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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...

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 (U...

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....

South African Airways introduce new lounge

South African Airways has opened its new VIA lounge in the domestic departure area of OR Tambo International Airport. The lounge features a seating area, dining, an art gallery, an area for children to play, runway views and high speed internet, offering services for both relaxing and working.   SAA business class, Voyager Lifetime Platinum, Platinum, Gold and Silver members, SAA V...

12 people killed in Mi-8 helicopter crash in Eastern Siberia — prosecutors

Twelve people are believed to be dead after the Mi-8 helicopter crashed in the Krasnoyarsk Territory, in Eastern Siberia, on Friday, a senior aide to local transport prosecutor has said. The Yeniseysk transport prosecutors have launched an investigation into the accident, Oksana Gorbunova told TASS. "The helicopter of the Turukhan air company with rotation workers onboard crashed after...

Celestian angels: AZAL flight attendants

As we promised - we are showing you much more of what we have learned about AZAL celestial angels. Do you have any idea what a flight attendant has to know? How they are trained?  AZAL future flight attendants have practice on modern simulators that mimic the cabin and passengers. Cabin crew must be able to provide first aid:measure the pressure Make a cardiac massage...

Air Partner signs agreement with Air Cargo Integrators

Air Partner’s Freight division has signed a memorandum of understanding with Air Cargo Integrators (ACI) of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to develop their freight charter and global air freight products. Under the terms of the deal, Air Partner Freight has appointed ACI as its official freight sales and marketing representative in the vital Middle East hub of the UAE in order to develop...

Sharjah Aviation Services selects Cargo Flash management system

Sharjah Aviation Services has selected Cargo Flash Info tech’s Cargo Flash nGen-CMS as its warehouse and management suite, to be installed in the first half of 2016. The handling agent at Sharjah International Airport says nGen-CMS will significantly improve processes and services and improve transparency. It says the management suite from Cargo Flash will provide real-time information ab...

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