Two Embraer aircraft independently suffered runway excursions at the same airport

In a rare and concerning series of events, two Embraer aircraft experienced runway excursions at the same airport in Tanzania, East Africa, within hours of each other. The incidents occurred at Kikoboga Airstrip, triggering investigations by the Aircraft Accident Investigation Branch under the Ministry of Transport. The first incident involved a United Air Zanzibar plane […]

Finnair Agrees to Lease Three Embraer 170s to Aeroméxico Connect

Finnair has contracted to lease three Embraer 170s to the Mexican airline Aeroméxico Connect. All three of the Embraer 170 regional jets are owned by Finnair, which was previously leasing one of the aircraft to Honeywell. This aircraft will be delivered to Aeroméxico Connect this month. The two remaining Embraer 170s will be delivered to Aeroméxico Connect in June […]

Azul Paints New Embraer 195 Pink for Breast Cancer-Prevention Campaign

Azul Linhas Aéreas Brasileiras, Embraer and the Brazilian Federation of Philanthropic Institutions in Support of Breast Health (FEMAMA) have united in a breast cancer-prevention campaign which has seen a newly delivered Embraer 195 for Azul painted in a pink color scheme. The objective of the campaign is to raise awareness regarding the importance of early […]

China’s Hebei Airlines Orders Five More Embraer 190s

At the Farnborough International Airshow 2012, China’s Hebei Airlines has ordered five more Embraer 190s, for delivery by the end of 2013. The five Embraer 190 jets will join two delivered to the carrier last December and in service with Hebei Airlines since January. Hebei Airlines had previously committed to take another eight Embraer 190s but required Chinese […]

Ukraine’s Dniproavia orders 10 Embraer 190s, Options Five

Ukrainian Aviation Group Alliance member Dniproavia has placed an order for 10 Embraer 190s and has taken options on another five. Dniproavia will add the aircraft to 25 ERJ-145LRs it will have in service this year, to become the largest operator of Embraer regional jets in Eastern Europe. Dniproavia will operate the Embraer 190s in […]

Copa Airlines Plans Panama City-Brasilia Service from June

Panama’s Copa Airlines will begin nonstop service four times a week between Panama City and Brazil’s capital Brasilia on June 18. Brasilia will be Copa Airlines’ sixth Brazilian destination and its 56th destination overall. “Copa Airlines’ new nonstop Brasilia service demonstrates our commitment to establishing more routes to this important Latin American country and to continue uniting […]

BA CityFlyer Receives First E-Jet for London City Airport Ops

British Airways has received the first of six Embraer 170 regional jets it has on order. The airline took delivery of the aircraft on September 3 at Embraer’s headquarters in São José dos Campos in Brazil. Configured with 76 seats in a single-class layout, the aircraft will be operated from the 4,984-foot-runway, steep-approach London City […]

Air Lease Corp Receives Its First ATR 72-600, for Operation by Brazil’s TRIP

Los Angeles-based lessor Air Lease Corporation (ALC) has taken delivery of its first ATR 72-600 turboprop regional airliner, which is to be leased by Brazilian carrier TRIP Linhas Aéreas. Founded by former ILFC CEO Steven Udvar-Hazy, Air Lease Corporation has ordered 12 ATR 72-600s and taken options on eight more. According to ATR, among the reasons ALC […]

InterCaribbean Airways to Expand with Regional Jets

Fast-growing regional carrier InterCaribbean Airways, which is based at Providenciales International Airport in the Turks and Caicos Islands, plans to begin expanding its network significantly later this year by adding its first regional jets. Speaking at the Caribbean Aviation Meetup conference in Sint Maarten last week, Trevor Sadler, InterCaribbean Airways’ CEO, revealed that the airline […]

American Eagle Announces Weekend Chicago-Pensacola Flights

American Airlines’ sister regional carrier American Eagle Airlines is starting nonstop weekend service between Chicago O’Hare International Airport (ORD) and Pensacola Gulf Coast Regional Airport (PNS) on June 12. Eagle will operate the service, which will operate on both Saturdays and Sundays, with 50-seat Embraer ERJ-145 jets. “American Eagle is pleased to reintroduce weekend service between […]

Lufthansa Group Orders 48 Jets in Deals Valued at Nearly $4.7B

Lufthansa Group’s supervisory board has approved orders for 40 Airbus aircraft and eight Embraer 195s, with the Airbus aircraft destined for Lufthansa, group subsidiary airlines Swiss International Air Lines and Germanwings and the Embraer 195s to go to Lufthansa Regional. Deliveries of the aircraft will begin in 2012, according to Lufthansa, which values the overall […]

AeroSvit Ukrainian Airlines Receives Its First Boeing 737-800

AeroSvit Ukrainian Airlines has taken delivery of its first Boeing 737-800 jetliner. The Ukrainian carrier has a total of seven Boeing 737-800 jets and four 737-900ERs on order from Boeing. “Delivery of the first Next Generation 737 out of 11 airplanes that we have arranged to deliver marks the beginning of our airline’s narrow body fleet renewal,” […]

Latin America’s Avianca-TACA and Copa Airlines to Join Star Alliance

Latin American carriers Avianca-TACA and Copa Airlines are to become member airlines of Star Alliance, following the unanimous approval by the alliance’s Chief Executive Board (CEB) of both airlines’ applications. We revealed on October 27, 2009 that Star Alliance was in discussions with both Copa Airlines and Avianca-TACA over potential membership in the alliance. However,  Star […]

Flights on Silver Airways Now Eligible for TrueBlue Frequent-Flyer Points

The addition of Silver Airways as a TrueBlue frequent-flyer partner allows travelers to earn TrueBlue points on Silver’s network of routes throughout Florida and… Silver Airways and JetBlue Airways have expanded their interline agreement, with Silver Airways becoming a partner in JetBlue’s TrueBlue frequent-flyer program. The addition of regional carrier Silver Airways as a TrueBlue frequent-flyer partner […]