The island of Mallorca looks set to renew its long acquaintance with the Boeing 717 as start-up charter airline Volotea Airlines took delivery of its first aircraft, a former Mexicana Click example (current reg N923ME, serial 55185) at Palma on 20 December 2012. The carrier seems very likely to target...
The Laotian start-up carrier, previously known as Phongsavanh Airlines, is planning to launch scheduled services this month. Four times daily services between Vientiane and Bangkok are expected to be operated by two recently acquired Boeing 737-400s. This follows the delivery earlier this month of its...
OLT (aka OLT Ostfriesische Lufttransport GmbH ) launched jet services from Bremen earlier this month (December 2011) under new OLT Express branding. The services are operated using two Fokker 100s (reg D-AOLG, serial 11265 and D-AOLH / 11452). A new logo and dedicated website has been commissioned to...
After being founded in 2009 to operate a helicopter shuttle service across the Straits of Gibraltar from Andalusia to Tangier in Morocco, the Helitt Aeronautical Group's start-up airline, Helitt Líneas Aéreas, finally operated its inaugural passenger flight from Malaga to the Spanish...
The new Icelandic low-cost carrier, established by a group of investors led by Skúli Mogensen, is planning to launch services from Reykjavik on 1 June 2012. The airline plans to initially serve 12 cities in Denmark, France, Germany, Poland, Spain, Switzerland and the UK with a fleet of two leased...
The Madrid based start-up airline was established on 25 August 2011 by a group led by former Air Madrid director Julio Martinez. The carrier is planning to launch transatlantic charter and scheduled services between Spain and South America from the second half of 2012, with a fleet of Airbus A340-343Xs...
Mongolian Airlines is reported to have taken delivery, on lease from Nordic Aviation Capital A/S, on 10 November 2011 of a Fokker 50 (reg JU-8881, serial 20183 ). The question arising is which Mongolian carrier is going to operate the aircraft, which displays a previously unseen colour scheme unlike...