Tag Archives: Airliners

Flybe is interested in bidding for bmi

Copyright Photo: Antony J. Best.  Please click on photo for more photos.

Copyright Photo: Antony J. Best. Please click on photo for more photos.

Flybe (Exeter) has now signaled it is interested in possibly bidding for bmi and the valuable London Heathrow slots.

News link:

business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/transport/

article6850810.ece

Air Charter Express is now Meridian Airways

McDonnell Douglas DC-8-63 (F) 9G-AXD (msn 45927) displays the new identity at Ostend/Brugge.  Copyright Photo: Rainer Bexten.

McDonnell Douglas DC-8-63 (F) 9G-AXD (msn 45927) displays the new identity at Ostend/Brugge. Copyright Photo: Rainer Bexten.

Air Charter Express (Accra and Ostend/Brugge) has changed its name again, this time it is Meridian Airways.

Canadian North cuts Yellowknife flights

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Copyright Photo: TMK Photography. Please click on photo for full view, information and other photos.

Canadian North (Yellowknife) is cutting some flights from Yellowknife due to increased competition. The carrier will drop the Yellowknife-Calgary route on October 10 and the Yellowknife-Hay River route on October 25.

News link:

www.cbc.ca/canada/north/story/2009/09/24/cdn-north-cuts.html?ref=rss

Pinnacle’s pilots vote against new contract

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Copyright Photo: Bruce Drum. Please click on photo for more photos.

Pinnacle Airlines’ (Memphis) pilots, represented by ALPA, have failed to ratify an agreement to amend the current contract.

Press release:

finance.yahoo.com/news/Pinnacle-Airlines-Pilot-iw-414954069.html?x=0&.v=1

Airlink loses Jetstream 41 ZS-NRM at Durban

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Copyright Photo: Jay Selman. Please click on photo for full view, information and other photos.

News link:

www.mg.co.za/article/2009-09-24-aircraft-crashlands-south-of-durban

i Fly’s first airplane is painted at Miami

i Fly (Moscow-Vnukovo) is the latest new charter airline in Russia that is planning to add four Boeing 757-200s. The first, ex-KrasAir Boeing 757-256 EI-DUD (msn 26249), has been painted at Miami in this attractive color scheme.

Fresh out of the paint shop at MIA, EI-DUD heads to the runway.  Copyright Photo: Robert Collazo.

Fresh out of the paint shop at MIA, EI-DUD heads to the runway. Copyright Photo: Robert Collazo.

JAL asks for a public bailout

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Copyright Photo: Nick Dean. Please click on photo for full view, information and other photos.

JAL-Japan Airlines (Tokyo-Haneda) has asked for a public bailout to save the flag carrier.

News link:

www.reuters.com/article/marketsNews/idCNT3855820090924?rpc=44

DHL Air places first two 767-300Fs in service

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Copyright Photo: Keith Burton. Please click on photo for full view, information and other photos.

DHL Air (East Midlands) inaugurated Boeing 767-300 ERF freighter service on September 22 between Leipzig and New York (JFK) with the first two (of six) new 767-3JHFs (G-DHLE and G-DHLF).

finance.yahoo.com/news/DHL-Enhances-Transatlantic-bw-1716968121.html?x=0&.v=1

Insel Air to interline with US Airways

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Copyright Photo: Wade DeNero. Please click on photo for more photos.

Insel Air (Curacao) has added a McDonnell Douglas DC-9-82 (MD-82) and will interline with US Airways at Miami starting on October 1 in order for US Airways to offer Curacao as a destination.

Midwest Airlines to return to Fort Lauderdale

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Copyright Photo: Brian McDonough. Please click on photo for more photos.

Midwest Airlines (Milwaukee) will seasonally return to Fort Lauderdale/Hollywood on December 17 (through April 19) from Milwaukee. The reinstated route will be flown as a Midwest Connect flight with Embraer ERJ 170s operated by sister airline Republic Airlines (2nd) (Indianapolis). Midwest will also have Republic operate the Kansas City-Fort Myers route also from December 17 through April 19, 2010.