Onex Corporation has received approval from the Minister of Transport (Canada) on the basis that the proposed acquisition of WestJet by Onex does not raise public interest issues as related to national transportation. WestJet and Onex entered into a definitive agreement on May 12, 2019, for the proposed acquisition of WestJet by Onex under a
Airways New Zealand, a leading commercial Air Navigation Service Provider (ANSP), and the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) Lebanon officially opened an advanced air traffic control (ATC) simulation facility – future-proofing ATC training in Lebanon for decades to come. Airways International, the commercial arm of the New Zealand air navigation service provider, has completed
The winner of the concession procedure for the operator of duty free shops at Václav Havel Airport Prague is Lagardére Travel Retail. It will acquire a contract to lease 24 business units with a total area of 4,372 m². On the other hand, Prague Airport will acquire a globally strong duty free operator who will
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) will award US$495 million in airport infrastructure grants, the second allotment of the total US$3.18 billion in Airport Improvement Program (AIP) funding for airports across the United States. “This significant investment in airport improvements at 13 airports in Florida will fund construction and rehabilitation projects that will help maintain high
Lufthansa Systems and GE Aviation are the first providers in the airline market to offer a solution that allows for the inflight synchronization of the flight plan between the GE Aviation flight management system (FMS) and Lufthansa Systems pilot applications directly on-aircraft. The first demonstration of the connected FMS using operational use cases will be
Air BP and China National Aviation Fuel Group (CNAF) have signed a joint venture agreement to operate a general aviation fuel business in Southwest China, covering Sichuan Province, Guizhou Province and Chongqing Municipality. The agreement was signed by Alan Wilson, China strategic project director of Air BP and Shi Haiping, executive director of CNAF GA
TRU Simulation + Training has released that long-time, Istanbul-based customer International Flight Training Center, had signed a letter of intent for two new full flight simulators, a 737 MAX and A320 FFS, further growing the relationship between the two companies. IFTC currently operates five TRU-built simulators, two A320 FFS installed in Istanbul, three B737NG FFS
A Dutch-led Joint Investigation Team (JIT), including Belgium, Australia, Malaysia, the Netherlands and Ukraine, has identified and charged four men with murder for the shooting down of Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 over rebel-held eastern Ukraine in 2014. Three of the four are Russian nationals – Igor Girkin (also known as Igor Strelkov), Sergey Dubinskiy and
ICBC Aviation Leasing and GA Telesis have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) at the Paris Air Show to agree on building a marketing alliance in assisting airlines in their fleet renewal activities by trading out of mature or end of life aircraft and in providing spare engine financing and leasing solutions. “As a world-leading
Boeing will invest US$1 million in Brazil’s efforts to establish a sustainable aviation fuel industry. The investment will focus on initiatives that maximize social, economic and environmental benefits to local communities engaged in the development of feedstock that can be used to produce sustainable aviation fuel (SAF). In 2018, the company provided an additional US$1
