Airline history from 2016, this page lists 121 airline related events from 2016.
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121 dates in airline history from 2016:
January 01, 2016
HDM Luftrettung (Air ambulance), established in 1972, was retroactively integrated into DRF Luftrettung (It was was formerly known as Deutsche Rettungsflugwacht ). View airlines from Germany.
January 08, 2016
Sol Lineas Aereas, formed in 2005, ceased operations. View airlines from Argentina.
January 08, 2016
Jiangxi Airlines, founded in 2014, received its air operator's certificate. View airlines from China.
January 9th, 2016
Fly Jordan, rebranded from Solitaire Air (2010-2015) launched service operations with an Amman-Sharm El Sheikh service. View airlines from Jordan.
January 10, 2016
Fly AllWays, formed in 2014 launched its inaugural service. View airlines from Suriname.
January 11, 2016
Palma de Mallorca, Son Sant Joan based Air Europa Express began commercial flights. View airlines from Spain.
January 12th, 2016
Buffalo Airways had its AOC reinstated after losing it in Dec2015. View airlines from Canada.
January 21, 2016
Alas Uruguay, founded in Oct2013, began scheduled commercial operations. View airlines from Uruguay.
January 22, 2016
Fly AllWays commenced revenue services. View airlines from Suriname.
January 28, 2016
law (Latin American Wings) commenced revenue operations with flights from Santiago de Chile Int'l to Punta Cana via Quito Int'l.. View airlines from Chile.
January 28, 2016
Baracuda Airways operated its first flight. View airlines from Kenya.
January 29, 2016
Jiangxi Airlines commenced commercial operations on with scheduled passenger flights between Nanchang and Urumqi via Xi'an Xianyang. View airlines from China.
February 04, 2016
Albawings was awarded its Air Operator‘s Certificate (AOC) by the Albanian Civil Aviation Authority. View airlines from Albania.
February 5th, 2016
Dominican Wings commenced revenue operations with its first commercial flight (Santo Domingo Las Américas-Port of Spain) (>flycana). View airlines from Dominican Republic.
February 6th, 2016
Asian Air ceased operations. View airlines from Thailand.
February 12, 2016
City Airways finally ceased operations after an audit of the airline's maintenance programme revealed several safety violations by the Thai Department of Civil Aviation (DCA). View airlines from Thailand.
February 14, 2016
TUS Airways, established in Jun2015, started flights from Larnaca. View airlines from Cyprus.
February 15, 2016
Raven Air Island Hoppers started scheduled passenger services. View airlines from USA.
February 15, 2016
Hermes Airlines ceased operations. View airlines from Greece.
February 15, 2016
Air Mediterranee ceased operations. View airlines from France.
February 19th, 2016
Travel Air, established in Jul2010 by Sarakolok West Transport (SWT) group, ceased operations. View airlines from Papua New Guinea.
February 28th, 2016
Sverigeflyg (ii) merged with Malmo Aviation (ii) as BRA - Braathens Regional Airlines. View airlines from Sweden.
March 03, 2016
Oscar Jet started cargo operations out of Chisinau International (KIV). View airlines from Moldova.
March 06, 2016
United Airways suspended all operations. View airlines from Bangladesh.
March 07, 2016
Southern Airways Express purchased Sun Air Express for an undisclosed amount. View airlines from USA.
March 11, 2016
Air Caraïbes Simply was launched to relaunch the inter-island traffic in the Caribbean. View airlines from Guadeloupe.
March 15th, 2016
AzalJet was founded by Azerbaijan Airlines (AZAL). View airlines from Azerbaijan.
March 27, 2016
TAP Express, incorporated on 25Jul1988 & first flight on 07Jul1990 as PGA, was renamed. View airlines from Portugal.
March 28th, 2016
AzalJet, founded on 15Mar2016 by Azerbaijan Airlines (AZAL), commenced operations. View airlines from Azerbaijan.
March 29, 2016
Maluti Sky started scheduled passenger operations. View airlines from Lesotho.
April 01, 2016
Nordic Aviation was rebranded as Nordica. View airlines from Estonia.
April 03, 2016
Crystal Luxury Air restarted operations. View airlines from USA.
April 11, 2016
NAC Charter merged with Awesome Aviation to form FlyAwesome. View airlines from South Africa.
April 12, 2016
Senegal Airlines ceased operations. View airlines from Senegal.
April 12th, 2016
FlyYangYang was founded but later renamed to Fly Gangwon after being denied an operating license. View airlines from South Korea.
April 15th, 2016
Afra Airways was founded. View airlines from Burundi.
April 17th, 2016
Saudia announced the launch of a new low cost carrier in the kingdom called flyadeal. View airlines from Saudi Arabia.
April 21, 2016
Armenia Airways, formed on 25Nov2015, started limited operations. View airlines from Armenia.
April 27, 2016
Leste Aviation launched its inaugural test flight. View airlines from East Timor.
April 27, 2016
Azur Air Germany was officially registered. View airlines from Germany.
