South Africa’s Airlink has announced plans to merge with Safair. The two airlines would retain their separate identities, but be owned by the same company. Airlink operates 12 Avro RJ85s, but has begin to replace them with Embraer E-Jets. Safair was the first South African airline to operate BAe 146s, operating […]
The operations of South Africa’s Airlink were thrown into disarray after its fleet of Jetstream was grounded by the country’s Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) on December 23. The grounding order followed a string of incidents with the type. The airline’s BAe 146 fleet continues to operate, as do its Embraer […]
Irish Avro RJ operator CityJet has been adding more former Mesaba Avro RJ85s to its 23-strong fleet. On 3 October, it took delivery of EI-WXA (msn E2310 ex N503XJ) on lease from South Africa’s Safair. Then on 22 November it took delivery of EI-RJZ (msn E2326 ex N512XJ), which it […]
South African airline Safair is operating one of its Avro RJ85s on behalf of Airlink. Avro RJ85 ZS-ASW (msn E2313 ex N505XJ) is one of several former Mesaba RJ85s that Safair has acquired. She was delivered to South Africa in late 2007. Previous news items on Airlink:
South African airline Safair is reported to have acquired six former Mesaba Avro RJ85s. Safair is no stranger to the BAe 146 series, having operated a series 100QT freighter and a 200QC convertible freighter between 1991 and 1995. The first RJ85 for the airline, N505XJ (msn E2313) left Marana in […]
