Aeromil Pacific is launching a demonstration tour of the new Citation Latitude. The aircraft will be showcased by Textron Aviation during its customer conference in Sydney on 8th and 9th October 2015. Aeromil Pacific is a Cessna authorised sales representative (ASR) for the Citation range of Business Jets and Caravan Turboprops, and the Cessna sales team authorised representative...
ExecuJet Middle East have added three large-cabin business jets the past three months. An additional two aircraft are scheduled to join the fleet by the end of December, growing the fleet by over 20 percent. New additions include a Bombardier Global 5000, a Dassault Falcon 2000, a Gulfstream G450 and two Bombardier Global 5000 Vision aircraft. “As we continue to receive positive...
Rockwell Collins says that 2015 has been dominated by weak market conditions for business aviation, and that no real improvement is expected in 2016. The company says that an expected reduction of shipments in the mid-size and light jet sectors, as well as the production rate cut in the Global 5000 / 6000 line, has seen the company cut its expected revenues for the year. “… in b...
The Korean Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport (MOLT) has approved an Air France-KLM 3X-weekly direct cargo service between Amsterdam and Busan, starting at the end of October. MOLT has also upgraded Gimhae International Airport’s certification to allow Korean cargo operators to perform up to seven reciprocal cargo flights between Busan and Amsterdam from the end of October....
With just two days left before the FAA’s current authorization expires, congressional leaders are considering approving a six-month extension to hash out an agreement on a more comprehensive multi-year bill. House Transportation and Infrastructure (T&I) Committee chairman Bill Shuster (R-Pa.) introduced the six-month measure, H.R.3614, on Friday; it would extend the FAA&rs...
Guernsey has registered 1993-build Bombardier Challenger 601 msn 5125 as 2-SEXY. The aircraft is managed by Hangar8 on behalf of private owners, and is based at Oxford Kidlington Airport. Previous to being registered in Guernsey, the aircraft was on the Cayman Islands register as VP-CEI, and based in Moscow. “A unique 2-REG registration allows private business aircraft owners to create...
First announced in 2013, Tamarack Aerospace Group's active winglet system is nearing European approval for use on straight-wing Cessna CJs, with FAA certification expected to follow. “We are currently on track to certify our active winglets on all CJ 525 models by the end of the year,” Tamarack COO Brian Cox told AIN. “Sometime in Octob...
Tigerair has marked a new milestone today as the only carrier to operate direct flights between Singapore and the coastal city of Quanzhou in China’s Fujian province. The airline made its inaugural flight to Quanzhou today, and will ply the two cities every Monday, Thursday and Saturday. Lee Lik Hsin, Tigerair’s CEO, said, “Tigerair is constantly looking for opportunities...
The global airline industry currently has access to an abundance of fragmented capital, but there may not be an equal abundance of market awareness to adapt to potential changes in market conditions. This fragmentation has served the industry well during a period of significant growth and profits; however, due to the cyclical nature of the global airline sector, this lack of market awareness is le...
FLYHT Aerospace Solutions Ltd. and Avmax Group Inc. (“Avmax”) today announced an agreement for the Automated Flight Information Reporting System (AFIRS™) 228 for the two airlines Avmax owns, as well as its current and future leased fleet, for a total fleet size of 146 aircraft over a seven-year term. Avmax operates two airlines, R1 Airlines (“R1”) and Ch...
Dubai, United Arab Emirates. 28 September 2015: Dubai-based flydubai received its 50th aircraft. The delivery of the Boeing Next-Generation 737-800 completes the order the airline made at the Farnborough Air Show in 2008. Commenting on the completion of the order, Ghaith Al Ghaith, Chief Executive Officer, flydubai said: “In the six years since flydubai was launched we have built a networ...
PSA Airlines announced today that it will add an additional crew base, opening January 2016, at the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky Airport (CVG). This will be PSA’s fourth crew base: joining Dayton, Ohio, Charlotte, North Carolina and Knoxville, Tennessee. The wholly-owned subsidiary of American Airlines Group has doubled its fleet size and employee base since the announcement of the a...
fastjet, the low-cost African airline, announces its unaudited interim results for the six months ended 30 June 2015 and operational highlights of 2015 to date. Operational highlights H1 2015 · fastjet Tanzania o 51% increase in aircraft utilisation (from 6.4 to 9.7 block hours per aircraft per day) o 56% increase in total capacity (seats flown) o 94% punctuality – (arr...
Honiara, Solomon Islands – Solomon Airlines has announced it will commence operation of a new direct Honiara-Nadi service effective Wednesday, 04 November 2015, subject to government approval. The national carrier will utilise its flagship Airbus A320 on the route which is scheduled to operate ex-Honiara on Wednesdays and ex-Nadi on Thursdays. Timings as follow: Flight IE 708 operat...
A group of financial institutions led by T. Rowe Price this morning announced a $115 million capital injection for private flight membership program Wheels Up. The investment is backed by Fidelity Management and Research Company and NEA, and, according to a statement from the two-year old company, values it at $500 million. Wheels Up founder and CEO Kenny Dichter said that t...
After over forty years of connecting passengers with destinations across the United States, the low-cost leader Southwest Airlines stepped down a new path in 2010: flying beyond the border into international skies. The airline’s merger with AirTran Airways placed several new foreign dots on Southwest’s map, routes which the airline assumed in completely integrating the two compani...
Bhutan Airlines, formerly known as Tashi Air and with the ICAO code of B3, has begun service to Delhi (DEL) from its base in Paro (PBH), the only international airport in Bhutan. The service operates twice-weekly (Wednesdays and Sundays) via Kathmandu (KTM) in Nepal using the airline’s 122-seat A319s, of which it has two. The inaugural service was on Wednesda...
Lower fuel costs and steady travel demand continue to boost the nation's airlines, which enjoyed the most profita blequarter since 2007. Commercial airlines reported net income of $5.5 billion for the three months that ended in June, a 53% increase over the same period last year, according to financial data released Monday by the U.S. Department of Transportation. That's th...
Delta Air Lines is putting its money where its mouth is when it comes to on-time performance and its record of completing scheduled flights. The Atlanta-based carrier will give its corporate business travelers credit toward future flights if its competitors — American Airlines and United Airlines — have a better on-time performance and rate of completing scheduled domestic flights w...
On September 21st 2015 Hydromash Company delivered the first set of landing gear for the flying prototype of short- and medium-haul MS-21 passenger airliner (developed by Irkut Corporation); its major rivals are Airbus A320 and Boeing 737 jets, Hydromash’s press-service reports. «MS-21 is the top-priority project of the Russian aircraft industry. Hydromash has been pa...
China's Spring Airline, with HQ in Shanghai, has opened a direct flight between Guiyang, Guizhou province and Nagoya, Japan, as of Sep. 26, the first direct flight between southwest China and Central Japan. The airline is using an airbus A320 for the route, on Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays, departing Guiyang at 7:35 p.m. and arriving in Nagoya just after midnight, then departing Na...
