JetBlue and Fidelis New Energy announced a MOU to provide JetBlue at least 92 million gallons of blended sustainable aviation fuel from Fidelis’ Grön Fuels GigaSystem at the Port of Greater Baton Rouge in Louisiana. This SAF is expected to be delivered over the five-year term with a targeted start date of 2025. With this MOU, Fidelis’ negative carbon in...
Jet Aviation announces a work scopre extension of its ecisting Boeing 777 capabilities in Basel.The facility holds maintenance approval for over 50 aircraft types. Jet Aviation Basel is now approved for heavy maintenance on the Boeing 777 up to and including 15-year checks. The work scope extension required the company to invest in additional specialized tools and training for the Boeing 777...
Bombardier inaugurated its expanded London Biggin Hill Service Centre. Located at the bustling London Biggin Hill Airport, the newly enhanced London Biggin Hill Service Centre has grown to nearly 250,000 square feet, adding a suite of new maintenance and modification capabilities and full-service interior finishing capacity for its family of Learjet, Challenger and Gl...
Angolan aviation company, BESTFLY took delivery of the first Bell 505. The aircraft was handed over during a ceremony in Mirabel, Canada. BESTFLY was established in 2009 and today is Angola’s biggest private aviation company, carrying out a range of services, including aircraft management and charter, catering, flight planning, transfers and flight handling. Nuno Pereira, CEO a...
Airbus has revealed that it is developing a hydrogen-powered fuel cell engine. The propulsion system is being considered as one of the potential solutions to equip its zero-emission aircraft that will enter service by 2035. Airbus will start ground and flight testing this fuel cell engine architecture onboard its ZEROe demonstrator aircraft towards the middle of the decade. The A380 MSN1 fli...
Sevenair , the Portuguese airline specialized in regional flights has returned to São Tomé e Príncipe operating a BAe Jetstream 32, registration CS-DVQ, for STP Airways on an ACMI contract with the first flights fully booked. “We operated between May and September for STP Airways and both the relationship with the airline and the feedback from passengers was highly positive. Unfortunat...
Ryanair and Shell signed a MOU to advance the supply of sustainable aviation fuel at over 200 Ryanair airports across Europe, with particular focus on SAF supply at RYR’s largest bases like Dublin and London Stansted. While SAF is a key enabler of aviation decarbonisation, it currently accounts for just a small fraction of worldwide jet fuel usage. This agreemen...
Skyports Infrastructure have signed a MOU to plan the development and deployment of vertiport infrastructure for eVTOL operations. Skyports and Corporación América Airports will combine their distinct industry and technical expertise to share best practices for vertiport design concepts in markets of mutual interest. The collaboration will involve developing vertiport networ...
Federal Aviation Administration has certified the Pratt & Whitney Canada PW812D engine, designed to power the Dassault Falcon 6X business jet.The PW812D engine has shown exceptional performance during testing with more than 6,100 hours of engine testing, including 1,150+ hours of flight testing and 20,000 hours on the engine core. With the total PW800 family, more than 240,000 hours of te...
GetJet Airlines Latvia has confirmed receipt of its AOC on 30 November 2022 issued by the Ministry of Transport of the Republic of Latvia. Latvian AOC marks a new milestone for GetJet Airlines, the IOSA-approved ACMI and Charter carrier from Lithuania, in its expansion to Latvia. Rolands Ramins, Head of GetJet Airlines Latvia, emphasizes that the cooperation with Latvian authorit...
Airbus unveiled its DisruptiveLab, a new flying laboratory designed to test technologies destined to improve aircraft performance and to reduce helicopters’ CO2 emissions. The DisruptiveLab will evaluate a new aerodynamic architecture intended to reduce fuel consumption, as well as pursuing the implementation of hybridisation with a fully parallel hybrid propulsion system tha...
KinectAir announced the availability of corporate accounts for its growing fleet of aircraft accessible via its Part 135 partnerships. KinectAir has been operating its first regional “node” for six months with each flight being flown profitably. With this success has come demand from businesses operating in the Pacific Northwest to leverage KinectAir’s point-to-point air tra...
