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Airbus pursues Saudia A380 order with superdense 615 seater

Airbus Group SE is aiming to seal a prospective Saudi order for the A380 superjumbo by pitching a new 615-seat, two-class version it says would be the ideal congestion-buster for carrying pilgrims to Mecca. The European plane maker has offered Saudi Arabian Airlines, known as Saudia, the high-den...

Russia takes away aircraft certification from IAC

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev decided that the Intersate Aviation Commitee (IAC) must be banned from aircraft, engine and airfield certification in Russia. Instead, these duties should be transfered to the Russian Federal Aviation Agency and other state institutions. The move allegedly come...

Cargolux to employ more pilots and replace freighters

Cargolux International Airlines’ board has approved 100 additional pilot jobs in Luxembourg and is to replace two Boeing 747-400 Freighters with three nose-door equipped 747-400F. The carrier made the expansion plans at a board meeting on 25 November and fleet upgrades will expand its fleet from 25 to 26 747 aircraft until the third quarter of 2016. The next meeting over the collective...

Lufthansa Cargo freighter livery designed in support of aid organisation

A Lufthansa Cargo freighter is from now on flying around the world with the footprints of 24 children on its fuselage. The carrier has turned the MD-11F registered “D-ALCH” into a flying ambassador for the aid organisation Cargo Human Care. The colourful design was presented today at Nairobi International Airport. It symbolises the motto “Step by step. Giving children...

Aer Lingus looking across the Atlantic for business

Aer Lingus is expanding its services to the US, carrying high value pharmaceuticals and other medical products from Europe to the Americas. The Irish carrier’s director of cargo, Michael Sanfey tells Air Cargo Week (ACW) that the carrier increased services to San Francisco (US) to daily and it has further plans for the US. Sanfey tells ACW: “2015 is shaping to be a good year for...

Hazardous Airliner Landings Are Rare, Data Show, But Pilot Reporting Lags

More than 200 landing approaches made by commercial airliners over the past 15 years prompted cockpit emergency collision warnings -- the last possible alert before a crash -- yet most of the incidents weren't reported by pilots, according to global data collected by Honeywell International Inc. The hazardous approaches made up a minute portion of the more than 20 million analyzed flig...

Russia's UTair restructures $650mn debt with creditor banks

UTair (UT, Khanty-Mansiysk) has signed two agreements with eleven creditor banks to restructure RUB43 billion (USD657.9 million) worth of debt. The first agreement involves a syndicated loan for RUB18.9 billion (USD287.2 million) for a period of seven years while the second is for RUB24.1 billion (USD366.2 million) over 12 years. However, sources who spoke to Russia's Vedomosti newspaper sa...

Virgin Australia tops punctuality stats for October

Virgin Australia has returned to the top of the punctuality table, edging out Qantas as the nation’s most on-time domestic airline, government statistics show. According to figures from the Bureau of Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Economics (BITRE), Virgin had the highest percentage of on-time arrivals in October, with 89.8 per cent of its domestic flights reaching their destinati...

Chinese ATC to Adopt English-Only Policy

China will mandate that its air traffic controllers use only English when communicating with pilots of any airline starting in 2017, according to the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC). According to Zhao Yun, an official at the CAAC in Beijing, "the move will improve situational awareness for foreign pilots. By ATC communicating in English pilots will be aware of the positi...

Tibet Airlines Grows Market Share to over One Third in Tibet

As many as 1.02 million air passengers traveled in and out of Tibet Autonomous Region on the flights of Tibet Airlines(TV) in January-October 2015, the Lhasa-based carrier said on Thursday. Tibet Airlines has hit the 1 million passenger mark in the first ten months of the year. The airline said it holds a 32.7% market share in the Tibetan air travel market and has carried more passengers than a...

India May Displace UK as 3rd Largest Aviation Market by 2026: IATA

India is likely to become the third largest aviation market in the world displacing the UK by 2026, according to a forecast by global airlines grouping International Air Transport Association today. Besides, the IATA expects India's air passenger traffic to grow to 378 million passengers by 2034 with 275 new passengers likely to be added during this period. Globally, the IATA projec...

Four Middle Eastern Passengers Kicked Off Plane After Woman Said She Saw Dynamite Text

Four Middle Eastern passengers were removed from a plane after a woman claimed she saw one of them receive a text with the word "dynamite" and a code for another airport. Anti-terror officers were called to the incident just days after the Paris attacks which killed 130 people. The alarmed passenger said she became worried when a man made several phone calls in another language and...

Landing Gear Collapses As Jetliner Lands in Mexico City

Authorities at the Mexico City international airport say the landing gear collapsed on a Boeing 737 as it landed, but no injuries were reported. The plane is operated by the Mexican airline Magnicharters and was arriving in Mexico City from the Caribbean coast resort of Cancun. Airport authorities said Thursday that some of the 139 passengers were treated for "nervous crisis,"...

easyJet to add 8th aircraft to its Edinburgh operations

easyJet, Scotland’s largest and Europe’s leading airline, has today announced that it will be adding an additional aircraft to its Edinburgh operations from next year to cater for extra demand from its passengers and to enable the airline to fly to even more destinations from the airport. From summer 2016 there will be 8 easyJet aircraft based at Edinburgh operating on 36 routes....

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