Airline history from 2017, this page lists 149 airline related events from 2017.
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149 dates in airline history from 2017:
September 28th, 2015
AMS Airlines, established in Aug2014, had its AOC approved by the Georgian Civil Aviation Agency. View airlines from Georgia.
January 11th, 2017
Genghis Khan Airlines, was rebranded from Tianjiao Airlines (founded on this date but never started operations). View airlines from China.
January 18, 2017
VECA Airlines suspended operations for 3 months for restructuring (due to financial problems). Unfortunately failed to restart. View airlines from El Salvador.
January 22, 2017
GI Aviation formally commenced operations. View airlines from UAE.
January 24, 2017
Imo Air inaugurated scheduled commercial operations. View airlines from Nigeria.
January 25, 2017
Rainbow Airlines commenced scheduled passenger operations. View airlines from Zimbabwe.
January 25, 2017
Norwegian Air Argentina was founded. View airlines from Argentina.
January 29, 2017
Serene Air started operations with B.738 aircraft. View airlines from Pakistan.
January 30, 2017
Shuttle America ceased operations and all remaining aircraft and crew were transferred to Republic Airlines. View airlines from USA.
January 30, 2017
SalamAir commenced revenue operations. View airlines from Oman.
January 31, 2017
Air Alderney was founded. View airlines from United Kingdom.
January 31, 2017
Shuttle America merged into Republic Airline. View airlines from USA.
January 31, 2017
Sepehran Airlines commenced operations. View airlines from Iran.
February 03, 2017
Zoom Air obtained its air operator's certificate. View airlines from India.
February 6th, 2017
VIA Airways, a passenger charter carrier based out of Sofia International (SOF), started operations. View airlines from Bulgaria.
February 9th, 2017
AeroBoyacá was created. View airlines from Colombia.
February 10, 2017
Longjiang Airlines, having received its AOC in Feb2017, started operations. View airlines from China.
February 10, 2017
Air Costa Rica commenced operations with its maiden commercial flight. View airlines from Costa Rica.
February 14, 2017
FlyViking received its AOC. View airlines from Norway.
February 15, 2017
Zoom Air began operations. View airlines from India.
February 22nd, 2017
Star East Airlines was registered. View airlines from Romania.
February 25, 2017
Express Air Cargo operated its inaugural flight, Tunis-Paris CDG. View airlines from Tunisia.
February 28, 2017
Air Costa suspended all flight operations citing financial issues with GECAS. View airlines from India.
March 01, 2017
Air Shabelle launched domestic and international operations with B.737-400 equipment. View airlines from Oman.
March 03, 2017
The offices of Kabo Air were sealed by the Nigerian Federal Inland Revenue Service due to unpaid tax liabilities but still hopes to restart. View airlines from Nigeria.
March 05, 2017
Yute Air ceased operations. View airlines from USA.
March 10, 2017
Citywing went into liquidation & ceased operations. View airlines from United Kingdom.
March 17, 2017
JC International Airlines commenced revenue operations. View airlines from Cambodia.
March 20th, 2017
Relax Airline was established in Budapest. View airlines from Hungary.
March 21st, 2017
AHS Air International had its domestic and international air charter licenses suspended. View airlines from Pakistan.
March 25, 2017
Ravn Alaska purchased all of the aircraft and other owned assets of Yute Air, as the latter shut down, taking over the Yute Air routes. View airlines from USA.
March 27, 2017
TAG Aviation Europe received its Maltese AOC. View airlines from Malta.
March 27, 2017
FlyViking started operations. View airlines from Norway.
March 27th, 2017
Florida West International Airway's cargo carrier's certificates of authority were all formally cancelled after the thirty three years. View airlines from USA.
March 29, 2017
Longhao Airlines successfully achieved its maiden flight between Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport and Nantong Xing Dong International Airport. View airlines from China.
April 01, 2017
Hummingbird Air suspended all operations. View airlines from US Virgin Islands.
April 1st, 2017
Air Micronesia, founded in 1968, was renamed to Continental Micronesia after acquisition by Continental Airlines (... ^UAL) . View airlines from Guam.
April 6th, 2017
Air Carnival ceased operations. View airlines from India.
April 7th, 2017
Turpial Airlines, founded in 2016, began operations. View airlines from Venezuela.
April 11, 2017
BVI Airways ceased operations in 2015 but appeared to have restarted. View airlines from British Virgin Islands.
