Over six months after taking delivery of a BAe 146, new Dominican Republic operator Sol Airlines has so far failed to get off the ground. The airline being established by Brazilian investors, intended to begin operations in July 2007, and operate as many as five BAe 146s, as well as […]
BAE Systems Regional Aircraft has announced several lease extensions for BAe 146s and Avro RJs in its portfolio. In the largest transaction, Sweden’s Malmö Aviation has signed long-term lease extensions on their entire fleet of nine Avro RJ100s (SE-DSO msn E3221, SE-DSP msn E3242, SE-DSR msn E3244, SE-DSS msn E3245, […]
BAE Systems Regional Aircraft has confirmed that the Avro RJ100 sold in November 2007 to an undisclosed Middle Eastern customer for VVIP use has been acquired by the Bahrain Defence Force. aircraft. The aircraft, former Blue1 RJ100 OH-SAM (msn E3386) was delivered to the Bahrain Defence Force during January, and […]
German BAe 146 operator WDL Aviation is operating three BAe 146s on behalf of SAS, on routes previously served by that airline’s Bombardier Q400s. SAS grounded their Q400s in October 2007 following a series of landing incidents. WDL had been due to start flying for SAS on 9 January with […]
BAE Systems Regional Aircraft’s JetSpares ‘spares by the hour’ support scored some notable successes during 2007, winning US$75 million in new business. JetSpares is a support program for the BAe 146/Avro RJ, individually customised to the need of each airline, under which BAE Systems takes care of spares inventory, logistics, […]
Flybe is to retain two of their BAe 146s to operate routes from Guernsey. The airline had announced their intention to withdraw all of their 146s by the end of February, as they are replaced by Embraer 195s and Bombardier Q400s. Already they have withdrawn all the 146s they inherited […]
German BAe 146 operator Eurowings began service from Berlin Tegel to London City on 14 January. The twice daily service is operated on behalf of Lufthansa Regional. Series 200 D-AJET (msn E2201) operated the inital flight, LH4838, arriving at the Docklands airport at 09:10 local time. Recent news items on […]
The first BAe 146 to be painted in the new colors of airDC, series 200 OO-MJE (msn E2192), was rolled out from the Sprayavia paintshop at Norwich late on 10 January. She then departed for Brussels as SN6001, landing there shortly after 22:00 local time. She will eventually become 3B-PAE, […]
BAe 146 operator Nex Aviation will operate on behalf of Irish airline Aer Arann from 1 May. At present, Nex Aviation operate a single BAe 146-200, G-TBIC (msn E2025), which is currently on lease to Flightline, but a second example will be added by May. Under a recently signed franchise […]
A Hemus Air BAe 146 LZ-HBA (msn E2072) being operated on behalf of Blue Air suffered a collapse of its nosegear while landing at Bacău on 9 January. The aircraft was arriving from Roma Fiumicino. None of the 89 passengers and crew on board were injured. Blue Air has been […]
