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Skywise Airline Suspended

After weeks of speculation on the state of the airline, Skywise Airline has been suspended from operating at any Airports Company South Africa (ACSA) airports The budget airline was previously temporarily grounded over a payment dispute with ACSA and the Air Traffic and Navigation Systems....

Cargo Plane Returns to Hangzhou Due to Tyre-Burst on Takeoff

A Zhejiang Loong Air (GJ) cargo flight heading toward Kunming Wednesday morning made an emergency landing at Hangzhou Xiaoshan International airport (HGH) after the aircraft suffered a tyre-burst while taking off, according to a source familiar with the matter. The Boeing 733 aircraft, Regis...

Australian Says New Analysis Backs Search Area for Flight 370

Australian authorities said Thursday that new analysis confirms they've likely been searching in the right place for a missing Malaysian airliner. Searchers have been combing a 120,000-square-kilometer (46,000-square-mile) part of the Indian Ocean since last year but have yet to turn up any trace of Flight 370. A wing flap was found in July washed up on remote Reunion Island. The new ana...

United Airlines to "Mobilize" Airport Customer Service Representatives with Apple's iPhone 6 Plus

United yesterday announced the airline will equip its customer service representatives in the company's U.S.-based hubs with Apple's iPhone 6 Plus, enabling agents to meet customers' needs more quickly while having access to additional operational information at their fingertips. United will begin distributing the devices to its more than 6,000 hub-based customer service repres...

South African Police Begin Probe into Country's National Airline

South Africa's Police Service will start an investigation into the country's state-owned airline, which is facing mounting financial losses while remaining reliant on government support. "We have an investigation that we will be conducting and the SAA board has been informed," Hangwani Mulaudzi, a spokesman for the Directorate for Priority Crime Investigations, known as the Ha...

Vueling A320 at Turin on Dec. 1, 2015, Rejected Takeoff Due to Bird Strike

A Vueling Airlines Airbus A320-200, registration EC-MBY performing flight VY-6515 from Turin (Italy) to Barcelona, SP (Spain), was accelerating for takeoff from runway 36 when the right hand engine (CFM56) ingested a bird prompting the crew to reject takeoff. The aircraft slowed safely and returned to the apron. A replacement Airbus A320-200 registration EC-JSY was dispatched to Turin, per...

Malaysia Airlines and Emirates sign agreement to expand partnership

Existing Interline agreement has been enhanced to a reciprocal codeshare partnership Malaysia Airlines and Emirates today announced a new partnership that will give their customers a seamless international network connecting Malaysia to more than 90 destinations on the Emirates network across Europe, Middle East, Africa and the Americas, exclusive frequent flyer benefits and world-class travel...

British Airways embraces Apple Watch technology

The use of the British Airways Apple Watch app has quadrupled in just four months, and in response the airline is introducing new scanners to make them easier, and faster to use. Customers will be able to slide their wrists under the new ‘Scan and Go’ devices to scan their boarding pass, print their own bag tags and speed through the airport.  Some 136 of the new gadgets are...

Turkish Airlines Extends Sharm El-Sheikh Flight Ban Until January 1

Turkish Airlines has extended the suspension of its flights to and from Egypt’s Sharm el-Sheikh until January 1, the company said in a statement on Tuesday. “Because of security issues over the airfield of Sharm El Sheikh our flights has been mutually canceled till 1st January 2016,” the statement reads. The company suspende...

Germany to join multinational tanker effort

Germany has revealed plans to join the Multinational MRTT Fleet (MFF) alongside the Netherlands, Norway and Poland, to share a fleet of Airbus Defence & Space A330 multi-role tanker transports. In 2014 the three other nations announced plans to share the burden of operating multirole tanker transports in Europe, and now Germany has decided that as its A310 tanker fleet ages, it will join th...

3 organisations stress importance of pilot mental health fitness

To strengthen the relationship between aviation medical examiners and pilots, the European Society of Aerospace Medicine, European Association for Aviation Psychology (EAAP) and European Cockpit Association (ECA) unveiled a joint approach to medical and mental fitness assessments of pilots. It endorses a key set of guidelines developed by the Aerospace Medical Association, taking into account the...

Latvian AirBaltic refused to buy Superjet 100

Martin Gauss, chief executive of Latvia's national airline airBaltic on December 1 confirmed that the company would not be buying planes from Russian manufacturer Sukhoi. The possibility that airBaltic might buy planes for regional routes from Russia in the form of the Sukhoi Superjet at a time of high tensions between that country and Latvia and its NATO allies had been a cause of widespre...

Flynas plans ambitious fleet growth as it maintains profitability

Saudi Arabia's domestic and regional low cost operator Flynas, is evaluating plans to increase its fleet by more than 300% with orders for as many as 100 aircraft. Speaking on the sidelines of the AACO general meeting at Jeddah, CEO Paul Byrne said that Boeing 737 Max and Bombardier CSeries could both be considered alongside the neo version of the existing fleet choice of Airbus A320. By...

Ryanair Seeks Norwegian Air, TAP Links As Aer Lingus Talks Fail

Ryanair Holdings Plc said plans to link its short-haul operations with long-haul routes are focused on Norwegian Air Shuttle ASA, Portugal's TAP and an unidentified U.S. carrier after talks with Aer Lingus Holdings Plc and Virgin Atlantic Airways failed to reach an agreement. Negotiations on providing feeder traffic for trans-Atlantic services should produce a deal next summer, Chief E...

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