April 12, 2017
Kan Air ceased all operations after being forced to ground its aircraft due to technical difficulties. View airlines from Thailand.
April 13, 2017
First flight of the B.737MAX 9. View airlines from USA.
April 24, 2017
BoraJet announced that the would temporarily suspend their operations and 30,000 existing flight reservations would be transferred to Turkish Airlines. It did not restart. View airlines from Turkey.
April 28, 2017
Orange Air ceased operations. View airlines from USA.
May 09, 2017
VivaAirPerú, founded & received its AOC in early 2017,commenced domestic operations. View airlines from Peru.
May 11, 2017
Corail Helicopteres started operations. View airlines from Mauritius.
May 15, 2017
Fly Mid Africas' first flight. View airlines from Gambia.
May 23, 2017
Corendon Airlines Europe started passenger services with a single B.738. View airlines from Malta.
May 24, 2017
Flugfélag Íslands rebranded itself as Air Iceland Connect. View airlines from Iceland.
May 25th, 2017
Flight Hauraki became Air Auckland Although the company continued to trade as Flight Hauraki until May2018. View airlines from New Zealand.
May 27, 2017
Fly Kiss ceased operations just 6 months after launching. View airlines from France.
May 30, 2017
Crna Gora Airways was registered. View airlines from Montenegro.
May 31st, 2017
Modern Logistics, founded in 2015, received its AOC. View airlines from Brazil.
June 01, 2017
Cyprus Airways (ii) started operations. View airlines from Cyprus.
June 1st, 2017
Wisdom Airways was launched. View airlines from Thailand.
June 2nd, 2017
Afeef Zara Airways, a planned scheduled carrier based out of Karachi Quaid-e-Azam Jinnah International (KHI), was formed. View airlines from Pakistan.
June 7th, 2017
InselAir Aruba ceased operations. View airlines from Aruba.
June 08, 2017
Air Lituanica filed for bankruptcy. View airlines from Lithuania.
June 15, 2017
Air Borealis was launched by the merger of Air Labrador & Innu Mikun Airlines. View airlines from Canada.
June 17, 2017
Norfolk Island Airlines (ii) commenced services. View airlines from Australia.
19th June, 2017
Air SARADA International was officially launched in Ouagadougou. View airlines from Burkina Faso.
June 22, 2017
Air Sarada International started operations with domestic services. View airlines from Burkina Faso.
June 23, 2017
Surf Air Europe commenced operations with flights out of its London Luton hub. View airlines from United Kingdom.
June 30th, 2017
Fly Macaw, a planned scheduled carrier to be based out of London Stansted, was incorporated. View airlines from United Kingdom.
July 17th, 2017
Level started operations after being renamed from Anisec Luftfahrt. View airlines from Spain.
July 01, 2017
Cyprus Airways started operations. View airlines from Cyprus.
July 01, 2017
JetClass launched its services. View airlines from Austria.
July 07, 2017
InselAir Aruba, a scheduled carrier based out of Aruba Reina Beatrix International (AUA) was declared bankrupt. View airlines from Aruba.
July 07, 2017
Yangtze River Express, having rebranded to Yangtze River Airlines, officially rebranded itself as Suparna Airlines. View airlines from China.
July 13, 2017
Ryanair Sun was registered as a company. View airlines from Poland.
July 15, 2017
GLO suspended all operations. View airlines from USA.
July 15th, 2017
Norwegian Air Internationals' first transatlantic flight with a B.737 MAX was performed. View airlines from Ireland.
July 17, 2017
Rotana Jet temporarily suspended operations in early Jun2017 but restarted on this date. View airlines from UAE.
July 18, 2017
easyJet set up a European subsidiary, named easyJet Europe in Vienna. View airlines from Austria.
July 20, 2017
easyJet set up a European subsidiary, named easyJet Europe in Vienna started operations. View airlines from Austria.
July 24th, 2017
Aer Southeast, a planned carrier that was set to commence operations out of the southeastern town of Waterford, did not start operations. View airlines from Ireland.
July 25th, 2017
Alas del Sur (ii), founded in 2016, started operations. View airlines from Argentina.
July 26, 2017
Mahogany Air, which was suspended three years ago due to operational challenges, has been relaunched with its inaugural flight to Ndola. View airlines from Zambia.
