Swedish airline Braathens Regional Airlines (BRA) has indicated that it intends to withdraw its Avro RJs from service during 2020. Although the airline had ordered Bombardier CS100s and CS300s (now Airbus A220-100s and -300s) as replacements, this order has been repeatedly pushed back and now looks unlikely to ever be […]
CityJet has sold another Avro RJ85 to Conair. The Canadian air tanker operator had already acquired EI-RJH (msn E2345) in February. Now she has also taken EI-RJX (msn E2372). She operated her last service for CityJet, AF171 from Paris CDG to Dublin, on 5 April. By then, her titles had […]
Operations by Royal Air‘s trio of Avro RJ100s at Clark International Airport were suspended for two days after a 6.1 magnitude earthquake struck the area on 22 April. An initial 24-hour closure was extended for an additional day to allow for repairs to airport infrastructure. Affected passengers were offered the […]
Greece’s Sky Express is wet-leasing BAe 146-200 D-AWUE (msn E2050) from WDL Aviation to cover for maintenance on its ATR72s. D-AWUE had been operating in France, for Air France and Hop! She flew her last flight for Hop!, AS3450/3451 from Lille to Toulouse and back, on 19 April, then returned […]
Runway work at RAF Northolt have forced No.32 (The Royal) Squadron to transfer its four BAe 146s to RAF Benson. Northolt’s main runway is closed for resurfacing and other work. The 146s are expected to remain at Benson about six months. The 146s are no strangers at Benson, having been […]
After several months of inactivity, Bolivia’s Transporte Aéreo Militar (TAM) resumed operations on 3 April in its new guise as TAM Empresa Pública (TAMep). The airline was awarded a provisional AOC in late March. At present, the airline’s sole aircraft is Avro RJ70 CP-3106 (msn E1252). She operated TAMep’s inaugural service, […]
