The first Avro RJ85 to leave Brussels Airlines‘ fleet, OO-DJK (msn E2271), departed Bruxelles for Bacău on 21 February. After hand-back maintenance, she is scheduled to be ferried directly to the United Kingdom. OO-DJK is the first of five RJ85s that the airline will return off-lease to BAE Systems this […]
Start-up Italian airline SkyTrain is planning to begin operating BAe 146s on services from the southern Italian airport of Reggio Calabria, using BAe 146s leased from Greece’s Astra Airlines. SkyTrain is a virtual airline, with flight operations being contracted to other airlines. Since first announcing its plans in mid-2010, however, […]
South Africa’s Allegiance Air appears to have shut down in January. The Lanseria-based airline, which provided BAe 146s to other airlines on an ACMI basis, lost two major contracts last year. In March it pulled three 146s from the Republic of Congo, where they had been operating for Air Congo, […]
BAE Systems has decided not to do any more speculative conversions of BAe 146s to QT freighters. The economic crisis has hit the freight market badly, substantially reducing demand for regional freighters. Although one series 300QT was placed with Cobham Aviation Services in 2010, a series 200QT converted in 2008 […]
New Zealand’s Air National, whose fleet includes a BAe 146, was grounded again on 2 February, for the second time in a year. The airline had briefly stopped flying last September after its flight operations and training manager abruptly resigned. This time the grounding was imposed by the Civil Aviation […]
Australia’s Cobham Aviation Services has exercised its options to buy two BAe 146s that it has been leasing from BAE Systems. The two 146s are series 100 VH-NJR (msn E1152) and series 300 VH-NJN (msn E3217). Both have been in Australia for almost two decades, VH-NJR having first been leased […]
The first BAe 146-200 for Korongo Airlines, OO-MJE (msn E2192), was painted in the airline’s full colors at Southend. Korongo Airlines is being established by Brussels Airlines in partnership with Georges Forrest International (GFI) and Congolese investors. OO-MJE had been intended to join AirDC, an earlier effort by Brussels Airlines […]
StarPerú is adding another BAe 146 to its fleet – its ninth example of the type. The airline purchased former Eurowings series 200 G-BTKC (msn E2184 ex D-AEWF) from BAE Systems. She is currently being prepared for delivery at Bacău, where she has been in storage since May. StarPerú currently […]
At its media briefing in London, BAE Systems Regional Aircraft announced that it is revamping its JetSpares program and that it is working on a long-term maintenance program for the Avro RJ that would allow the aircraft to keep flying for at least another 20 years. The JetSpares program offers […]
BAE Systems Regional Aircraft announced at its media briefing that Swiss had entered into leases on six Avro RJ100s in late 2010. The six aircraft involved – HB-IYV (msn E3377), HB-IYU (msn E3379), HB-IYT (msn E3380), HB-IYS (msn E3381), HB-IYR (msn E3382), and HB-IYQ (msn E3384) – are former BA […]
