During the upcoming ski season, Northwest Jet Airlink operator Mesaba will complement its Minneapolis-Aspen service with a new Memphis-Aspen service. Flights from Memphis to Aspen will begin on 5 February 2000 and run until 1 April, with a single weekend flight in each direction. Minneapolis-Aspen service begins on 18 December […]
Colombia’s wretched economic conditions are forcing SAM Colombia to return its fleet of nine Avro RJ100s to BAe. SAM has been flying its RJ100s on an intensive domestic schedule linking outlying Colombian cities with Bogotá, as well as to regional destinations, since 1994. However, economic conditions in Colombia have significantly […]
KLM uk has announced the launch of buzz, its new low-cost airline brand. Like KLM uk, the new airline will be based at London Stansted and it will use eight BAe 146-300s drawn from KLM uk’s current fleet. buzz is scheduled to begin flying in early 2000, initially to Berlin, […]
Avro RJ100s OO-DWF (msn E3332) and OO-DWE (msn E3327) of SABENA were damaged in a ground collision at Brussels on 3 September. OO-DWF was being pushed back from the terminal when the tug disconnected before the pilot had started the engines, and she rolled into OO-DWE. The hydraulic circuits had […]
Luton-based BAe 146 operator Debonair entire fleet was grounded on 30 September after it ran out of cash. The low-cost airline has struggled during the three years since it began services in 1996, managing to turn a profit only once, in the last quarter of 1998, despite high load factors. […]
Titan Airways has added a second BAe 146-200QC. It acquired ZK-NZC (msn E2119) of Ansett New Zealand. She operated her last Ansett NZ service on 11 July, and departed Melbourne for England on 22 September. However, she was delayed in the Philippines by typhoon Bart and didn’t arrive at Stansted […]
Satisfied customers come back for more, and BAe was able to announce two repeat orders for Avro RJ100s at the European Regions Airline Association meeting in Paris. British Airways franchise operator CityFlyer has placed a further repeat order for two Avro RJ100s, which will bring its fleet of the type […]
Aer Lingus will begin services from Dublin to London City on 1 November. Four flights will be operated every weekday, with reduced services on weekends, using 100-seat BAe 146-300s.
Flight International is reporting that Belgian airline VLM is planning to acquire two Avro RJ85s to initiate jet services. Antwerp-based VLM currently flies Fokker 50s on services from London City to Antwerp, Rotterdam, Münich (Munchengladbach), and Luxembourg, and from Rotterdam to Manchester, Jersey, and Guernsey. VLM had hoped to acquire […]
The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has issued an Airworthiness Directive (AD 99-15-06) mandating changes to the ALF502 engines installed on the BAe 146. The AD requires that an improved fan core inlet anti-ice system be installed at the next shop visit, but no later than the end of 2002. […]
