Miguel Pelaez Lira has been named the new head of Mexico's Civil Aviation General Directorate, or DGAC, replacing Gilberto Lopez Meyer. Gerardo Ruiz Esparza, head of the Communications and Transportation Secretariat, which oversees the DGAC, made the appointment on Wednesday. Lopez was recently named the senior vice president for safety and flight operations of the International Air Tran...
Wizz Air announced it will add operations from Kaunas to complement its Lithuanian offer of low-cost services. From 29 March, the airline will start operating a new service to London Luton from the newest WIZZ airport in Kaunas with five weekly flights. With an initial seat capacity of 93,000 seats the new route is expected to stimulate the aviation and hospitality sectors in Lit...
Aeroflot PJSC announces operating results for Aeroflot Group («the Group») and Aeroflot — Russian Airlines («the Company») for November and the eleven months of 2015. The operating results of Aeroflot Group and Aeroflot — Russian Airlines for November 2015 were significantly influenced by the Group’s participation in a major program to c...
Wizz Air, the largest low-cost airline in Central and Eastern Europe,announced a new service from Lublin to Eindhoven in the Netherlands. The twice-weekly service will begin on 25 March, and will be operated on Mondays and Fridays. The new service is Wizz Air’s first low-fare route between Lublin and the Netherlands. Located in the south of the country, Eindhoven is a famous university ci...
Crystal Luxury Air has acquired an ex-Air Austral B777-200(LR) in the form of F-OLRA (msn 40955) now re-registered as P4-XTL under the Aruban registry. The aircraft will shortly be joined by a B787-8 as well as an A319-100CJ and a Bombardier Global Express XRS. Beginning March 2016, the cruise specialist will use the new aircraft to operate private charters and transport guests from any po...
Southwest Airlines and the United States have settled a lawsuit involving allegations the Texan LCC operated numerous B737 aircraft that did not conform to US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) maintenance standards and were therefore not airworthy. In November last year, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced a USD12 million lawsuit against Southwest for three separate types of mainte...
Travel firms Thomson and Thomas Cook have extended a suspension of flights to the Egyptian holiday resort of Sharm el-Sheikh until at least 23 March. The UK government suspended flights to the Red Sea resort in November after the suspected bombing of a Russian passenger jet killed 224 people. So-called Islamic State militants claimed responsibility for the attack. Over 16,000 Britons stra...
Mitsubishi Aircraft is to delay the first delivery of the MRJ regional airliner by around a year, to mid-2018. Initial delivery of the aircraft had been scheduled for the second quarter of 2017. But the airframer recently disclosed that it was reviewing the entire development plan following the commencement of flight-testing. Mitsubishi has revealed that it will amend the schedule, shifting...
Michael Jackson’s Earth Song was the festive number one, kids were going crazy to have the must-have ‘Pogs’ as presents, there was a run on Cranberries thanks to Delia Smith’s latest Christmas recipes – and ba.com was about to make its debut on the internet. The worldwide web was still finding its feet and few people really understood how big a difference the inter...
Today the Long-range aviation of the Russian Aerospace Forces celebrates its 101st anniversary. At the present time the Long-range aviation is equipped with strategic missile-carrying aircraft Tu-160 and Tu-95MS, long-range bombers Tu-22M3, air tankers Il-78(M), special purpose aircraft A-30B, air transports An-12, An-26, as well as Mi-8 and Mi-26 helicopters. This year, crews of the Long-ra...
Darwin-based Airnorth will expand out of Northern Australia for the first time when it commences daily services from Toowoomba’s Wellcamp Airport to Melbourne from next March. The flights will be operated by Airnorth’s 76-seat Embraer E170 jets from March 14, with new three-times-weekly Wellcamp-Cairns services to begin at the same time. “This initi...
Hainan Airlines has returned to Sydney for the first time since 2012 with the inaugural direct seasonal service from Xi’an touching down at Sydney Airport on Thursday morning. Hainan launched flights to Sydney in January 2011, when it served Sydney on a Hangzhou-Shenzhen-Sydney routing. However, it pulled off the route a year later. Its new twice-weekly flights fr...
