Australia’s Pionair has put into service the first of three BAe 146-300QTs it has acquired from Germany’s WDL Aviation. BAe 146-300QT VH-SAJ (msn E3150 ex D-AJAM) was pressed into service to operate for QANTAS Freight, which was short of capacity after having parked four of its Boeing 737 Freighters because of potential defective […]
CityJet operated its annual Christmas flight on 12 December, taking a group of children from Temple Street Children Hospital and their families on a flight to the North Pole (which, airline tracking sites reveal, is located on the Irish coast, just north of Wexford!). Avro RJ85 EI-RJO (msn E2352) did the […]
Armenia Airways has launched a new route on 12 December, using BAe 146-300 EK-14601 (msn E3193). The new route to Anapa, on Russia’s Black Sea coast, will be operated twice a week, on Mondays and Thursdays. It complements the airline’s only other route, to Tehran, which was launched in June. […]
One of the CityJet Avro RJ85s left idle by the end of the airline’s contracts with Air France and Lufthansa has found new employment flying for Brussels Airlines, complementing the Bombardier CRJ 900s that CityJet usually uses on that contract. EI-RJU (msn E2367) had been parked at Dublin since her last flight for Lufthansa, […]
Chile’s Aerovías DAP has painted Avro RJ100 CC-ARN (msn E3280) in a new special color scheme, based on the Chinstrap Penguin. The design was developed in-house, based on a drawing by Marianne Klock. After painting, she made a test flight on 3 December, and then operated two roundtrips to Antarctica […]
In what may well turn out to be its last contract, WDL Aviation‘s last remaining BAe 146-200, D-AMGL (msn E2055), started a new contract operating for Air France on 3 December. After positioning to Paris Orly as AF9351, she operated AF7386/7385 and AF7388/7381, both to Nantes. She continued to fly back on forth to Nantes […]
