aircraft over the next…
MHI Pauses Most SpaceJet Programme Activities
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) is pausing the majority of its SpaceJet programme given the aircraft’s development status and its weak projections for the aerospace industry. Pausing the programme covers most SpaceJet activities, except for documentation of its type certification process,…
Embraer Working With Brazilian Air Force To Develop New Aircraft With Commercial Applications
Embraer has disclosed that it is working on not one, but two very different turboprop aircraft. The Brazilian aircraft-maker disclosed last year that it wanted to develop a 90-seat commercial turboprop aircraft, to compete against ATR and De Havilland Aircraft…
