South African Airways (Johannesburg) on May 1 will launch a new Washington (Dulles)-Dakar-Johannesburg route. The new route will be flown with Airbus A340-600s.
Bombardier (Toronto) has received an order for 20 CSeries airliners from Lease Corporation International Limited. LCI also secured 20 options.
Using a registration from Northwest Airlines' DC-10 past, Sikorsky S-76B N151US (msn 760310) of US Helicopter waits for its next group of passengers at JFK. Copyright Photo: Ken Petersen.
US Helicopter (New York) on March 27 resumed helicopter service from the downtown Manhattan heliport to both JFK and Newark airports.
Alaska Airlines (Seattle/Tacoma) was again forced to close ANC yesterday due to another Mount Redoubt ash clouded headed towards the Anchorage area. AS is diverting its traffic to Fairbanks.
Iraqi Airways (Baghdad) on Thursday (March 26) returned to the European Union after 19 years. The airline scheduled a weekly Baghdad-Athens-Stockholm (Arlanda) flight. However the flight was actually operated by Seagle Air’s Boeing 737-33A OM-HLB (msn 25011). The flag carrier was banned by an international embargo after Iraq invaded Kuwait in August 1990. The company plans to add scheduled flights to Germany as well as to Bahrain, Doha and destinations in India.
British Airways (London) yesterday ended its Dhaka-London route after 36 years of BOAC/British Airways service.