NEW AIRLINE - FlyX Aero is a Harare-based startup airline in Zimbabwe, established around late 2025/early 2026, targeting international routes to Africa, Europe, and the Middle East.

 Z-FLD - Airbus A340-312 - Photo:Firat Cimenli

The airline operates a fleet of used Airbus A340-300 aircraft and is currently working through the certification process with the Civil Aviation Authority of Zimbabwe to secure its Air Operator Certificate (AOC)

FlyX Aero has begun operations with a fleet of three Airbus A340-300s, registered as Z-FLA (formerly 9H-TQZ), Z-FLB, and Z-FLE.

AIRPORT - Dusseldorf Rhein-Ruhr Int'l Airport-EDDL-Germany

 Markus Altmann

FLEET - Edelweiss Air takes first A320neo

Edelweiss Air (WK, Zurich) has taken its first A320-200N, transferred from parent company Swiss, ahead of induction into service planned for April 4, 2026. Swiss removed HB-JDB (msn 9379) from service in September 2023, and it has since remained parked at Zurich. It was ferried to Ljubljana in September 2025, and later, already under Edelweiss' 'WK' code, was repositioned to Norwich International for maintenance on March 20. Its debut is currently scheduled for April 2 on the Zurich-Catania route. Edelweiss aims to add six A320-200Ns in total, although the other five will come from Austrian Airlines rather than Swiss. "The exact transfers are still being coordinated. Now, we are assuming a timeframe from late 2027 to autumn 2028," the spokesperson told ch-aviation.
 CH Aviation

Ukraine's Supernova Airlines to operate for Stellavia

Supernova Airlines (P7, Kyiv Boryspil) has signed a new commercial agreement with Portuguese air logistics company and virtual carrier Stellavia Airlines to operate a weekly route between Muscat and Larnaca. The Ukrainian airline began deploying its only aircraft, B737-800(BDSF) UR-NPA (msn 34970), on the route on March 19, 2026.

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FLEET - Sunclass Airlines (Denmark) CEO Valdemar Warburg says the carrier expects two more A321neos to arrive in the coming year and a half — as replacement aircraft.

 

ROUTES - Shirak Avia (Armenia) plans flights from Yerevan to Astana and Kaliningrad in late April 2026 with B737-500 and B737-800.

 Photo: Shirak Avia 

ROUTES - Royal Air Philippines plans to begin passenger flights from July 2026 with A320

 Flights will launch from Caticlan to Nanjing and Seoul Incheon, as well as Manila to Shanghai Pu Dong and Taipei Taoyuan.

Photo: Royal Air Philippines

AIRLINE HISTORY DEFUNCT - Air Belgium S.A was a Belgian charter airline that launched in May 1979 as a leisure carrier and operated until 2000.

Boeing 737-3Q8(QC)-OO-ILK - Lisboa

 

On 3 May 1979, tour operator Sun International and charter company Abelag Aviation partnered to found the airline Abelag Airways.
It began operations with a Boeing 707 and a Boeing 737-200, flying from Brussels Airport to destinations in the Mediterranean.
In 1980, after Abelag Aviation withdrew from the company, the airline was renamed to Air Belgium.


In 1990, in addition to European/Mediterranean destinations operated, the airline launched operations to destinations such as the United States and Mexico.


In 1998, Air Belgium and its parent company were bought by Airtours. By 30 October 2000, Air Belgium had ceased all flight operations.

IATA - AJ
ICAO - ABB
Callsign - AIR BELGIUM
Country Belgium
Started Operations 3 May 1979
Ceased operations Oct 2000
Base / Main Hub Brussels National (Zaventem) (BRU / EBBR)


Airbus A320 - 2
Boeing 737-200 - 4
Boeing 737-300 - 3
Boeing 737-400 - 2
Boeing 757 - 1