Author: Marcel van Noordenne

Airwork of New Zealand is the latest Boeing 757 operator; the company will soon take delivery of ex-American Airlines N689AA (c/n 25731) which has been converted to freighter at Goodyear/GYR; the aircraft made a local test flight June 25th as JTN8121 after the conversion.

Pacific Air Express might be a new Boeing 757F operator; N315ST (c/n 22611) was recently ferried from the United States to Christchurch in New Zealand and the US registration was cancelled a few days later; it was re-registered to an Australian registration (which one is not known at this moment).

PAWA Dominicana had its AOC revoked; the company was supposed to get a Boeing 757 (c/n 24402, YV288T) from SB Airines; a picture of the aircraft was posted on the internet in full PAWA Dominicana c/s in an hangar somewhere in Mexico (http://www.arecoa.com/…/el-boeing-757-con-el-que-pawa-vola…/); the article dates from April 2016; I

Allegiant Air is no longer a Boeing 757 operator; the company returned the last 2 aircraft it operated. N905NW (c/n 27235) and N906NV (c/n 27236) were both ferried to Victorville October 31st, 2017 for lease return and storage.

BEIJING—Chinese freight carrier YTO Airlines is close to securing more than 10 American Airlines Boeing 757s for conversion to cargo operation. Boeing will acquire the passenger aircraft on behalf of YTO and convert them, said Zhu Rui, vice president of YTO Airlines owner YTO Express Group. http://aviationweek.com/commercial-aviation/chinese-airlines-vying-ex-american-boeing-757s http://aviationweek.com/awincommercial/yto-airlines-negotiating-ex-american-757s News provided

May 27, 2017- Kathmandu Post Nepal Airlines Corporation (NAC) did not receive a single bid for its 30-year-old Boeing 757 that was put up for auction on April 10. The deadline for submitting tender documents ended on Wednesday. The minimum sale price for the 757 named Karnali and bearing registration