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Flydubai flight to Beirut returns to Dubai with engine issue

A flydubai flight to Beirut was forced to return to its home airport on Tuesday morning after the aircraft developed a technical glitch. A spokesman for the budget airline said ground staff “decided that flight FZ157 should return to Dubai due to the performance of one of the engines”...

TATA SIA Airlines: Transformation of Aviation Sector can yield $250 billion by 2025

At a time when the government led by Prime Minister Mr. Narendra Modi has embarked upon an ambitious plan to unleash the growth potential of India’s economy,TATA SIA Airlines Limited released in Delhi today, a report titled, ‘Maximising the contribution of aviation to the India...

Kazakhstan Customs Authorities Refuse to Grant Customs Import Duty

In May 2015, Kazakhstan customs authorities charged substantial additional customs duties and taxes on BEK AIR, a Dutch-Kazakhstan joint venture which is the country’s first low-cost airline. Bek Air has a fleet of 7 Fokker 100 aircraft, operating 12 domestic destinations, this year it is expected Bek Air will transport more than 0ne Million passengers. In 2013-2014, the company...

AirAsia Japan granted Air Operator’s Certificate

AirAsia Japan Co., Ltd. (CEO: Yoshinori Odagiri) today announced that the airline has been granted the Air Operator’s Certificate by the Civil Aeronautics Act by Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, under the air transport business, Japanese Aviation Law Article 100. AirAsia Japan is scheduled to commence operations from their base at Chubu Centrair International Airpo...

Jota Aviation marks successful first year in the jet set

Jota Aviation, the specialist UK air charter firm based at London Southend Airport, is marking its first year of operations with its BAe 146-200 regional jet as its senior management attends the European Regions Airline Association’s annual general meeting in Berlin later this month. In its first year the aircraft will have flown near to 800 hours, flying as far afield as Marrakech and suppo...

airberlin starts off the fall season with stable capacity utilization

In September 2015, airberlin transported a total of 3,160,104 passengers. In light of an extensive capacity reduction by 7.2 percent, the number of passengers decreased by 6.4 percent as compared to the corresponding month of the previous year. Analogously, the revenue passenger kilometers (RPK) traveled within airberlin’s global flight route network decreased by 7.2 percent to 4.631 billion...

Innovative UK-based Airlines Firnas Airways launches

UK carrier Firnas Airways has launched a Gulf funding campaign in a bid to raise the US$50 million it requires for expansion. The airline’s founder and CEO, British entrepreneur Kazi Shafiqur Rahman, is confident Gulf investors will be keen to capitalise on an airline concept and business model that is unique in its scope and ambition. Firnas Airways will establish routes between...

OPINION: Unmanned aviation still a work in progress

Unmanned aircraft are the future of aviation, or so we are led to believe – not least because of their endurance, and the access they offer to some areas that cannot be reached by manned flight. It is generally accepted that they will complement the work currently carried out by manned aircraft, as well as facilitate moves into new markets. But this is easier said than done. Associated...

UK AAIB launches investigation into fatal King Air 200 crash

UK investigators are examining how a Beechcraft King Air 200 crashed soon after taking off from Stapleford airport in Essex on 3 October, killing its two crew members. The twin-engined turboprop, registration G-BYCP (archive image below), was owned and operated by the UK’s largest charter and management company, London Executive Aviation (LEA). AirTeamImages According to the ope...

Air France to cut widebody fleet, network, staff

Air France (AF,Paris CDG ) is to cut its longhaul fleet and workforce as part of a raft of new cost-cutting measures the airline's board plans to implement under its Perform 2020 plan. Following a breakdown in talks between management and flight crew unions on how to achieve an estimated EUR1.8 billion (USD1.98 billion) in additional savings, Air France's board said on Monday...

UAE'S GCAA AND Eurocontrol sign flight plan data exchange accord

The UAE's General Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) and Eurocontrol have signed an agreement at ATC Global, currently running in Dubai, to enhance co-operation between the two for flight data exchange. Frank Brenner, Eurocontrol’s Director General  (pictured above) revealed the agreement covers the exchange of flight data, updated flight plan informatio...

Portuguese competition watchdog okays Gateway control of TAP

The Portuguese Competition Authority (Autoridade da Concorrência - AdC) has given Gateway, a joint-venture between jetBlue Airways (B6, New York JFK) and Azul Linhas Aereas Brasileiras (AD,Campinas Viracopos) founder David Neeleman and Portuguese bus company Barraqueiro Group, the greenlight to acquire a 61% stake in the country's national carrier, TAP Portugal (TP, Lisbon...

Is this the plane of the future?

KLM's sleek and streamlined AHEAD aircraft is one of many proposed aircraft that could radically change the way we fly. The plane of the future could well be a sleek and streamlined aircraft with a “blended wing” if proposals by the Delft University of Technology in Holland and Dutch carrier KLM come to fruition. A blended wing is one that is seamlessly connected to the...

Air France Workers Rip Shirts from Top Managers in Jobs Protest

Air France executives were forced to flee with their clothes in tatters after workers stormed a meeting at Charles de Gaulle airport in protest at 2,900 planned job cuts. Human resources chief Xavier Broseta and Pierre Plissonnier, head of long-haul flights, scaled an eight-foot fence to escape, aided by security guards. Broseta emerged shirtless and Plissonnier had his suit ripped to...

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