Chile’s Aerovías DAP has taken delivery of a third former Swiss Avro RJ100 acquired through lessor Tronos. The latest addition is RJ100 T7-IYY (msn E3339 ex HB-IYY). She flew her last service for Swiss on 3 April — a roundtrip from Zürich to London City as LX466/467 — and then departed […]
BVI Airways is operating Avro RJ100 VP-LWW (msn E3274) on behalf of Haiti’s Sunrise Airways. She positioned to Port-au-Prince on 18 April, immediately after returning from Curacao, bringing the BVI National Athletics Team back from the Carifta Games 2017—BVI Airways first commercial flight. She is being operated on flights to Havana, Santiago de Cuba, and […]
An investigation by Iran’s Aircraft Accident Investigation Board (AAIB) has named pilot error as the primary cause of a runway over-run by a Mahan Air Avro BAe 146-300 in June 2016. 146-300 EP-MOF (msn E3149) was arriving at Khark Island on flight W5-4525 from Ahwaz on 19 June when she over-ran Khark’s runway 13, coming […]
Canadian Avro RJ operator Summit Air is planning to open a new base at Calgary, complementing its existing base at Edmonton. The new base, which is expected to be operational by the summer, will help support Summit’s fly-in-fly-out operations on behalf of mining companies. Summit Air has been operating two Avro RJ85s […]
The Philippino Bureau of Customs (BOC) took custody of SkyJet BAe 146-100 RP-C8538 (msn E1015) on 29 March after the airline was unable to produce the paperwork proving it had paid the necessary import duties and taxes. SkyJet acquired RP-C8538 from Indonesia at the end of 2013. The airline had 15 […]
Australia’s Cobham Aviation Services has won a new fly-in, fly-out (FIFO). Under the two-year contract, Cobham will operate up to 20 flights a week between Adelaide and the OZ Minerals copper-gold mine at Prominent Hill, in northern South Australia. The flights will begin in August and will be undertaken with a mix of jets […]
Star Up, parent of Peruvian BAe 146 operator StarPerú, has signed a memorandum of understanding with Chile’s Latin American Wings (LAW) under which the two airlines would combine their operations. LAW operates four Boeing 737-300s; it had been a charter airline until recently, but launched scheduled operations in March. Under the […]
BVI Airways operated its first commercial flight with one of its Avro RJ100s on 13 April, when RJ100 VP-LWW (msn E3274) flew a charter carrying the BVI National Athletics Team to Curacao for the Carifta Games 2017. The airline hopes to start services to Miami soon, but is still awaiting authorization from the […]
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani flew on Mahan Air Avro RJ85 EP-MOQ (msn E2261) from Tehran to Semnan on 6 April. President Rouhani was visiting Semnan province for the opening ceremonies of several infrastructure, construction, and service projects, including the inauguration of the Farda car manufacturing plant. President Rouhani is up […]
KLM subsidiary KLM Cityhopper will wet lease two Avro RJ85s from CityJet beginning on 15 May. The two RJ85s will operate four flights a day from Amsterdam to London City, complementing the four flights operated by the KLM Cityhopper’s own Embraer 190s, as well as flights to Birmingham, Hamburg, Bordeaux, and Belfast […]
