There's a new way to fly Australia's busiest air routes without standing in long lines to check in. A company called Airly is offering unlimited private flights between Melbourne, Canberra and Sydney for members who pay a monthly fee. But aviation experts say the start-up is doomed to fail because it's never been a better time to fly regular commercial domestic jets around...
The government is falling short in ensuring airline pilots keep up their flying skills and get full training on how to monitor sophisticated automated control systems in cockpits, according to the Transportation Department's internal watchdog. Most modern airline flying is done through automated systems that pilots closely monitor. Pilots typically use manual flying skills only briefly duri...
Who hasn’t wished at one time or another for a jetpack? Ever since James Bond used one in Thunderball in 1965, they have been a talisman of the hi-tech future. In every decade since, jetpacks have threatened to lift off. The world watched during the opening ceremony of the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, when a pilot used a jetpack to zip from one side of the stadium to the other. But limited...
It was a nearly perfect day at Children's Pool Beach in La Jolla: seals at rest in the sand, tourists gathered along the cliffs, sea gulls wheeling above. And in the middle of it all, a hovering drone. "Wouldn't it be great if the gulls attacked?" one bystander asked. "Who is flying that drone?!" demanded another, voicing worries that the drone could endanger...
Alcoa Inc said on Monday it had signed a $1.5 billion long-term contract with General Electric Co's aviation unit to supply components used in aircraft engines. The aluminum producer will provide advanced nickel-based superalloy, titanium and aluminum components for engines and parts made by GE. The company did not specify the period covered by the contract, which was first reported by t...
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is boosting Romania’s fast-growing manufacturing sector with a US$ 8.5 million loan to Sonaca as the aerospace company expands its operations in Romania. With the EBRD funding, the firm will build a plant in north-western Romania to produce wing components for leading aircraft manufacturers Airbus and Embraer. The new p...
Premier Aviation Overhaul Centre Inc. (“Premier”) and Discovery Air Technical Services Inc. (“DATS”), a wholly owned subsidiary of Discovery Air Inc. (TSXDA.A), announced that Premier has now completed the acquisition of substantially all of the assets of DATS on January 8, 2016. The parties previously announced Premier’s offer to purchaseDATS on June 2...
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) released data for global air freight markets showing air cargo volumes (measured in Freight Tonne Kilometers) were down 1.2% in November 2015, compared to November 2014. Total cargo volumes, however, expanded compared to October 2015, and were higher than the low point in August. This indicates that the decline in cargo demand may be bottoming out...
Alessandro Amendola has been appointed as new Senior Vice-President Engineering of ATR. He will be responsible for all the engineering activities related to the fields of certification and airworthiness, customization, systems and propulsion, structures, flight tests, flight technologies, support, and quality, processes and methods. He will also closely work with the Programs directorate, pro...
Franco-Dutch airline group Air France-KLM said Monday that the November 13 terror attacks in Paris reduced its December turnover by an estimated 70 million euros ($76.42 million, Dh280.5 million). But the effect had largely tailed off over the past two weeks, it added. “The negative impact of the Paris attacks on December revenues is estimated to be around 70 million euros, with signif...
Turkish Airlines has arrived at Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport for the second time without any passenger luggage, All Africa has reported. Last month it was reported that the carrier arrived at the airport without luggage, leading to protests from passengers and compensation having to be paid. Passengers besieged the airline’s flight on the tarmac in attempt to stop t...
Dubai International Airport, the world’s busiest by international traffic, experienced an 8.1 per cent increase in passenger numbers in November, its operator said on Monday. Traffic rose to 6.01 million passengers from 5.57m a year earlier, taking the total so far in 2015 to 70.96m, up 10.9 per cent. The largest increase in passengers came from the Indian subcontinent from where new f...
The Corporate Jet Investor business jet deliveries tracker is not intended to track the delivery of each and every business jet delivered during the course of 2016. Instead the intention is to track the more interesting business jet deliveries during the year. Of course, our definition of what constitutes ‘interesting’ business jet deliveries might well be different from your own...
Qatar Airways has launched a first-of-its-kind Travel Festival offering travellers a choice of dream deals suited for a variety of travel needs. The Qatar Airways Travel Festival has something for everyone, with exclusively designed packages including discounts of up to 50 per cent, companion fares, family and group discounts, access to special discounts on car rental, hotel deals and...
Emirates has announced the expansion of its operation in Switzerland with the addition of a second daily service to Geneva effective June 1, 2016. The second daily flight will double capacity on the route and represents an overall increase of 26% for Emirates in Switzerland The new flight will be operated by a state-of-the-art Boeing 777-300ER aircraft in a three-class configuration, w...
As preparations continue for the second phase of Europe’s Clean Sky technology development initiative, the first phase predecessor has reached its “most intensive” period – in terms of what has been achieved so far and what is about to be demonstrated. “This year or next year we will have achieved almost all of [the Clean Sky 1 demonstrations] as anticipated at the...
Lockheed Martin has begun the final assembly of Israel’s first F-35 Lightning II, having passed a key milestone at its Fort Worth site in Texas on 7 January. The Israeli air force’s lead example of the “Adir” – designated AS-1 – entered the mate process, where its four main structural assemblies are brought together. “AS-1 is expected to roll out of...
Some 100 relatives of the A321 passenger jet crash victims have prepared a class-action lawsuit to the New York Court against the US leasing company International Lease Finance Corporation (ILFC), from which the Russian Kogalymavia airline rented the airbus, the Russian Izvestia newspaper reported Monday. The Russian Airbus A321 with 224 people on board crashed on October 31 whil...
L&T Oman, a unit of the Indian contractor Larsen & Toubro, has landed a contract to build a new passenger terminal at Sohar Airport. The company announced the award of a $93.1 million contract to build a new regional airport in the Sultanate last week, but did not name the location. However, it is understood to be for Sohar Airport, as it corresponds with an award recently made by Om...
Cabin crew make or break a flight — it’s as simple as that. “The airline with a great seat and a bad crew will get a bad score no matter how fancy the seat is,” IATA director of marketing and sales Tim-Jasper Schaaf said when speaking of the association’s Airs@t survey program. “The crew drives passenger satisfaction so much that the other factors are less impor...
A United Airlines flight en route to Denver from Anchorage, was diverted on Saturday to Vancouver where a suspect was arrested due to "security concerns," authorities said. United flight UA1104 landed safely at about 4:30 am local time in Vancouver, where it was met by law enforcement authorities, the airline said. There were 131 passengers and six crew members aboard the Boeing 737....
