Titan Airways has added a brand new Phenom 300 to its fleet. The executive jet, which seats 9 passengers in ultimate comfort, was delivered to our London Stansted base on 27th May direct from the manufacturer in Fort Lauderdale, USA. The Phenom 300, the world’s most delivered business jet for the past three years, offers top-tier speed, climb and field performance, next-generat...
Iran’s state airline Iranair says it is talking with US plane maker Boeing about buying a large number of aircraft. Iranair’s chairman Farhad Parvaresh told Reuters the order could be close in size to the 118 Airbus jets it has agreed to buy. The Airbus deal however is conditional on the granting of US export licences because those planes contain so many US-built parts. In add...
Around 200 passengers travelling to Bangkok on an Air India flight spent more than five hours inside the aircraft owing to a last minute snag that could not be corrected due to dearth of technicians. The flight was scheduled for take-off at 1:30 am on Saturday but the snag made it immobile till early morning. Around 5 am on Saturday when passengers became restless, the airline crew allowed t...
Airbus Group (AIR.PA) faces renewed pressure from France and other European buyers to meet performance and delivery pledges for its A400M military transport plane but is struggling to meet the deadlines, people familiar with the matter said. After partly successful efforts to overcome delays on Europe's largest defense project, the A400M has been plunged into uncertainty again, especially d...
TAP Portugal today introduces new daily non-stop service to Lisbon from Boston’s Logan International airport. Launch fares for the new route start from just $799 (tax included), for roundtrip travel to Lisbon. With these new services, TAP is moving forward in the implementation of its network expansion strategy in the USA, thus allowing North American travelers to fly eas...
True Blue Power and Avmax today announced the receipt of a Transport Canada Civil Aviation (TCCA) Part 23 Supplemental Type Certificate (STC) for installation of the True Blue Power TB44 (46 amp hour) lithium-ion aircraft battery on Viking Air DHC-6 aircraft, commonly known as the Twin Otter. The two companies have applied for U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) approval of the same Pa...
The Swedish Pilot Union SPF called 400 members on short haul routes out on strike, effective Friday, June 10. The majority of the flights operated by SAS with Swedish pilots will be cancelled. On Saturday this affects 159 flights and 20.000 passengers. On Saturday, flights operated by SAS with Swedish pilots will be cancelled. Flights, operated with Danish and Norw...
Another Embraer aicraft in the Austrian Airlines fleet with the registration number OE-LWK took off on its initial flight OS311 from Vienna to Stockholm this morning. The Embraer aircraft is the sixth out of a total of 17 Embraer jets which Austrian Airlines will integrate into its fleet by the end of 2017. In April 2016, an Embraer simulator from Swiss Aviation Training (SAT) was relocate...
Signature Flight Support, a BBA Aviation company, announced today that it has signed an agreement with London Biggin Hill Airport (BQH/EGKB) to expand and operate from the former RizonJet FBO facility. This stunning facility rivals any in the business aviation world in its elegantly appointed private lounge areas and four floors comprising over 20,000 sq. ft. A boardroom and multiple conference...
Pilots at the French national airline have started a four-day strike that could disrupt plans for thousands of football fans on the second day of the Euro 2016 competition. Air France has cancelled up to 30% of its flights on Saturday. Pilots at the French national airline have started a four-day strike that could disrupt plans for thousands of football fans on the second day of the Euro 201...
Celebrity endorsements are a cornerstone of advertising nowadays, but an industrial manufacturing giant like Boeing seldom gets the chance to play that game. What celebrity is going to tout stuff like cargo hold capacity and cruising range? Well, Boeing's chance came several weeks ago, when one of its 747-400 jumbo jets touched down at the company's manufacturing plant in Everett, Wash....
Have you ever looked out the airplane window on takeoff or landing to spot the big numbers painted on the end of the runway. Yes, they help pilots tell one runway from another, but they also tell them something more. As Atlas Obscura explains, the numbers that runways have aren't arbitrary. A runway always has a number between 1 and 36, and that number isn't just the run...
