Reading Time: 2 minutes GetJet Airlines has begun operations in Canada having recently signed a short-term contract with Sunwing Airlines. This marks the airline’s first operations in the Canadian market. Foreign airlines operating in Canada are robustly regulated by Canada’s civil aviation authority, Transport Canada Civil Aviation (TCCA). Airlines must have a Foreign Air Operator Certificate (FAOC) to start […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute An Atlas Air Boeing 747-400, registration N480MC performing positioning flight 5Y-2868 from Manchester, EN (UK) to Orlando, FL (USA) with 20 crew on board, was enroute at FL380 about 220nm westsouthwest of Shannon (Ireland) about to enter Oceanic Airspace when the crew entered a hold to work on a problem. After about an hour the […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute KlasJet, a European private and business charter carrier is continuing on improving their customer experience. The company is a part of Avia Solutions Group widely known as a provider of the comprehensive aviation services. The Group integrates MRO services & supply chain, pilot & crew training, aviation staff leasing, ground handling & aircraft fueling, aircraft […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute Last week of September has brought some bad news for thousands of travellers. Especially for nearly 600,000 holidaymakers affected  by Thomas Cook insolvency. Over 150,000 British tourists have been left stranded all over the world. This, in turn, makes the UK deal with the biggest peacetime repatriation in its history. According to the UK Civil […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute Latvian airline airBaltic on September 21, 2019 in Riga welcomed its 20th Airbus A220-300 jet, registered as YL-AAT, thus finalizing the original Airbus A220-300 order. By the end of 2019, airBaltic plans to have a total of 22 Airbus A220-300 aircraft in its fleet of which two will be already from the additional order that […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute Thomas Cook, a British tour operator, has filed for insolvency. After the Company’s stakeholders and proposed new money providers did not succeed in reaching mutual agreement, the company “had no choice but to take steps to enter into compulsory liquidation with immediate effect”. This failure is considered to be the biggest ever of the UK […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute XL Airways, a French airline specializing in long-haul flights, has suspended tickets’ sale reporting financial problems. Yet another European airline on the verge of collapsed. XL Airways operates a fleet of four Airbus A330 widebodies. For some time already the airline has been in search for potential buyers, although unsuccessfully. “Due to its financial difficulties, […]

Reading Time: 2 minutes Virgin Atlantic (Virgin) announced Wednesday, September 18, that it wants to add 80 new routes and 84 destinations to its current network once the third London Heathrow runway is completed, a major increase to its current 19 destinations. While the runway is not scheduled for completion until 2026, for Virgin to acquire the necessary additional […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute Travelers flying with SAS can now voluntarily choose to buy biofuel and so help reduce climate-affecting CO2 emissions by up to 80 percent. The new non-profit service aims to pioneer a large-scale and competitive market for biofuel within aviation, in line with SAS’ sustainability strategy. SAS is now launching a new ancillary product that gives […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute Avia Solutions Group has appointed the former Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs, and the former EU Ambassador to Afghanistan and Russia Ambassador to the USA, Mexico and the United Kingdom Vygaudas Usackas as the Member of the Board of Directors at Avia Solutions Group. As the member of the Board of Directors, the Ambassador Vygaudas […]