Avro RJ85 HB-IXF (msn E2226) of Crossair was the first Avro RJ re-painted in the new Swiss colors, by Lufthansa Technik in Hamburg, and returned to Zürich on February 27. Recent news items on Swiss: Recent news items on Crossair:
Italian Avro RJ operator Azzurra Air is ending its franchise agreement with Alitalia, which had seen it operating as Alitalia Express for the last few years. The franchise agreement will end on 31 March, and will be replaced by a much looser code-share agreement. Azzurra plans to continue scheduled flights […]
Delta Air Transport (DAT) has announced that it is adopting the name SN Brussels Airlines. The change marks the culmination of efforts to build a new Belgian national airline from the former subsidiary of defunct SABENA. The rather awkard new name combines SABENA’s long-established “SN” code with the name of […]
As a result of British Airways‘s “Future Size and Shape” review, Manx will lose its identity on 1 September and adopt the parent airline’s corporate identity. Manx was acquired by British Airways in 2001, along with sister airline British Regional Airlines (BRAL), but had remained separate. BRAL is being merged […]
bmi regional (formerly British Midland Commuter) lost its contract to operate five BAe 146-200s on behalf of Lufthansa, but continues to operate the type. All five 146s were expected to be returned to lessors when the Lufthansa contract ended, and three were in fact flown to Exeter for maintenance and […]
In an effort to restore it’s loss-making Gatwick operations to profitability, British Airways is planning to move the sixteen former CityFlyer Avro RJ100s to Birmingham and Manchester. At Birmingham, the RJ100s will displace eight A319s that will move to Heathrow, while four 737s will move from Manchester to Gatwick. The […]
French BAe 146 operator Air Jet is leasing a BAe 146-300, and negotiating for another. The two aircraft in question are former National Jet Italia (NJI) series 300s which are currently in storage at Exeter. The first 146 will join Air Jet in March. Assuming negotiations are concluded successfully, the […]
Air Canada Regional airlines AirBC and Air Nova are to continue flying their BAe 146s. Air Canada had announced that all ten series 200s operated by the two airlines would be parked as part of the airline’s post-11 September cutbacks, along with all the Fokker F28s operated by Canadian Regional. […]
In the early 1990s, pictures of lines of BAe 146s stored in the desert were a major embarrassment for BAe. So when Airclaims data showed 45 BAe 146s as being parked recently, it was natural to fear that the bad old days were back. The numbers, however, are not quite […]
