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Cathay Pacific confirms it will cut jobs after biggest review in 20 years

Hong Kong’s flag carrier Cathay Pacific Airways will cut jobs and consider shifting some flights to its short-haul arm after completing the biggest review of its business in two decades, it said on Wednesday. The company laid out the results of the review in a document seen by Reuters that was e-mailed to its 33,700 employees on Wednesday after 350 managers were briefed in an internal mee...

Lithuanian Airports: the Number of Passengers Has Surged to Record Levels in 2016

The year 2016 was the record year for Lithuanian Airports: 4.8 million passengers were served and the number of flights reached 52 thousand. The greatest increase was demonstrated by Palanga Airport where the number of passengers has surged by 60 per cent and reached 233 thousand. The CEO of Lithuanian Airports Gediminas Almantas was pleased that last year was the best year for Lithuanian Airpo...

Embraer Signs Order with Widerøe for up to 15 E2 Aircraft

  Embraer has signed a contract with Widerøe, the largest regional airline in Scandinavia, for up to 15 E2 family jets. The contract consists of three firm orders for the E190-E2 and purchase rights for 12 further E2 family aircraft. This flexible mix of pur​​​chase rights for E175-E2, E190-E2, and E195-E2 will give Widerøe the ability to grow their fleet with a family of air...

ATR introduces the first ATR 72-600 in Argentina

Avian Líneas Aéreas, the new subsidiary of the South American company Synergy Aerospace, has taken delivery of the first new-generation ATR 72-600 to fly in Argentina. The airline intends to start operations of its new ATR -600 series fleet during the first quarter of 2017, commercially branded as Avianca Argentina, following the carrier’s current certification process. The del...

Bell Helicopter's customer support moves forward with velocity into 2017

Bell Helicopter announced significant progress with its customer service – continuing to provide the best customer support in the industry. “In 2016 we launched a brand new support solution, our Customer Advantage Plans (CAP), and strengthened our support network, adding four new service centers across the globe,” said Glenn Isbell, executive vice president, Customer Support a...

Bombardier Business Aircraft Celebrates Completion of over 200 96-Month Inspections on Challenger Jets

Milestone demonstrates Network leadership in providing heavy maintenance Inspection at 96 months is one of the most thorough maintenance events in aircraft’s lifecycle Best-selling Challenger aircraft offer reliability and exceptional cabin comfort Bombardier Business Aircraft reaffirmed its tip-to-tail OEM expertise by announcing its Service Centre Network has complete...

easyJet upscales its focus on business, customer and digital with new roles

easyJet, Europe’s leading airline, has driven significant success from focusing on business fliers, the customer experience and digital innovation. We have now decided to restructure the team around these key areas, promoting Ian Cairns to a newly created role of Director of Customer and James Millett to a newly combined Director of Digital and Marketing. A key part of Ian’s new rol...

Magnetic MRO Signs a Component Maintenance Agreement with airBaltic

Magnetic MRO, Estonian-headquartered Total Technical Care organization and long standing partner of airBaltic, the flag carrier of Latvia, have signed a new maintenance agreement in respect of the wheels & brakes of Q400 and the wheels of CS300. Due to the new and advanced technologies used to manufacture the CS300, the larger variant of Bombardier’s all new C Series aircraft, ai...

BACA: The Air Charter Association partners with ACE for first ever conference and exhibition

As part of its drive to deliver ever greater value to its members and to enhance the profile and reputation of the air charter industry generally, BACA has teamed up with Air Charter Expo (ACE) to deliver the Association’s first ever conference and exhibition. ACE ‘17 takes place at London Biggin Hill airport on 12th September 2017. BACA works hard to find ways in whi...

Daher delivers 54 TBM aircraft in 2016 and prepares new integrated flight deck for TBM 900 version

Daher’s Airplane Business Unit announced the delivery of 54 TBM 900/TBM 930s in 2016, underscoring the success for these latest members of its very fast turboprop aircraft family – which continue to benefit from system enhancements. Two-thirds of the 2016 deliveries involved the TBM 930 version, which incorporate Garmin’s G3000 flight deck with the first-ever touchscreen-contr...

Flynas orders 60 Airbus A320neo Family aircraft

Flynas, Saudi Arabia’s leading low-cost carrier, has signed an agreement with Airbus for 60 A320neo Family aircraft. In addition to the 60 aircraft, Flynas has converted 20 A320ceo from a previous order to A320neo bringing the airline’s total firm order to 80 A320neo. The deliveries are scheduled to take place during 2018-2026. The agreement was announced today in Riyadh at a pre...

News Feed Flight recorder recovered at crash site of cargo Boeing-747 near Bishkek

One of the flight recorders has been recovered at the crash site of the cargo jet Boeing-747 near Kyrgyz capital Bishkek’s Manas airport, a source in the Kyrgyz Emergencies Ministry told TASS. "The search for the other recorder is in progress. Both will be handed over to Interstate Aviation Committee specialists, due to arrive tomorrow, for data retrieval and interpretation," th...