A union dispute has kept many of the pilots who once flew Aer Lingus‘ BAe 146s grounded since the airline withdrew the aircraft late last year. Aer Lingus withdrew the six BAe 146s in a fleet simplification move. About 46 former BAe 146 flight crew have been at home on […]
Finnish Avro RJ operator Blue1 resumed domestic service when it launched regular flights between Helsinki and Oulu on 5 April. The airline had once had an extensive domestic network as Air Botnia, but since its takeover by SAS in 1998 has concentrated on feeding the Scandinavian carrier at its hubs […]
Italian airline Meridiana has begun to replace its four Firenze-based BAe 146-200s with Airbus A319s. The first A319 was placed into service in April, replacing 146s on the routes to London, Barcelona, and Catania. Additional examples will gradually take over the other routes from Firenze as well. As they arrive, […]
National Jet Systems is operating a BAe 146 between Cairns and Port Moresby on behalf of Air Niugini. The New Guinea airline arranged for NJS to take over the route after noise regulations forced it retire the Fokker F28 it had been using at the end of March. The NJS […]
Bulgarian airline Hemus Air have acquired three BAe 146-200s from ANZ Investment Bank. Two of the aircraft had previously been used by National Jet Systems (NJS) and the third by Ansett. The first, LZ-HBA (msn E2072) arrived in Sofia on 1 April and the second, LZ-HBB (msn E2073) on 5 […]
BAe 146 operator Atlantic Airways has won a contract to carry employees for Norwegian shipyard Aker Stord, part of Norwegian construction and engineering group Aker Kvaerner. Under the contract, Atlantic Airways 146s will fly Aker Stord employees working on the Snohvit natural gas development in the Barents Sea. Flights will […]
WDL Aviation had a distinguished guest on board of one of the BAe 146s it operates on behalf of Austrian Arrows. United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan flew on board BAe 146 D-AWUE on flight OS 562 from Zürich to Vienna on 1 April. WDL’s chief pilot, Rudolf Fehlhaber, was […]
A change in regulations is forcing Swiss to suspend Avro RJ operations from Lugano airport in southern Switzerland. Lugano’s position in a mountain valley calls for a steep approach. Last 1 November, however, the Swiss Federal Office for Civil Aviation (FOCA) issued revised approach procedures which rule out operations by […]
