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At the end of this summer, Turkmenistan Airlines purchased a pair of second-hand Boeing 777-300ERs. Both of the aircraft are roughly 12-year-old ex-Cathay Pacific Airways airframes. The first of the two aircraft has now arrived in Turkmenistan’s capital Ashgabat, and the second one is expected to follow soon. Continue reading to learn more about Turkmenistan […]

At the beginning of October 2023, European Air Charter (formerly Bulgarian Air Charter) retired its last McDonnell Douglas MD-82 with what was Europe’s last scheduled flight of the type. Just a month later, Romania’s Carpatair operated its last scheduled Fokker 100 flight, bringing to an end the era of another T-tail type with rear fuselage-mounted

On December 3, 2023, Alaska Airlines and Hawaiian Air announced that they would be combining, with the former acquiring the latter. Even post-acquisition, however, the two airlines will maintain separate brands. Continue reading to learn more about the acquisition. Alaska Airlines to Buy Hawaiian Air in a $1.9 Billion Deal To acquire Hawaiian Air, Alaska

Even as the number of CRJ-200s in service with airlines around the world dwindled over the last decade and a half or so, the type remained a critical component of US regional airlines. While not necessarily a passenger favorite, the type helped bring jet service to smaller towns that would have otherwise only seen turboprops.

Back in May 2023, JAL announced it would be converting three of its Boeing 767-300ERs into freighters and restarting dedicated cargo operations for the first time in over a decade. Today, the airline announced the routes it plans to operate in the reborn JAL Cargo’s early days. Continue reading to learn more about the airline’s

With less than 300 orders across three variants, Embraer’s E-Jet E2 series has not seen as many orders so far as the manufacturer would have hoped. That said, the Brazilian manufacturer was able to add another 25 airframes to its order book for the series’s most popular variant – E195-E2 – thanks to Canada’s Porter

It is not often that a new airline gets launched in a country one lives in. As such, I have been eagerly following the journey of Toki Air, a Japanese start-up airline that intends to operate regional flights primarily out of Niigata Airport. After a number of delays in launching scheduled flights and going off

Shanghai Airlines, a wholly-owned subsidiary of China Eastern Airlines, revealed plans to launch flights between its Shanghai Pudong Airport hub and Japan’s sixth-largest city, Fukuoka. The flights are scheduled to operate from early January 2024. Continue reading to learn more about the new route. Shanghai Airlines’ Upcoming Pudong – Fukuoka Route The new route will

AirBaltic is, with over 40 airframes in service (and another 30 on order including some ordered at the recent Dubai Airshow 2023), the world’s largest operator of the Airbus A220-300. In fact, in May 2020, it retired its other aircraft types, switching to an all-A220 fleet. While most of the aircraft are in the airline’s