26 July 2017
Mahogany Air, which was suspended three years ago due to operational challenges, was relaunched with its inaugural flight to Ndola. View airlines from Zambia.
26 July 2017
JetSMART, an LCC carrier out of Santiago de Chile Int'l. inaugurated commercial flights with its maiden scheduled service. View airlines from Chile.
July 27th, 2017
Air Premia was founded as Airplumia and renamed prior to start of operations. View airlines from South Korea.
July 28th, 2017
flyGlobal Charter was granted its air service permit (ASP by )Malaysian Aviation Commission. View airlines from Malaysia.
July 04, 2017
Azur Air Germany, officially registered on 27Apr2016, started operations. View airlines from Germany.
July 31st, 2017
Saudi Oger closed down. View airlines from Saudi Arabia.
July 11 2017
Wataniya Airways, having ceased operations on 16Mar2011, restarted again. View airlines from Kuwait.
August 01 2017
Binter CV took over all the national connections of TACV. View airlines from Cape Verde Islands.
August 01 2017
FlyCapri (Green Bay), a Wisconsin-based planned virtual carrier was founded. View airlines from USA.
August 04, 2017
Bulgarian Eagle started operations after receiving its AOC a day earlier. View airlines from Bulgaria.
August 9th, 2017
AZee Air was formed. View airlines from Kazakhstan.
August 17, 2017
GCA Air was founded as Gran Colombia Aviación and was renamed prior to starting. View airlines from Colombia.
August 18th, 2017
Azimuth, founded in Feb2017, received its AOC. View airlines from Russia.
August 19, 2017
FlyMarche, having started operations on 16Jul2017, ceased. View airlines from Italy.
August 24, 2017
Aerospostal ceased operations, due to financial and economical problems. View airlines from Venezuela.
September 1st, 2017
Buta Airways, the low-cost subsidiary of AZAL Azerbaijan Airlines commenced operations. View airlines from Azerbaijan.
September 8th, 2017
AZee Air was established. View airlines from Kazakhstan.
September 08 2017
Sunair Aviation was grounded after the Civil Aviation Authority of New Zealand (CAANZ) suspended its Air Operator's Certificate (AOC). View airlines from New Zealand.
September 9th, 2017
Azimuth, founded in Feb2017, began commercial operations following the completion of its first passenger charter flights. View airlines from Russia.
September 14, 2017
TAP Portugal was renamed TAP Air Portugal, going back to the name used between 1979 and 2005. View airlines from Portugal.
September 15, 2017
Lanmei Airlines, a Chinese-owned airline commenced operations. View airlines from Cambodia.
September 16, 2017
Darwin Airline was rebranded as Adria Airways Switzerland. View airlines from Switzerland.
September 20th, 2017
Aero Tak, an Abuja-based charter operator, was registered. View airlines from Nigeria.
September 22, 2017
Waves was granted an Air Operator's Certificate (AOC) by the Guernsey civil aviation regulator. View airlines from United Kingdom.
September 23, 2017
flyadeal commenced operations with its inaugural commercial service, Jeddah-Riyadh. View airlines from Saudi Arabia.
September 24, 2017
Aeropostal restarted operations in early Aug2018 after ceasing on this date. View airlines from Venezuela.
September 27, 2017
Sundair launched its first revenue flight. View airlines from Germany.
September 28, 2017
Cal Jet by Elite commenced regular passenger flights between Carlsbad, CA and Las Vegas McCarran. View airlines from USA.
September 28th, 2017
Norwegian UK's first services were from Oslo Gardermoen to Barcelona, Málaga and Nice. View airlines from United Kingdom.
September 30, 2017
Kalstar Aviation ceased operations because the Transportation Ministry quoted a need for improving its management in technical and finance matters. View airlines from Indonesia.
October 02, 2017
Monarch Airlines ceased all operations. View airlines from United Kingdom.
October 02, 2017
Avian Líneas Aéreas (Avianca Argentina) started to operate domestic services, having as main hubs Buenos Aires and later in Cordoba. View airlines from Argentina.
October 02, 2017
Thomson Airways officially changed its legal name to TUI Airways. View airlines from United Kingdom.
October 4th, 2017
The air operator’s certificate of Dniproavia expired. View airlines from Ukraine.
October 7th, 2017
Dniproavia ceased operations after its AOC had expired on 04Oct2017. View airlines from Ukraine.
October 09, 2017
Pico Airways, a planned passenger charter carrier based out of Pico (PIX), was founded. View airlines from Portugal.