April 28th, 2016
Emes Air was created by Marcos Marcelo Mindlin, Damián Miguel Mindlin and Gustavo Mariani but did not start operations. View airlines from Argentina.
April 30th, 2016
SA Express was forced to suspend operations. View airlines from South Africa.
May 02, 2016
Nextjet Canada commenced revenue operations. View airlines from Canada.
May 03, 2016
Hummingbird Air restarted services. View airlines from US Virgin Islands.
May 05, 2016
All the LAN Airlines were renamed to LATAM when their parent company LAN Chile merged with TAM Airlines. View airlines from US Virgin Islands.
May 06, 2016
Fly Sarvaq was planning to commence operations but was renamed to Go Sarvaq prior to start. View airlines from Canada.
May 09, 2016
Air Chang'an resumed operations as an independent airline. View airlines from China.
May 13, 2016
Small Planet Airlines Germany launched operations. View airlines from Germany.
May 17, 2016
Air Lubo (ALK JSC), formed in 2012, started services. View airlines from Bulgaria.
May 18th, 2016
goTO-Nordics launched service operations. View airlines from Norway.
May 20, 2016
Bromma Business changed its name to Svenskt Industriflyg. View airlines from Sweden.
May 21, 2016
Hongtu Airlines commenced revenue operations. View airlines from China.
May 22, 2016
Atlantic Star Airlines intended to commence scheduled charter flights to St. Helena from Stansted. Did not happen. View airlines from United Kingdom.
May 24, 2016
Pan Air, established in Madrid in 1987, was renamed to ASL Airlines Spain. View airlines from Spain.
May 25, 2016
Nordic Seaplanes commenced operations with flights between Copenhagen & Aarhus. View airlines from Denmark.
May 25th, 2016
GETJET Airlines, founded in Mar2016, started operations. View airlines from Lithuania.
May 26, 2016
OrenAir's AOC was revoked after integration into Rossiya. View airlines from Russia.
May 27th, 2016
Air Belgium was founded. View airlines from Belgium.
May 30, 2016
Flymojo missed the deadline to start the process that would lead to an AOC. View airlines from Malaysia.
May 31, 2016
Himalaya Airlines, founded 19Aug2014 as Yeti Air International, launched operations with a single Airbus A.320. View airlines from Nepal.
June 01, 2016
Cobalt Air officially launched operations. View airlines from Cyprus.
June 22, 2016
VLM Airlines declared bankruptcy, all flights were cancelled with immediate effect and all planes grounded. View airlines from Belgium.
22nd June, 2016
SaudiGulf Airlines, established in 2013 by Abdel Hadi Abdullah Al-Qahtani & Sons Group of Companies, was awarded its AOC. View airlines from Saudi Arabia.
June 23, 2016
Eurowings Europes' maiden flight was Vienna-Alicante. View airlines from Austria.
June 25, 2016
Air Guilin commenced operations. View airlines from China.
June 27, 2016
Chilean Airways restarted operations after rebranding from ADA (AeroDesierto). View airlines from Chile.
June 30, 2016
Kiwi Regional Airlines ceased operations & was taken by Air Chathams on 30Jun2016. View airlines from New Zealand.
July 01, 2016
Fly Ernest, founded on 16Oct2015, commenced service operations (>Ernest Airlines). View airlines from Italy.
July 6th, 2016
Turku Air, founded in 1974, ceased operations. View airlines from Finland.
July 11, 2016
Air Seoul started operations. View airlines from South Korea.
July 14, 2016
Mars Avia was founded. View airlines from Armenia.
July 15, 2016
NewLeaf Travel restarted operations. View airlines from Canada.
July 18, 2016
Air Carnival, founded in 2013 as a charter airline known as Air Carnival Charter Services, was renamed & commenced scheduled operations. View airlines from India.
July 20th, 2016
orange2fly, established in Sep2015, started operations. View airlines from Greece.
July 25, 2016
NewLeaf Airways, founded in 2015, started operations (>>Flair Airlines). View airlines from Canada.
August 11, 2016
Texas Air Shuttle commenced operations following its inaugural flight between Conroe and McKinney. View airlines from USA.
August 16th, 2016
Air Djibouti (Red Sea Airlines) (ii) relaunched services as a regional carrier. View airlines from Djibouti.
August 18, 2016
Syrian Civil Aviation Authority issued EBLA Airlines with operator's license on 18Aug2016 but did not appear to start in 2016. View airlines from Syria.
August 26, 2016
Eagle Airways ceased operations. View airlines from New Zealand.
August 28th, 2016
Cobrex Trans, founded by Cobrex Brasov as Cobrex Elicoptere Brasov, was renamed and granted an AOC. View airlines from Romania.
August 30, 2016
Junkanoo Air commenced commercial freight operations. View airlines from Bahamas.
August 29, 2016
Talofa Airways commenced scheduled operations. View airlines from Samoa.
August 30th, 2016
Air Georgia, founded in 2015, started operations. View airlines from Georgia.
