Less than two months after beginning services, Italian low-fare airline Ciao Fly has suspended operations. The airline began services with a BAe 146-200 wet-leased from Air Jet on 1 July. Initial services linked Parma to London Luton. A roundtrip from Luton to Beauvais was added later, sandwiched between the flights […]
Air Wisconsin will add a new seasonal jet service from San Francisco to Aspen over the 2002-03 ski season using its BAe 146s. Air Wisconsin, which operates as United Express, also serves Aspen year-round from Denver with its 146s, and seasonally from Los Angeles. The BAe 146 and Avro RJ […]
BAe 146-300 VH-EWS (msn E3197) was the last Ansett aircraft to leave Brisbane. She had been undergoing a D check when the airline went bankrupt, and completion of the check was obviously delayed. It ultimately had to be completed in the open after the maintenance base was sold to Qantas. […]
National Jet Systems (NJS) opened a new maintenance and engineering base at Brisbane, in Queensland, on 6 August. The new facility includes a 4,250 square meter hangar, allowing up to three aircraft to be serviced at one time, a workshop, and office and storage space. NJS operate twelve BAe 146s […]
Turkish Airlines will transfer most of its Avro RJs to a new low-fare regional airline, TurkJet, which is to be established in early 2003 to carry domestic feeder traffic. The new carrier will be based in Ankara and take over most of THY’s domestic services. Unlike nationally-owned THY, TurkJet will […]