Qatar Airways Cargo plans to launch a major expansion into South America, with four new cities being added to the division’s network of freighter destinations.

Virgin Atlantic chairman Richard Branson is to retain control of the airline through his Virgin Group, scrapping plans to sell 31% of the carrier to Air France/KLM.

Nigeria has become the 22nd state to ratify ICAO’s unruly passenger regulation, Montreal Protocol 2014 (MP14), fulfilling the requirements for the treaty to become effective Jan. 1, 2020.

In a long-expected move, Lufthansa Group has made senior executive changes reflecting the difficulties it has had in union relations and the turnaround of its Eurowings LCC subsidiary.

African LCC fastjet needs to restructure by February 2020 if it is to continue as a going concern, and the disposal of fastjet Zimbabwe is increasingly an element of the overarching company’s survival plan.

Long-haul LCC Norwegian Air Shuttle said it has been given three takeoff and three landing slots at London’s Heathrow Airport for the summer 2020 season but did not disclose what routes the slots could be used for.

South African Airways (SAA) “cannot continue in its current form” and will need a “radical restructuring,” the country’s minister of public enterprises Pravin Gordhan said Dec. 2.

With its merger with Vanilla Air complete, Japanese LCC Peach Aviation is now looking to hire more pilots while expanding its capacity and network.