Chile’s Aerovías DAP has taken delivery of a former Swiss Avro RJ100 acquired through lessor Tronos. RJ100 HB-IXS had operated her last service for Swiss on 16 October, and was registered as T7-IXS in 19 October. She departed on her delivery flight to Chile on the following day. During the […]
As anticipated, virtual airline Air Djibouti is adding a BAe 146 that will operate alongside a Boeing 737-400 wet-leased from VVB Aviation Malta. South African airline Fair Aviation will operate BAe 146-300 ZS-SOR (msn E3155) on an ACMI basis on behalf of Air Djibouti. ZS-SOR had previously been operating for […]
Lessor Tronos operated former Swiss Avro RJ100 T7-IXS (msn E3280 ex HB-IXS) to St. Helena airport in the south Atlantic on 21 October. The flight was intended to test the RJ100’s suitability for operations at the new St. Helena airport, which was built with funding from the government of the […]
Now that it is taking delivery of Bombardier CS100s, Swiss has resumed the process of retiring its Avro RJ100s. The airline had already retired four examples by September 2015. All four have since been parted out. Following the delivery of its first CS100, RJ100 HB-IXQ (msn E3282) was withdrawn in […]
Avro RJ100 VH-NJH (msn E3301) was ferried back to the United Kingdom in October. She had been in storage at Adelaide since being withdrawn from use by Cobham Aviation Services in April. She left Adelaide on her ferry flight on 14 October, reaching Southend on 18 October and then Cranfield on the following day. […]
After first applying small stickers to the BAe 146QTs it acquired from TNT, ASL Airlines Spain has now started applying full titles. EC-MID (msn E3168) was noted wearing full titles on 7 October, EC-MFT on 13 October, and EC-MCK (msn E3168) on 17 October. Both had previously been all white. […]
Cobham Aviation Services has won another contract to provide Fly-In, Fly-Out (FIFO) services, this time from new company Blackham Resources – Matilda Operations Pty. Under the new contract, Cobham began operating a 71-seat BAe 146-100 twice a week from Perth to the Wiluna gold mining site in Western Australia on 20 […]
