After donating her useful parts to help keep North Cariboo Air‘s Avro RJ100s flying, former Atlantic Airways RJ85 OY-RCD (msn E2235) has found a task to keep her busy in her retirement, by serving as a cabin trainer. She had arrived in Calgary on 11 December 2013. She was gradually stripped of useful parts […]
Avro RJ100 OY-RCC (msn E3357) flew her last flight for Atlantic Airways — a Vágar-Trondheim round trip — on 22 August. Later that day, she was ferried to Malmö Sturup to begin a lease to Malmö Aviation. She had already been operating frequently for the Swedish carrier since May, alternating […]
Atlantic Airways has agreed to lease out its last Avro RJ100, OY-RCC (msn E3357), to Malmö Aviation from the end of August. Her departure will bring to an end Atlantic Airways’s BAe 146/Avro RJ operations, leaving the airline with a fleet composed of three Airbus A319s as well as various […]
Canada’s North Cariboo Air has taken delivery of the first of two Avro RJ100s. G-BZAZ (msn E3369) had been in storage at Kemble since she was returned off-lease by BA CityFlyer in May 2010. After pre-delivery maintenance by Chevron Technical Services, she was flown to Hurn on 25 September for […]
Chile’s Aerovías DAP took delivery of its first Avro RJ85, on lease from Atlantic Airways. RJ85 OY-RCE (msn E2233) flew her last service for Atlantic Airways on 23 December. She then departed Vagar on 28 December, finally arriving in Santiago on 31 December. After a test-flight on 9 January, she […]
Malmö Aviation has arranged for Atlantic Airways to operate an Avro RJ100 on its behalf, while one of its own RJ100s undergoes repairs. Malmö RJ100 SE-DSO suffered damage to its wing from an impact with a ground vehicle at Malmö Sturup on 12 April. To cover for her, Atlantic RJ100 […]
The Norwegian Accident Investigation Board Norway (AIBN) has published the final report into the crash of Atlantic Airways BAe 146-200 OY-CRG (msn E2075) on 10 October 2006. OY-CRG was destroyed in a fire after over-running the runway at Stord, Norway, with four fatalities among the twelve passengers and four crewmembers […]
Atlantic Airways‘ Avro RJ100 OY-RCC (msn E3357) was rolled out at Manchester in a new company color scheme on February 29. She had recently been at Southend for maintenance, and ferried to Manchester on February 21. The new color scheme is being introduced to mark the imminent delivery of Atlantic […]
Although Blue1 retired all their Avro RJ85s at the beginning of September, the type has not disappeared from the airline’s network, as an Atlantic Airways RJ85 has been wetleased to cover some routes. RJ85 OY-RCE (msn E2233) arrived in Helsinki on 6 September, and entered service the following day. OY-RCD […]
Atlantic Airways operated its last service from London City on behalf of BA CityFlyer on 29 June. BA CityFlyer contracted Atlantic Airways to operate an Avro RJ85 on its behalf in early May, to cover for the late delivery of an Embraer 190. Atlantic Airways first provided RJ85 OY-RCE (msn […]
