As well as its wine and cheese, France is also famed for its traditional August month off, when much of the workforce simply shuts down and heads to the beach. It’s a brave – or perhaps desperate – company that’s willing to challenge French workers’ assumption that they get to spend a month en vacances but now Airbus, one of the country’s most high-profi...
It is still in its infancy but three-dimensional printing is what experts call a disruptive technology. It has changed the way items including plane spare parts and prosthetic arms are produced, and it is not stopping there. Scientists are experimenting with the use of live cells to one day be able to produce human organs, while innovation in the field could allow astronauts to print spare part...
easyJet, Europe’s leading and Gatwick’s largest airline, has announced a new route from London Gatwick to Åre Östersund Airport, Sweden which will commence on 11 December 2016 and is expected to be especially popular with skiers and snowboarders. The new route will be easyJet’s first service from the UK to Sweden. When it launches it will be the 32nd country in easy...
AAR , a leading provider of aircraft maintenance and integrated supply chain solutions worldwide, has signed a long-term, multimillion-dollar contract to provide power-by-the-hour (PBH) component inventory management and repair services to Dubai-based flydubai. The agreement represents a significant expansion of AAR’s commercial footprint in the Middle East. AAR will assume nose...
British Airways is set to gain access to the domestic Chinese market as it launches a new partnership with Shanghai-based carrier, China Eastern Airlines. With its gleaming skyscrapers and ancient temples China is more accessible than ever before as the British carrier will start selling flights to Kunming, Xi’an, Nanjing, Hangzhou and Chongqing on a BA flight code, while the Chinese carrier...
The U.S. Air Force awarded Boeing [NYSE: BA] $2.8 billion on Aug. 18 for KC-46A tanker low-rate initial production. The award includes the first two “production lots” of 7 and 12 planes respectively, as well as spare parts. Including future options, Boeing plans to build a total of 179 of the 767-based refueling aircraft for the Air Force to replace their KC-135 fleet. “The...
Instead of rewiring planes to fly themselves, why not give them android pilots? THE idea of a drone—an aircraft designed from scratch to be pilotless—is now familiar. But what if you want to make pilotless a plane you already possess? Air forces, particularly America’s, sometimes do this with obsolete craft that they wish to fly for target practice. By using servomotors to wor...
Wizz Air and Romania’s largest airline today celebrates the major milestone of opening its seventh Romanian base in Sibiu and starting four new routes from Sibiu to Nuremberg, Madrid, Milan Bergamo and Munich Memmingen. With the four new flights starting over the weekend, WIZZ, deploying a robust Airbus A320 aircraft to the newest WIZZ base represents a further €9...
Russia’s United Aircraft Corporation held a press briefing where president Yuri Slyusar focused on the MC-21, SSJ100 and next-gen widebody programs. Sales of modern jetliners to the developing countries in Asia and Africa were among other topics addressed at the press briefing. Certain carriers from Egypt (Cairo Aviation) and Azerbaijan (AZAL) have already signed for the MC-21....
A Qatar Airways passenger jet with over 300 people on board made an emergency landing at Istanbul’s main airport Thursday after an engine caught fire, the airline said, blaming a “bird strike” for the blaze. Video footage showed flames spitting out of the left engine of the Airbus 330 as it prepared to land at Istanbul’s Ataturk Airport. It made it safely to the ground....
Virgin Atlantic’s new US$4.4 billion order for 12 Airbus A350-1000 aircraft will mark the arrival of the most capable cargo aircraft in its fleet. The airline, which announced the order at last month’s Farnborough International Airshow 2016 in the UK, says the investment demonstrates the strength of the Virgin Atlantic commitment to customer experience as it continues to focus on de...
FL Technics, a global provider of integrated aircraft maintenance, repair and overhaul services, continues the diversification of its base maintenance client portfolio by signing a new deal with an airline from the MENA region – Express Air Cargo. Under the agreement, FL Technics shall provide redelivery checks on two of the carrier’s Boeing 737s. Both Boeing 737-300 aircraft have...
