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AirwaysNews’ 2016 Aviation Predictions

As 2015 is coming to an end, 2016 is shaping up to be a year of big announcements and changes in the aviation and airline businesses. To predict just what these will be, our contributors, industry experts, analysts and staff have assembled their own educated guesses about the forthcom...

Civil Aviation Department gets RM700 million for upgrades

The Civil Aviation Department (DCA) is getting a RM700 million upgrade to its air traffic management systems to keep up with increasing demands. A DCA official told theSun that the new system will be able to process significantly more data and information, which will allow Air Traffic C...

The highs and lows of another turbulent year in aviation

The aviation sector in 2015 was extremely busy internationally and domestically, not least with the €1.36bn acquisition of Aer Lingus by IAG having been finalised during the year. There will be further major change too, with Dublin-based airline CityJet poised to come under new control in coming weeks, and UK transport group Stobart also eyeing up a possible sale of its regional air divisi...

ViaSat sees Yahsat move into inflight as sincere form of flattery

Competition is heating up in aviation’s regional satellite connectivity market, with Abu Dhabi’s Yahsat gearing up to trial a Ka-band service on an Etihad Airbus A320. ViaSat is, of course, familiar with Yahsat after a 2011 deal fell through and the Emirati company teamed up with competitor Hughes. So is ViaSat worried about competitors emerging in regional pockets, given that it...

United Pilots To Get 13 Percent Pay Hikes in 2016 if They Approve Contract

United Continental Holdings Inc. rose the most in two weeks after pilot leaders agreed to send a proposed contract extension to union members for approval. Ratification by rank-and-file aviators would help labor peace with a crucial work group at United Airlines. Executives are still seeking to unify employees more than five years after the carrier was created in a merger between former United...

Tianjin Airlines takes China's first E195s

Tianjin Airlines has taken delivery of two Embraer 195s, the first of the type in China. The carrier took delivery of the aircraft, registered B-3100 and B-3108 on 24 December. The regional jets, equipped with General Electric CF34-10E powerplants, are configured with 122 seats in an all-economy layout. The airline plans to deploy the regional jets on the Tianjin-Qingdao-Wenzhou and Tia...

IndiGo inducts 100th A320

Indian low-cost carrier IndiGo has taken delivery of its 100thAirbus A320 aircraft. The company celebrated the event with a ceremony at New DelhiInternational Airport, says IndiGo in a statement. The aircraft bears registration VT-IDR. Flightglobal’s Fleet Analyzer shows that IndiGo’s fleet of 100 A320s has an average age of just 3.6 years. It has...

Germany Plans Spot Drug Tests On Pilots

Germany plans legislation requiring random drug and alcohol testing of pilots, hoping to reduce the risk of a repeat of the Germanwings crash in March. The plans follow the recommendation of a task-force set up by the Transport Ministry, after a pilot barricaded himself inside the cockpit of a plane operated by Germanwings and crashed it in the Alps, killing all 150 people on board. Prosecut...

Kiwi Regional Air shareholder eyes divestment

Kiwi Regional Airlines (KRL, Hamilton) shareholder 2 Cheap Cars is looking to dispose of its 10.4% stake in the airline. Eugene Williams, the CEO of the used car importer and retailer, told New Zealand's Business Desk news that the firm had "never intended to be a long-term investor" in the carrier which launched domestic operations in October this year. "When we first got in...

AtlasGlobal Ukraine drops An-148 plans

AtlasGlobal UA (UH, Lvov) managing director Sergei Podgorodetsky says that after a full due diligence of the type, his airline has formally abandoned plans to acquire An-148-100s from local Ukrainian manufacturer Antonov Design Bureau (Gostomel). Speaking to Russian business daily Delo, Podgorodetsky attributed the decision to the type's overinflated price. "We considered the possib...

Etihad to acquire stake in Air Malta?

Air Malta (KM, Malta) is close to finalizing a strategic partnership agreement with Etihad Airways (EY, Abu Dhabi Int'l) aviation sources in the Maltese capital, Valletta, have revealed. Speaking to The Times of Malta newspaper on condition of anonymity, the sources said airline chairwoman Maria Micallef and senior officials from the Office of the Prime Minister had conducted the negotiatio...

Nigeria aviation agency tasks airlines to pay outstanding debts

The Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority, NCAA, has appealed to domestic airlines to liquidate all outstanding debts to the authority and other aviation agencies in the country. The NCAA made the appeal in a statement issued by its Acting General Manager, Public Relations, Sam Adurogboye, on Sunday in Lagos. “Safety is a collective responsibility and we appreciate the cooperation from all...

You can buy apples kissed by flight attendants for $20 online

Apple products are a big seller on China’s eBay-equivalent website Taobao, but what about actual apples? People’s Daily Online (via The Daily Mail) is reporting that there’s been a rise of listings on the website of flight attendants supposedly kissing apples and selling them to interested customers. The apples, some of which claim to have been kissed by 500 air hostesses,...

I overcome a major fear in my life with a flight on this awesome personal seaplane

By Benjamin Zhang As Business Insider's transportation reporter, flying on planes is an integral part of my job description. Unfortunately for me, acrophobia is also a major part of life. Simply put, I don't like heights. Although I thoroughly enjoy flying on big airliners, small planes still bug me. I don't like the instability, the single engine, and I don't like the a...

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