September 1st, 2016
Jetsmart was a regional carrier that began scheduled charter operations out of Bangalore. View airlines from India.
September 02, 2016
fly Lapland was a Luleå Kallax based carrier that was declared bankrupt. View airlines from Sweden.
September 08, 2016
Binter CV operated its maiden flight. View airlines from Cape Verde Islands.
September 10 2016
French Blue had its first flight to Punta Cana started (>French Bee). View airlines from France.
September 20, 2016
Brascoota intended to hold a formal unveiling ceremony at Lins airport in the state of São Paulo. Unsure if happened but still intends to start. View airlines from Brazil.
September 20th, 2016
Portland based SeaPort Airlines ceased all operations. View airlines from USA.
October 10, 2016
ECAir was forced to suspend all operations. View airlines from Republic of Congo.
October 10, 2016
Sky Gates Airlines is a cargo carrier that had it's first commercial flight with its B.747-400F. View airlines from Russia.
October 10, 2016
Anda Air operated its 1st flight on 10Oct2016, from Kyiv, Zhulyany airport to Marsa Alam, Egypt. View airlines from Ukraine.
October 19th, 2016
Wingo, a Lo-Cost carrier was established by Copa Airlines. View airlines from Colombia.
October 19, 2016
Jetairfly became TUIfly Belgium. View airlines from Belgium.
October 24, 2016
Alas Uruguay suspended all operations following its last flight: Buenos Aires Aeroparque- Montevideo. View airlines from Uruguay.
October 25th, 2016
Silk Way East Airlines, a start-up cargo carrier to be based at Baku Heydar Aliev International was registered but never started operations. View airlines from Azerbaijan.
October 26, 2016
Jiangsu Jet, a passenger charter carrier based out of Wuxi Sunan Shuofang International, received its AOC. View airlines from China.
October 28, 2016
PeopleFly, a Cagliari Elmas (CAG) carrier, had hoped to start operation but did not. View airlines from Italy.
October 29, 2016
Mihin Lanka ceased operations and its routes were taken over by SriLankan Airlines. View airlines from Sri Lanka.
October 29th, 2016
SaudiGulf Airlines, established in 2013 by Abdel Hadi Abdullah Al-Qahtani & Sons Group of Companies, started operations. View airlines from Saudi Arabia.
November 01, 2016
Kalahari Airways intended to launch commercial operations but did not. View airlines from Botswana.
November 05, 2016
Senator Atlantic Bridge began its own transatlantic freighter, from Munich (MUC) & Frankfurt (HHN) to Greenville-Spartanburg International Airport (GSP) twice per week. View airlines from Germany.
November 07, 2016
Fly Kiss launched services. View airlines from France.
November 9th, 2016
Baykalaviakom was formed, initially operating An-2 airplanes. View airlines from Russia.
November 14, 2016
Binter CV. having operated its maiden flight on 08Sep2016, started regular operations. View airlines from Cape Verde Islands.
November 18, 2016
Hawkair Aviation Services, a Vancouver based scheduled and charter regional services, suspended all operations, when it filed for bankruptcy protection. View airlines from Canada.
November 22, 2016
Dragonair was officially rebranded as Cathay Dragon during a ceremony. View airlines from Hong Kong.
November 22, 2016
Air Pegasus had its AOC suspended. View airlines from India.
November 22nd, 2016
TransAsia Airways was dissolved and all of its flight operations were suspended because of its deteriorating financial situation. View airlines from Taiwan.
November 24, 2016
Denim Air, having started operations on 26Apr1996, had its operations licence was revoked. View airlines from Netherlands.
November 28th, 2016
Aruban court officially declared Tiara Air bankrupt, following a motion filed earlier this month by several disgruntled employees claiming unpaid back wages. The airline then stopped operating. View airlines from Aruba.
November 30, 2016
Volaris de Costa Rica commenced revenue operations. View airlines from Costa Rica.
November 30, 2016
Fly Pro secured its freight-restricted AOC. View airlines from Moldova.
December 01, 2016
LaMia suspended operations after the Bolivian civil aviation authority (Dirección General de Aeronáutica Civil - DGAC) suspended its Air Operator's Certificate (AOC) following a fatal accident. View airlines from Bolivia.
December 01, 2016
Wingo, a Lo-Cost carrier established by Copa Airlines commenced operations. View airlines from Colombia.
December 7th, 2016
PeopleFly operated its first flight, operated by Aviro Air. View airlines from Italy.
December 9th, 2016
Asas Linhas Aéreas, a cargo carrier, was established. View airlines from Brazil.
December 16, 2016
TAM (Transportes Aereo Militar) ceased all civilian passenger operations following a directive from the Bolivian Ministry of Public Works. View airlines from Bolivia.
December 19, 2016
Tonga Airways (Tongatapu) had intended to launch its inaugural flight but failed to start. View airlines from Tonga.
December 21, 2016
Air Stork had its AOC issued. View airlines from Moldova.
December 31, 2016
Kush Airs' AOC was suspended. View airlines from South Sudan.