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[ad_1] US discounter Spirit Airlines has secured an additional $300 million in financing from debt holders as it prepares to exit Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings.  The struggling Miramar, Florida-based ultra-low-cost carrier (ULCC) disclosed in a 16 January filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission that the “exit revolving credit facility” will be available to draw upon once it emerges from financial restructuring. “The company’s use of the proceeds… shall include, among other items, working capital and other general corporate needs of the …

[ad_1] The US government has slapped economic sanctions on a top Venezuelan aviation official who also heads state-owned airline Conviasa, part of a broader move targeting officials the USA deems as enabling the illegitimate government of president Nicolas Maduro. Conviasa president Ramon Celestino Velasquez Araguayan, who has also been Venezuela’s minister of transportation since May 2023, is among eight Venezuelan officials hit with new US sanctions, the US Department of the Treasury said on 10 January. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken calls …

[ad_1] Severe winter weather is disrupting airline operations in the Southeast USA, with major carriers American Airlines, Delta Air Lines and Southwest Airlines cancelling hundreds of flights on 10 January. The US National Weather Service says that a “significant winter storm” is bringing “heavy snow and disruptive ice” across southern states, with adverse conditions expected to continue into the morning of 11 January. Flight-tracking platform FlightAware shows that American has cancelled nearly about 725 flights as of 12:00 on the East Coast, while …

[ad_1] Korean investigators’ efforts to understand the Jeju Air Boeing 737-800 crash at Muan have suffered a setback after both flight recorders failed to capture the final 4min of the accident sequence. The aircraft overran at high speed, striking the mounted localiser, while attempting a gear-up and apparently flapless landing on Muan’s runway 19 – having aborted its original approach to the opposite-direction runway 01. Only two of the 181 occupants survived the 29 December accident. Korea’s ministry of transport says that the cockpit-voice …

[ad_1] Indian Ocean carrier Maldivian is embarking on widebody operations after introducing an Airbus A330-200 to its fleet The carrier states that the twinjet represents a “significant expansion” for the airline, 25 years after it emerged with a small fleet of two aircraft. Maldivian’s A330 – fitted with 264 seats – is configured with three classes, including 18 in the business cabin and 36 in premium-economy. It was formerly operated by carriers including KLM. Powered by GE Aerospace CF6 engines, the aircraft (8Q-IAB) was …

[ad_1] Korean cargo carrier Air Incheon is seeking authorisation to open services to several US destinations from mid-2025. The expansion has emerged from its planned acquisition of Asiana Airlines’ cargo operations as part of last year’s merger between Asiana and Korean Air. Air Incheon, which was founded in 2012, started services with Boeing 737-400 freighters, introducing a 767-300ER in 2018 and subsequently a batch of 737-800s. But Asiana’s divestment of its cargo activities included freighter aircraft, slots and traffic rights, and means Air Incheon …

[ad_1] United Airlines has agreed to purchase 18 Embraer 175 regional jets from partner Mesa Airlines in a sale-leaseback deal that will raise some $230 million for the regional carrier.  Phoenix-based Mesa disclosed the deal in a 7 January filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, adding that $142 million of sale proceeds will be allocated to paying off the carrier’s debt.  Mesa says that part of the deal, involving the sale of eight E175s, closed on 31 December. The remaining 10 regional …

[ad_1] Japanese investigators have disclosed that a De Havilland Dash 8-300’s departure from Tokyo Haneda was supposed to be threaded between two arriving aircraft, before it entered the runway and was fatally struck by the first of them, a Japan Airlines Airbus A350-900. The collision left only one survivor, the captain, from the six occupants of the Dash 8, but all 379 on board the A350 escaped with just five sustaining injuries. Japanese investigation authority JTSB has yet to reach final conclusions on …

[ad_1] White lighting on a De Havilland Dash 8 would have blended in with surrounding runway lights, rendering it difficult to see before the aircraft was struck by a landing Airbus A350 at Tokyo Haneda a year ago. Japanese investigators probing the fatal 2 January 2024 collision have conducted simulations of the A350 pilots’ cockpit view of runway 34R, pointing out that the Dash 8 was aligned with the centreline about 150m beyond the A350’s aiming point. The simulations, carried out in April …

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[ad_1] Middle Eastern carrier Emirates is to place Airbus A350s to the Gulf states of Bahrain and Kuwait, meaning it will serve one of the airline’s shortest routes. It will operate both services from Dubai beginning on 8 January. The Dubai-Bahrain sector is just 260nm and has a flight time of 1h 20min, while the distance from Dubai to Kuwait is about 460nm with a flight time of 1h 50min. Emirates says it will use the A350-900 on two of its daily Bahrain flights, …

[ad_1] Azerbaijan’s presidential office has given the clearest indication yet that the Embraer 190 which crashed in Aktau suffered considerable flight-control damage as a result of an external detonation in Russian airspace. The office has detailed a telephone call between Russian president Vladimir Putin and Azerbaijani president Ilham Aliyev on 28 December during which, it states, Putin “expressed his apologies” over the “tragic incident”. Aliyev told Putin that the Azerbaijan Airlines aircraft suffered a “complete loss of control” as a result of “external …