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Weststar Aviation Services (Kuala Lumpur Subang) has secured MYR2 billion (about $504 million) in syndicated financing from AmBank Group through AmBank Islamic Berhad, earmarked to fund aviation-services growth. The deal underscores continued capital-market support for the region’s aviation-services capacity build-out.
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By ch-aviation: Several daily Operator News updates covering all Operator Route Network changes, strategic fleet developments and aircraft orders, start-ups and bankruptcies, mergers and acquisitions and partnerships and alliances.
Aviation Source
• Len Varley
By Aviation Source: South African Airways CEO Prof. John Lamola has tendered his resignation and will step down from the key role effective from the end of April.
Air Data News
• Ricardo Meier
By Air Data News: Icelandair is investigating one of its pilots after a Boeing 757-200 performed an unauthorized low-altitude flyover of the town of Vestmannaeyjar during a scheduled flight from Frankfurt to Keflavik.
PaxEx.Aero
• Seth Miller
By PaxEx.Aero: Virgin Atlantic will launch its Starlink inflight Internet service from next month. The carrier expects its first A350 to be fitted and in service in May 2026.
AeroTime
• Gabriele Petrauskaite
By AeroTime: An USAF Lockheed C-130 Hercules sustained significant structural damage in Ireland after an individual breached airside security and attacked the aircraft.
Paddle Your Own Kanoo
• Mateusz Maszczynski
By Paddle Your Own Kanoo: The Spanish low-cost airline Volotea has reportedly started to demand payment of an additional fuel surcharge from passengers who have already booked and paid for their flight tickets.
Runway Girl
• Mary Kirby
By Runway Girl: Will the introduction of fast inflight Wi-Fi and the shift in how we consume media usher in a BYOL model for IFE? Stakeholders weigh in.
Paddle Your Own Kanoo
• Mateusz Maszczynski
Reuters
• Abhijith Ganapavaram, Allison Lampert
