Gadair European Airlines, a Madrid-based start-up, has agreed to buy majority stakes in Cubana and Ecuatoriana. Gadair plans to enter aircraft, crew, maintenance and insurance contracts with both airlines, as well as with two carriers in Africa, using a number of 767 widebodies leased from Boeing. Cubana is Cuba’s flag carrier; Ecuatoriana has had no aircraft for six years.
Source: Airline Business
HAECO has extended a series of MRO contracts with long-time customer China Airlines, covering the Taiwanese carrier’s fleet of Boeing 777 aircraft.
Delta Air Lines executives flag the role that its MRO business has played in ensuring the reliability of older aircraft in its own fleet, but note the focus will start to switch toward managing aircraft retirements and developing third party business.
One of Southwest Airlines’ Boeing 737-800s has returned to Denver, its departure airport, after one engine suffered an apparent cowl-door detachment. The aircraft had been operating the WN3695 service to Houston on 7 March. It had taken off from Denver’s runway 25. But air-ground communications indicate that the crew sought ...
