Etihad Airways has partnered with World Energy to operate the first NetZero flight powered entirely by Sustainable Aviation Fuel Book & Claim, delivering delegates to COP27 with zero net emissions. The airline will operate its Washington Dulles to Abu Dhabi service, routed via COP27 venue Sharm-El-Sheik to demonstrate the only feasible path to net-zero commercial aviat...
Bombardier will officially inaugurate its newest, state-of-the-art service centre in the U.S., located at the Miami-Opa Locka Executive Airport (OPF) in Miami-Dade County, Florida. Bombardier’s Leadership team, customers, VIP guests and members of the media will be invited to attend the ceremony on Oct. 31, 2022, in Miami. Once fully operational, the new 300,000 square foot facility will...
Condor Flugdienst and Lufthansa Technik signed a comprehensive contract regarding component support of the airline's new and efficient Airbus A330neo fleet. Under the terms of the ten-year agreement, Lufthansa Technik will provide Total Component Support for the Airbus A330-900neo aircraft that will join Condor's fleet in the coming years. For Lufthansa Technik it is the fir...
Riding on the stable high market demand for MRO landing gear services in the EUMEA region, the partnership enables Liebherr-Aerospace to off-load contracted landing gear work to AEM, a highly qualified and well established MRO landing gear provider based in Ramsgate (UK). This agreement will increase the number of available overhaul slots for E-Jet E1 aircraft, while the reliability of...
By the end of October, the new winter flight schedule at Munich Airport will come into effect. It will be valid from Sunday, October 30, 2022, until Saturday, March 25, 2023. During the winter flight schedule period, passengers traveling from Munich can choose from a total of 157 destinations – 14 in Germany, 107 in Europe, and 36 long-haul destinations.From the start of the new schedule, th...
Amazon Air has signed a firm agreement to lease ten A330-300P2F freighters from Altavair, taking advantage of the A330’s capacity and economics to help fulfil its one-day delivery promise to Amazon Prime customers. The aircraft will be operated for Amazon by Hawaiian Airlines, which has had A330s as a key element of its fleet since 2010. The ten airframes are being converted from passenger a...
World first multirole tiltrotor programme set a major milestone with the maiden flight of the first AW609 production aircraft. This aircraft introduces unprecedented capabilities under a dedicated ‘powered lift category’ civil certification now under development. Designated AC5, the aircraft took to the air at Leonardo Philadelphia-based site on 13th October performing a...
During NBA-BACE 2022 Tecnam presented the new P2012 dedicated to Short Take Off and Landing operations and the program to secure the available production slots. Specifically designed to operate across the most demanding commercial airports in the world, addressing the needs of a market niche that was left undeveloped and unsupported for decades, Tecnam is once again providing a solu...
Pratt & Whitney will expand its global network of providers that maintain the Pratt & Whitney GTF engine to include Iberia Maintenance, the maintenance and engineering division of Iberia Airlines. The Madrid-based facility will service PW1100G-JM engines for the A320neo family with full disassembly, assembly and test capability. The announcement was recognized at an in-person signing...
CAE and Clay Lacy Aviation have signed a two-way organizational cross-training and job-sharing agreement. This agreement calls for CAE instructors to be trained to company standards enabling them to fly with Clay Lacy, and for Clay Lacy senior pilots to be approved to conduct training and check flights for CAE. A business aviation industry first, this two-year cross-training and job-sharing agreem...
AFI KLM E&M and Ampaire signed a MoU that anticipates bringing the worldwide resources of AFI KLM E&M to the introduction and global support of electrified aircraft. The two companies intend to accelerate the introduction of sustainable aviation by utilizing their respective core competencies. The MoU covers a broad range of mutual interests, from Aircraft Development, Maintenance Tra...
Garmin announced Supplemental Type Certification by the FAA for the GI 275 electronic flight instrument in the Dassault Falcon 7X business jet. As a replacement for the original secondary flight display, the primary GI 275 will integrate with the aircraft’s existing systems to be configured as an attitude-direction indicator with synthetic vision technology. Adding a second GI...
