Akasa Air has placed a follow-on 737 MAX order, confirming 150 more fuel-efficient jets in its order book. The purchase of 737-10 airplanes and additional 737-8-200 jets by India’s all-737 operator was revealed at the Wings India 2024 airshow. Akasa Air will leverage the 737 MAX family to expand its domestic and international network in the coming years. Since launching operations...
Qantas is launching a second international route from Darwin, with direct flights from the Northern Territory to Singapore. New Qantas flights will add more than 60,000 seats on the route each year and provide visitors to Australia with a convenient gateway to access to some iconic Top End experiences. The flights will provide Territorians with a direct Qantas option to Singapore and also a s...
A rare accident occurred on January 2, 2024 at Tokyo airport. Landing Japan Airlines Airbus A350 collided with coast guard aircraft on the runway, bursting into flames immediately after touching down. After numerous opinions, posts and articles on JAL A350 accident and Alaska Airlines incident, I had to reach out to THE safety expert again to get his opinion on both cases. Fred...
Joby Aviation is collaborating with Atlantic Aviation to electrify existing aviation infrastructure in New York and Southern California, paving the way for the launch of Joby air taxi service. The collaboration between Joby and Atlantic will focus on activating key Atlantic sites to support quiet, emissions-free air taxis, including the installation of Joby Global Electric...
New wheel and brake maintenance and warehouse facility in Czech Republic is officially open after final audit. By the end of 2023, the German LBA performed the final audit for the new site in Czech Republic. The audit was passed without any findings. This means that TP Aerospace new EASA Part-145 approval includes the new site in Brno. Last year, TP Aerospace established a new wheel...
Six new Diamond DA40 XLT aircraft have been sold to the University of New South Wales’ School of Aviation (UNSW Aviation). The aircraft, in UNSW livery, will be hangered in Sydney and used to complement the existing eight DA40 aircraft already owned by UNSW Aviation. As part of the deal, Utility Air will also sponsor UNSW Aviation’s Electric Vehicle Racing Development team. John Opp...
The EAA Education Center in Oshkosh, which opened in July 2022 as a center for aviation learning for young people as well as experienced pilots, looks for additional growth in 2024 after already serving thousands of aviation enthusiasts of all ages. The $6.2 million Education Center is now completely funded after a final $600,000 matching grant from the Ray Foundation was met in late December...
Safran Aircraft Engines and France’s national aerospace research agency ONERA have begun first wind tunnel tests with the ECOENGInE, a 1:5 scale demonstrator of the future Open Fan. The trials are at ONERA’s wind tunnel facility in Modane, France. This disruptive architecture, a key pillar of the CFM RISE technology demonstration program, is currently the most promising in terms o...
The Future of In-flight entertainment content is Valour Consultancy latest report and provides a timely overview of key developments that have occurred across the IFE content licensing landscape since 2020. Overall, the market has experienced a strong recovery in the post-COVID era, with content licensing revenues reaching over $U.S. 300 million in 2024 as there is demand among airlines...
MEHAIR placed a conditional order for up to 20 ZA600 hydrogen-electric engines. The order adds to the over 2,000 engine pre-orders secured by ZeroAvia. MEHAIR has historically offered services across the Indian sub-continent, commencing with the Andaman and Nicobar Islands in 2011. The company now has ambitious plans to grow across a range of sub-regional routes across India with bo...
Luxaviation Group announced that ExecuJet France has received fully electric ground handling equipment at their FBO in Paris Le Bourget Airport, making it the first ExecuJet FBO with fully electric owned GHE in Europe. The milestone comes as a move in Luxaviation Group’s target to achieve a 100% of GHE electrification in their FBOs by 2030. At Paris FBO, the list of GHE t...
Trimec Aviation has received its Supplemental Type Certificate for the Falcon 2000 and 2000EX with Universal Avionics InSight Flight Display System, replacing the Pro Line 4. It includes Universal SBAS-Flight Management Systems, and UniLink Communications Management system, supporting RNP 0.3 instrument approaches, and CPDLC, digital clearances, FANS 1/A+, A...
