Russian State Duma deputy Alexander Starovoytov sent a letter to Russian Prosecutor General Yury Chaika requiring to give a legal assessment of Tatiana Anodina competence in the Interstate Aviation Committee (IAC). Starovoytov asked the prosecutor's office to find out whether the head of IAC, Anodina, was not forging protectionism for Transaero, which belonged to her son Alexander Pleshakov...
British Airways-owner IAG said it was not in talks with Finnair, denying a report in a Finnish newspaper that had fuelled speculation it might take a stake in the majority state-owned Finnish airline. "We haven't been in any discussions with Finnair," a spokeswoman for IAG told Reuters on Thursday. The online edition of Finland's business daily Kauppalehti had cited an IAG...
Russian low cost airline Pobeda (part of the Aeroflot Group) started ticket sales for international flights, according to the carrier's website. Bratislava and Vienna became Pobeda’s first international destinations. The Russian Transport Ministry approved the airline’s provisional admission for 7 international routes from Moscow to Bratislava, Dresden, Cologne, Bergam...
Consortium of European companies, which includes 64 enterprises, has completed a research project for development of a “smart” (or “morphing”) wing, which is able to adjust its aerodynamic configuration and generate reports about its technical condition, Interfax reports with reference to Aviation Week. It took €51 million and four years to implement the projec...
International Launch Services (ILS), a subsidiary of the Russian Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Centre, has signed a contract with the international satellite communications organisation Intelsat on five launches of the Proton-M carrier rockets until 2023 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Khrunichev Centre’s press service reported on Wednesday. "International Launch Servi...
Russian Helicopters expect to keep the portfolio of orders at the current level in two coming years and to sell 230-280 helicopters a year, deputy CEO of the company Alexander Scherbinin told TASS on Thursday. Current production and sales of Russian Helicopters are aligned with the global market situation and production capacity of the company, Scherbinin added. "It [the capacity] is ab...
Hundreds more flights were grounded on Thursday as the strike by Lufthansa's main cabin crew union entered its sixth day with no sign of compromise. Cabin crew staff started a series of strikes at Lufthansa last Friday to fight for an improved pension offer for employees. Lufthansa, which says it needs to cut costs in order to compete with budget rivals and leaner Gulf carriers, has said...
British newspaper readers last week could be excused for believing that humankind is poised on the cusp of a new Concorde era – indeed, an era of Concorde on steroids. As the Daily Mail put it with typically breathless excitement: “Could we soon fly London to Sydney in FOUR HOURS? BAE invests in 4,000mph hybrid rocket jet engine firm”. And, the Mail went on: “Flights fro...
The updated livery retains parent company Evergreen Group’s compass design, while simplifying the tail colours. It also adds more movement to the lower portion of the aircraft’s fuselage. The aircraft, MSN 44554, is the first of four 777s that the airline is taking from Air Lease Corporation, and is the 22nd of the type in its fleet. Boeing says that the carrier plans to add seve...
It’s show time again for the business aviation industry. The annual NBAA convention, the largest and longest-running event within this niche sector, is returning to the bright lights of Las Vegas – a fitting host for a market that is starting to emerge into the light following a miserable few years. “There is certainly a climate of optimism in the industry right now,” sa...
Air New Zealand is expected to announce on Friday it will start flying to Vietnam. Sources say the national carrier will begin flying to the South East Asia destination in 2016. Ho Chi Minh City is the national gateway to Vietnam but it also has a major airport in Hanoi. SHANE WENZLICK/FAIRFAX NZ Air New Zealand chief strategy, networks and alliance officer Stephen Jones will make...
Russia's ban on flights to Egypt will last at least several months, President Vladimir Putin's chief of staff has said. Sergei Ivanov was quoted in Russian media as saying it would be impossible to dramatically change the policy in a short time. He said the restrictions would last "for several months, as a minimum," according to the RIA Novosti news agency. Russia suspen...
