MRO   Middle East   Africa   Aircraft Finance & Leasing  
AeroTime • Jean Carmela Lim

Capital A’s Asia Digital Engineering (ADE) lands $100m QNB financing to scale MRO operations

Asia Digital Engineering (ADE), the MRO subsidiary of Capital A (AirAsia Group), secured a USD 100 million financing facility from QNB Group. ADE said the funding is intended to scale its maintenance capabilities and expand capacity to support both third-party airline customers and its AirAsia anchor client.

Aviation Business News • Craig Waters

ADE secures US$100m to support expansion plans

2026-05-22T03:23:53.099814-07:00
Airports   Accident   Aviation Safety & Regulation   Asia-Pacific (APAC)   Airbus A350   Airbus  
FlightGlobal • David Kaminski-Morrow

China Eastern A350 suffered brake failure before Shanghai airbridge collision: investigators

By FlightGlobal: Crew used reverse thrust to manoeuvre after 'total' loss of braking while taxiing. Preliminary investigations indicate that a China Eastern Airlines Airbus A350-900 experienced complete brake failure before colliding with a passenger airbridge at Shanghai.

2026-05-22T02:38:54.638317-07:00
Middle East   Airline Industry & Market Trends   Airlines   Qatar Airways  
NEW
Bloomberg • Danny Lee, Leen Al-Rashdan

Qatar Airways to Skip Staff Bonuses Due to Iran War Impact

By Bloomberg: Qatar Airways QCSC will skip handing out bonuses to almost 60,000 workers this year after the US-Israel war on Iran forced the carrier to cancel tens of thousands of flights and lose out on billions in revenue.

2026-05-22T04:25:35.513829-07:00
Routes   Europe   North America   Airports   Airline Industry & Market Trends   Airlines  
Aeronews • Teodor Stefan

Aeronews

By Aeronews: On May 21st, American Airlines launched 4 new routes to unlock even more access between the U.S. and Europe with new non-stop service to Budapest, Hungary (BUD) and Prague (PRG) from Philadelphia (PHL), and to Athens, Greece (ATH), and Zurich (ZRH) from Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW).

Also: Aviation24, Breitflyte and airlinergs.com
2026-05-21T23:39:31.126284-07:00
Routes   Europe   Airports   Airline Industry & Market Trends   Airlines  
ch-aviation • Dominik Sipinski

Finland's LYGG expands North Sea oil and gas charter network

By ch-aviation: LYGG (Finland) (Helsinki Vantaa) will become the first company to offer scheduled charter flights from Den Helder, an airport in northern Netherlands, as it aims to gradually expand its connections between North Sea oil and gas hubs.

Also: ch-aviation
2026-05-22T03:23:58.449317-07:00
Supply Chain   Aircraft Manufacturing (OEMs)   Aviation Safety & Regulation  
FlightGlobal • David Kaminski-Morrow

Tupolev discusses Tu-214 production demands as it outlines modernisation plans to suppliers

By FlightGlobal: Future upgrades to twinjet type set to include two-person cockpit. Russian design bureau Tupolev is continuing to work on a transition to a two-person cockpit on the Tu-214, while it tweaks other systems on the twinjet.

2026-05-22T03:24:08.998623-07:00
Satellite   PaxEx   Europe   Airlines  
Paddle Your Own Kanoo • Mateusz Maszczynski

British Airways Ultra-Fast Starlink Wi-Fi Rollout Slows to a Snails Pace: Only Five Aircraft Equipped

By Paddle Your Own Kanoo: The rollout of free ultra-fast Starlink Wi-Fi across the British Airways fleet has ground to an embarrassing halt as the airline grapples with continuing fleet reliability issues that are resulting in last-minute cancellations due to a lack of available aircraft.

2026-05-22T02:39:40.912743-07:00