| | | Lufthansa hires more than 4,000 new employees | | 2,800 flight attendants wanted at various locations. • Eurowings and Austrian Airlines are hiring 240 pilots. • More jobs for ground staff and trainees with airlines and Lufthansa Group serv... | Read More | | | | | | Second H160 helicopter to fly shortly | | Airbus Helicopters intends to perform a maiden sortie of the second flight-test prototype of its H160 medium twin-engined rotorcraft in the coming days, having missed a self-imposed end-2015 deadline... | Read More | | | | | | Air France pays tribute to its last Boeing 747 with its customers | | Air France salutes with emotion the departure of its Boeing 747 from its long-haul fleet, after more than forty years of idyllic travel by Jumbo Jet. On this occasion, the Company is inviting its cust... | Read More | | | | | | Dassault Falcon Sales, Deliveries Drop in 2015 | | Dassault Falcon sales declined by 72 percent last year compared with 2014, according to preliminary numbers released today by the French aircraft manufacturer. In 2015, Dassault reported 45 gross Falc... | Read More | | | | | | BOC Aviation orders 30 more A320s | | BOC Aviation has announced an additional order for 18 A320neo and 12 A320ceo family aircraft.
The lessor says in a statement that the order was placed in late December 2015, and will help it to ful... | Read More | | | | | | Boeing Achieves Record Commercial Airplanes Deliveries in 2015 | | Boeing delivered 762 commercial airplanes in 2015, 39 more than the previous year and most ever for the company as it enters its centennial year.
“The Boeing team has worked hard to achieve s... | Read More | | | | | | Airbus introduces a system to jam drones out of the sky | | For every cheap flying robot, there is an elaborate, expensive system to counter it. The latest anti-drone tool comes from European aerospace and defense giant Airbus, and promises a high-tech solutio... | Read More | | | | | | Chinese drone maker unveils human-carrying drone | | Chinese drone maker Ehang Inc. on Wednesday unveiled what it calls the world's first drone capable of carrying a human passenger.
The Guangzhou, China-based company pulled the cloth off the Eha... | Read More | | | | | | Corrosion warning for Bell 429 operators | | Operators of Bell 429 helicopters have been instructed to conduct urgent inspections of a tail rotor component after an investigation revealed a potentially dangerous manufacturing defect.
In an em... | Read More | | | | | | Niki Lauda to return to aviation through Amira Air | | Veteran Formula 1 driver and aviation pioneer Niki Lauda is set to return to the airline industry following his acquisition of Amira Air (Vienna) late last year.
Lauda told Die Presse newspaper tha... | Read More | | | | | |