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Boeing, Air Europa Announce Order for 20 737 MAX 8s

Wizz Air Strikes $2.5 Billion Engine Deal With Pratt & Whitney

Wizz Air Holdings Plc, the largest low-cost airline in Central and Eastern Europe, announces that, following a competitive selection process, it has agreed with Pratt & Whitney to equip its 110 Airbus A321neo aircraft with Pratt & Whitney’s PurePower Geared Turbofan engines. Deliveries...

Norwegian signs first ever charter agreements in the U.S.

Norwegian signs charter contracts with Apple Vacations and Funjet Vacations to operate routes from the United States to the Caribbean and Mexico. Norwegian has signed charter agreements with Apple Vacations and Funjet Vacations for the winter season 2017. Norwegian will station three Boeing 737-8...

Latvia’s airBaltic Signs Up for Bombardier C Series Aircraft Smart Parts Program

Bombardier Commercial Aircraft and Latvian flag carrier Air Baltic Corporation AS (airBaltic) announced today that the airline has selected Bombardier’s Smart Parts Program to provide component support for its fleet of  20 all-new    C Series aircraft.  The  five-year agreement positions airBaltic as the second customer for the C Series aircraft Smart Parts Prog...

Gulf Air awards Rolls-Royce $900m contract for Trent 1000 engines

Gulf Air, the Kingdom of Bahrain’s national carrier, has awarded Rolls-Royce a $900m contract for Trent 1000 engines to power 10 Boeing 787-9 Dreamliners. The contract also includes long-term TotalCare® service support. In addition, Gulf Air also has the option to purchase the same engine to power six further Boeing 787-9s. The aircraft all form part of Gulf Air’s recently an...

WOW air placed $85 million CFM56-5B engine order

In a special signing ceremony here today, Iceland-based WOW air announced it has selected CFM International CFM56-5B engines to power four new Airbus A321ceo (current engine option) family aircraft. The firm engine order is valued at $85 million U.S. at list price. The airline, which began commercial service in 2011, currently operates a fleet of seven CFM56-5B-powered A320...

Safran Landing Systems bolsters leadership in Brazilian market for commercial airplane wheels and carbon brakes

Brazilian airline Azul has chosen Safran Landing Systems’ wheels and carbon brakes for its Airbus A320neo and A350 XWB commercial jets. With this latest contract, Safran Landing Systems now supplies wheels and carbon brakes to the four leading Brazilian airlines, further strengthening its leadership in the Brazilian market for mainline commercial jets (over 100 seats). Vincent Mascr&ea...

Germania may order 25 Airbus A320-family jets: sources

Airbus is set to announce a key order for 8-10 of its biggest twin-engined model, the A350-1000, from Virgin Atlantic after beating Boeing to a scarce order for big jets as economic and political uncertainties overshadow the Farnborough Airshow. The order, worth some $3 billion at list prices, could perk up Monday's opening of an event clouded by geopolitical uncertainty, including Bri...

Emirates Signs 10-Year Services Agreement with Unison Industries

Emirates signed a ten-year After Market Services Agreement with Unison Industries in support of the largest GE90 and GP7200 engine fleets in the world. The agreement extends through 2025 and covers external Unison new parts and component repairs for GE Aviation and Engine Alliance engine families in the Emirates fleet. “We are very pleased to have Emirates as a key customer on this strate...

Blue Air - the biggest Romanian carrier

We are proud to present to you our operational figures for the first six months of 2016, a milestone year for Blue Air’s development. The airline has had an excellent start of 2016, having become a full member of IATA (International Air Transport Association), shortly after receiving the IOSA (IATAOperational Safety Audit) certification for the highest safety standards. This May, Blue Air recei...

British Airways plane takes 6,000 mile ‘flight to nowhere’ after minor fault

A British Airways flight took a 6,000-mile ‘flight to nowhere’ due to a ‘minor technical fault’. The plane did a u-tun at the halfway point of its journey to Tokyo, which meant passengers touched down at Heathrow an hour after they were due to land in the Japanese capital. Among the passengers was one half of the dance music duo Gorgon City. BA faces a pay...

Sounding an SOS on looming pilot shortages

After coping with terrorism, bankruptcies and consolidation, the largest US airlines are facing a new problem: They may start running out of pilots in about three years. That looming pilot deficit will soar to 15,000 by 2026, according to a study by the University of North Dakota’s Aviation Department, as more captains reach the mandatory retirement age of 65 and fewer young people choose...

easyJet launches inaugural flight to Gibraltar from Manchester Airport

easyJet, the UK’s largest airline, has launched its first flight from Manchester to Gibraltar. easyJet now flies to 45 destinations from Manchester and bases 11 aircraft there. The airline carried over 2.6 million passengers on flights to and from the airport last year. easyJet is expected to fly 30,000 passengers between the destinations annually, operating twice a week throughout this s...

Aeroflot’s Pobeda hits 2 million passenger mark for 2016

Pobeda, the low-cost subsidiary of PJSC Aeroflot (Moscow Exchange ticker:AFLT), has carried 2 million passengers since the start of 2016, reaching the mark two months earlier than in 2015. More than 5 million passengers have flown with Pobeda since it started operations in late 2014. Andrey Kalmykov, CEO of Pobeda, said: “Demand in the Russian market for low-cost fligh...

Flydubai partners with Booking.com to launch hotel booking services

Low-cost airline flydubai said on Monday that it has partnered with online travel agent Booking.com to add hotel booking services to its website. Powered by Booking.com, Hotels.flydubai.com features more than 954,000 hotels worldwide. Passengers can read other guests’ reviews and book rooms with a range of payment options. “With this website, we are able to offer our passengers e...

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