October 09, 2017
GoGreen Airways was officially launched. View airlines from United Kingdom.
October 12, 2017
Guicango it lost its only aircraft (EMB-120) performing a charter flight from Dundo to Luanda. View airlines from Angola.
October 12, 2017
AVIC Cargo Airlines, rebranded as China Air Cargo in 2016, launched operations with a Shenzhen-Changzhou service. View airlines from China.
October 15, 2017
VIM Airlines, having suspended all charter operations in Sep2017, halted all scheduled operations. View airlines from Russia.
October 24, 2017
Thomas Cook Aviation, a passenger charter carrier based out of Frankfurt International (FRA), was formed as Air Berlin Aviation. View airlines from Germany.
October 26, 2017
Air Kyrgyzstan ceased operations after its only aircraft, a B735 incurred a birdstrike. View airlines from Kyrgyzstan.
October 27, 2017
Last flight of airberlin. View airlines from Germany.
October 27, 2017
Thomas Cook Airlines Belgium's last flight and it was rebranded as VLM Airlines (Brussels). View airlines from Belgium.
October 28, 2017
Its bankrupt parent company Air Berlin terminated Belair. View airlines from Switzerland.
October 29, 2017
AirAsia Japan operated its inaugural commercial service. View airlines from Japan.
November 02, 2017
Air Mediterranean, founded in Jan2017, started operations. View airlines from Greece.
November 03, 2017
fastjet Mozambique commenced operations. View airlines from Mozambique.
November 05, 2017
Waves, granted an Air Operator's Certificate (AOC) by the Guernsey civil aviation regulator on 22Sep2017, commenced operations. View airlines from United Kingdom.
November 07, 2017
Monarch Air terminated all scheduled operations. View airlines from USA.
November 9th, 2017
Marathon Airlines was incorporated. View airlines from Greece.
November 10, 2017
Island Air ceased operations at end of day. View airlines from USA.
November 14, 2017
Samoa Airways commenced operations following the arrival of its first jet aircraft, a B737-800. View airlines from Samoa.
November 15, 2017
VLM Airlines received Belgian AOCs for both Airbus A320 and Fokker 50 operations. View airlines from Belgium.
November 24th, 2017
WestJet Link was founded. View airlines from USA.
November 25, 2017
Starbow Airlines suspended flight operations following a runway incident involving its recently inducted ATR72-500. View airlines from Ghana.
November 28, 2017
Adria Airways Switzerlands' operating licence was suspended by the Swiss authorities. View airlines from Switzerland.
November 30, 2017
Small Planet Airlines Cambodia began revenue operations. View airlines from Cambodia.
December 01, 2017
Joon formally inaugurated flight operations with its maiden commercial services from Paris CDG to each of Berlin Tegel, Lisbon, Porto, and Barcelona El Prat017. View airlines from France.
November 2nd, 2017
East West Airline was founded. View airlines from Syria.
December 08, 2017
Colorful Yunnan Airlines started operations. View airlines from China.
December 12, 2017
SXM Airways received its AOC. View airlines from Netherlands Antilles.
December 14th, 2017
Niki declared bankruptcy and ceased all operations (^Amira Air >LaudaMotion >Lauda). View airlines from Austria.
December 14, 2017
Skytaxi having been founded in 2007 by Rolf Seewald, suspended operations after a fatal crash. View airlines from Austria.
December 15th, 2016
LASA Líneas Aéreas, a planned scheduled carrier based out of Comodoro Rivadavia General E. Mosconi (CRD), Chubut, was founded. View airlines from Argentina.
December 15, 2017
yourways, the first operator of the Quest Kodiak aircraft, commenced scheduled services. View airlines from Germany.
December 20, 2017
SAS Airlines Ireland launched operations with a Copenhagen Kastrup-London Heathrow flight. View airlines from Ireland.
December 22, 2017
Transport Canada suspended West Wind Aviation’s Air Operator Certificate (AOC). This was reinstated in May2018, allowing the carrier to commence operations immediately. View airlines from Canada.
December 23rd, 2017
The Air Deccan unit of Deccan Charters re-launched with an aim of augmenting the government’s UDAN Regional Connectivity scheme. View airlines from India.
December 26, 2017
Welcome Air ceased operations. View airlines from Austria.
July 16, 2017
FlyMarche started operations. View airlines from Italy.