Taiwan’s Aviation Safety Council (ASC) has concluded that the incompetence of a flight instructor was the main cause behind a Daily Air Dornier Do-228 belly landing in December 2014. Registered B-55565, the aircraft took off from Taitung airport for a training mission at the nearby Green Island. The Council found that both the instructor pilot and the training captain did not...
Air France-KLM Group, ranked as Europe’s biggest airline since its formation in 2004, is teetering toward an exit from the industry’s top tier after a year in which efforts to slash costs foundered on union opposition. While figures due next week are likely to confirm the Franco-Dutch company as the No. 1 regional operator by traffic, a multiple of passengers and kilometers flown th...
Deutsche Lufthansa AG is forecasting that operating profit will rise in 2016 as fuel costs decline a fourth consecutive year. Adjusted earnings before interest and taxes will exceed the 2015 range of 1.75 billion euros ($1.9 billion) and 1.95 billion euros, the Cologne, Germany-based airline said in a presentation for investors published on Friday. While a predicted 20 percent drop in the pr...
Gama Aviation has announced that it will acquire Aviation Beauport of the Channel Islands. Once the acquisition is completed Gama Aviation will expand its geographic footprint and capture the growth potential of Jersey and the Channel Islands The conditional acquisition (subject to the approval of the Channel Islands Competition Authorities [CICRA]) of Aviation Beauport expands Gama Aviation...
Constant Aviation is merging with Lone Star AOG. The combined companies will operate under Constant Aviation and the full transition will take 30 days. “The AOG business at Constant Aviation has been growing consistently the last year.” Stephen Maiden, president & CEO at Constant Aviation said: “The AOG business at Constant Aviation has been growing consistently the las...
The Lufthansa Technik completion center has finished the VVIP cabin conversion of the second Boeing 747-8 in Hamburg. The aircraft has now been delivered to an undisclosed customer. Another aircraft of this type is currently undergoing completion. In the past the company equipped fourteen aircraft of the predecessors to the current Boeing 747-8 and is the leading provider for this aircraft type...
The first two batches of trainees under the SkillsFuture Earn and Learn Programme (ELP) for the Aerospace Engineering Sector received their course completion certificates at the official launch of the Temasek Aviation Academy on Friday (Jan 8). The 12-month programme targets fresh graduates from the polytechnics and Institutes of Technical Education, and aims to offer them an accelerated...
Following the accident involving the aircraft SE-DUX West Atlantic Sweden AB will hold a press conference at 11:00 a.m. at Best Western Tidbloms Hotel with address Olskroksgatan 23, SE 416-66 Gothenburg. The aircraft departed Oslo on route to Tromsö and declared mayday at 1:31 p.m. whereby the Swedish and Norwegian search and rescue teams were notified. The crash site was located at 3...
Hawaiian Airlines, Inc., welcomed a record 10,672,667 customers in 2015, a 4.7 percent increase over the previous year. Hawai’i’s largest and longest-serving airline announced its system-wide traffic statistics for the full year, fourth quarter and the month of December 2015, and also updated its expectations for certain fourth quarter financial metrics. Hawaiian recently annou...
ASL Airlines France announces the launch of a new route between Bordeaux and Hamburg for the 2016 summer season. The second unprecedented route out of Bordeaux ASL Airlines France today announced the launch of its inaugural flight between Bordeaux and Hamburg, following its first route out of Bordeaux, which linked the city to Vienna. ‘With the success of its inaugural service to...
Vistara, India’s fastest growing full service carrier, has successfully completed its first year of operations on January 9, 2016. In a short span of one year, the airline boasts a fleet size of nine brand new A320 aircraft, operating 307 weekly flights to 12 destinations across the country. Vistara has already flown more than one million happy customers within one year of operations which r...
FAA administrator Michael Huerta said the mandatory registration process for recreational unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) has proceeded smoothly, with 181,000 registrations completed so far. The number of registrations represents owners of UAVs weighing between .55 lbs. and 55 lbs.; an owner can register multiple vehicles using the same number. FAA launched a registration website Dec. 21. &l...
