Last week Vilnius Airport gave a water salute to greet the aircraft of Germania on the occasion of the launch of regular flights on the route Vilnius-Zürich. Air service between Lithuania and Switzerland is re-launched after a pause of eight years. "The growing number of new airlines and routes in Vilnius is a proof that we are an attractive European destination. The new Vilnius-Z&uu...
Austrian business operator Tyrolean Jet Services (TJS) is a permanent exibitor at EBACE since 2003. Over the years TJS planes were repeatedly presented on static display exhibition. Martin Lehner told that TJS team at EBACE 2016 was represented by 12 employees. This year the presentation was almost gastronomic - offering guests original prosciutto,parmesan and drinks from the Emilia-Romag...
Comlux the Aviation Group is pleased to announce that its VIP airline division, Fly Comlux, has signed an aircraft management contract with Crystal AirCruises for the operations of their future Boeing B777-200LR VIP. Crystal AirCruises is the new division of Crystal Cruises, a company part of the Genting Group. The Boeing B777-200LR VIP is today in its completion phase in the US and is planned...
Bombardier Commercial Aircraft announced today the successful completion of a C Series aircraft demonstration flight carrying senior executives from about twenty Star Alliance member airlines and media representatives. The historic flight of the innovative C Series aircraft, which features state-of-the-art technologies, departed Dublin at the conclusion of the 2016 Annual General Meeting of the In...
The Latvian airline airBaltic launched a new summer charter flight between Riga and Rimini on June 5, 2016 for Tez Tour. Konstantins Palgovs, General Manager of Tez Tour in the Baltics: “We are happy to launch flights to our 21st destination in co-operation with airBaltic – Rimini in Italy. Rimini is one of the most famous seaside resorts in Italy with beautiful beaches and historic...
Protection against cyber attacks is becoming a growing challenge in the aviation industry, according to Tony Tyler, CEO of the International Air Transport Association (Iata). Experts estimate that cyber security breaches cost a total of $500m in 2015. It is also estimated that 94% of global companies have experienced some form of cyber attack. It is further estimated that about 13% of people st...
Shenzhen is looking to build three new airports – one each for commercial airliners, seaplanes and helicopters – as part of plans to make it southern China’s transport hub. However, the plan risks bringing even more underutilised airports into the Pearl River Delta. The airports are part of a 1.4-trillion-yuan (HK$1.66 trillion) blueprint to shift the city’s developme...
Turkish authorities have sunk an A300 Airbus jet off the Aegean coast with the aim of attracting more diving tourists to the region. The plane was put to the bottom of the sea off the resort of Kuşadası, in Aydin province, 50 miles south of Izmir. The sinking of the plane, which is 54 metres (177ft) long and has a wingspan of 44 metres, is aimed at promoting artificial reef diving, which...
Emirates, the largest operator of Airbus’s A380 superjumbo, has all but given up on getting an upgrade of the double-decker with new engines and is instead making a more modest pitch to the planemaker: please don’t drop the programme altogether. “I can’t force Toulouse to do anything," Emirates president Tim Clark told reporters at a briefing in Dublin, referring to...
The European Aviation Safety Agency issued an emergency airworthiness directive (AD) on June 2 to ground the fleet of Airbus Helicopters AS332 L2 Super Puma and EC225 LP (H225) models, after more evidence of a potential unsafe condition in the main rotor assembly was discovered. This follows an April 29 crash of an EC225LP near Bergen, Norway....
Recently, Qatar Airways launched its long-awaited, first commercial flight to Atlanta, as the airline commenced daily, non-stop service between Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport (ATL) and Hamad International Airport (DOH) in Doha. Skytrax’s reigning “Airline of the Year” marked the occasion by operating the inaugural flights with one of the airline’s super jumbo Airb...
Further spreading the benefits of international tourism across the Solomon Islands and providing a vital air link for the people of Malaita Province, Solomon Airlines has resumed flights into the provincial capital of Auki. The national carrier has commenced operation of three weekly services ex-Honiara on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays using a combination of its Twin Otter and Islander aircra...
On 4 June, Nordica in cooperation with Adria Airways will launch direct flights to Rijeka, Croatia. The first flight from Tallinn to Rijeka will take off at 18:30 EEST. Nordica board member Erik Sakkov said that the interest of Estonians in Croatia and their love for the country is growing. “We are very pleased to offer Estonian passengers now the choice of two holiday destinations i...
Honeywell Aerospace is researching a series of advanced technologies,from use of sensors that can tap into brainwaves to control basic aircraft maneuvers to speech-recognition equipment and synthetic-vision advancements, to create a cockpit environment in which the pilot could use any number of means to perform a mission. Bob Witwer, v-p of advanced technology for Honeywell Aerospace, said t...
Three years after launching, Voldirect, the first business aviation company in Rennes France, has launched its second plane, the Pilatus PC12. The PC-12 is one of the most comfortable airplanes in its category and the most flexible for small airport accessibility. The Pilatus PC-12's cabin is pressurized and spacious enough to accommodate up to eight passengers and to offer them an ideal sp...
Jet Aviation Basel has recently signed a parts consignment agreement with Seattle-based Custom Control Concepts (CCC), a leading provider of custom in-flight entertainment equipment, lighting and cabin management systems (CMS) for VIP aircraft. As an Authorized Service Center for Customer Control Concepts (CCC), Jet Aviation Basel regularly supports CCC equipment. This parts consignme...
Lemongrass chicken and black pepper beef were on the menu for passengers lucky enough to grab a seat on Air New Zealand airline's inaugural flight to Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam. The 11-hour flight touched down on Sunday morning (NZT), with dignitaries including Economic Development Minister Steven Joyce and Vietnamese Ambassador to New Zealand Viet Dung Nguyen greeted by a kapa haka group...
LOT Polish Airlines is planning an overhaul of its narrowbody fleet with the addition of some more aircraft to better compete with low-cost rivals in the fast-growing eastern European market and add routes out of its Warsaw hub, the carrier's new chief executive said on Saturday. "We are interested in increasing the significance and scope of our hub in Warsaw," Rafal Milczarski, w...
With AIM purchase aviation firm continues program of snapping up niche specialists Chinese aviation firm AVIC International Holding Corp has completed the acquisition of AIM Altitude, a Britain-based aircraft cabin interior supplier, for an undisclosed amount, from the London based private equity firm TowerBrook. AIM Altitude, based in Bournemouth in southern England, has three production ba...
A Malindo Air flight from Kuala Lumpur to Kota Kinabalu (KK), Sabah had to turn back to land at the Kuching International Airport (KIA) at 5.38pm today. A spokesman of the Malaysian Fire and Rescue Department (JBPM) in Sarawak said that at about 5.16pm, they received a telephone call from the KIA fire department on the matter. He said the Sarawak JBPM was informed that the airplane could not...
There's nothing like a request for medical staff from the flight attendant to put your complaints about over-zealous seat recliners into perspective. What's a diverted inbound flight compared with an averted cardiac arrest? Being young, I rarely think about the toll flying can place on the body – other than the heightened stress when I'm languishing by the boarding gate too lo...
