August 16, 2023News

DAE And CALC Reach Agreement For 64 Boeing 737 Max Jets

Dubai Aerospace Enterprise (DAE) confirms that an affiliate has inked an agreement to acquire the rights, interests, and obligations to 64 Boeing 737 Max aircraft from a subsidiary of China Aircraft Leasing Group Holdings Limited (CALC). The count includes units of 737-8, 737-9 and 737-10 derivatives. The delivery of the aeroplanes will be completed by 2026.

With this acquisition of aeroplanes, the percentage of new-gen aircraft in DAE’s fleet will increase from 50 to 66 per cent. Also, DAE’s owned, managed, committed, and mandated-to-manage aircraft fleet will bump to 550, valued at nearly USD 20 billion. The UAE-based firm says the transaction with CALC will likely be completed in the third quarter of this year.

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May 10, 2024

Air India Announces More Flights To Three Cities In Europe

Planning a trip to Europe this summer? You might want to consider an additional carrier that can take you there. Air India, which presently operates direct flights to six European cities, has announced additional services for three of those destinations.

From June 22, 2024, the airline will begin operating daily non-stop flights from Delhi to Amsterdam Schiphol (up from four times weekly) and Delhi to Milan Malpensa (up from five times weekly). Furthermore, Air India will operate an extra service between Delhi and Copenhagen, bumping the weekly frequency to five. It’ll operate on Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays.

Earlier this month, the airline confirmed that from June 16, 2024, it would start a flight service between Delhi and Zurich. This will operate four times weekly.

The increased frequency of flights to the three European cities means Air India will fly 80 weekly services to mainland Europe. Besides the four mentioned above, the carrier also operates flights to Frankfurt, Paris and Vienna. Air India uses a two-class Boeing 787 Dreamliner on all European flights. The aircraft boasts 18 flat beds in Business Class and 236 Economy seats.

May 8, 2024

airBaltic Launches Three New Flights From Riga

As part of its 2024 summer season, Latvian airline airBaltic has launched three new flights from its primary hub, Riga. All three are direct flights to Skopje, Chisinau and Pristina. The carrier will fly two weekly flights to the three cities mentioned above.

Skopje is the capital of North Macedonia, and the flight here from Riga will take about 2 hours and 46 minutes. The nonstop service from Riga to Chisinau, Moldova’s capital, will take 2 hours and 30 minutes. Lastly, the flight time between Riga and Pristina, the capital of Kosovo, should take about 2 hours and 50 minutes.

airBaltic aims to offer 15 new routes from the Baltics and Tampere during the summer season. All flights will be operated on an Airbus A220-300.

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