Point to point long distance travel is, for the most part, efficient for passengers and profitable for companies. Between the airlines, railways, and highways most places in the world are quickly and readily accessible with respect tothe limitation of today’s technology. As time and technology has advanced, travel has only gotten easier and quicker. While long distancetravel may be...
Inmarsat partners with Mahata Aero Teknologi, Lufthansa Systems and Lufthansa Technik to rollout award-winning connectivity service on 50 Airbus A320s Inmarsat, the world’s leading provider of global mobile satellite communications, has signed a contract with Mahata Aero Teknologi (MAT), an Indonesian wireless technology provider, to deploy Inmarsat’s GX Aviation infl...
The independent surveyor in the presence of an official GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS adjudicator measured the counter in Rublev business lounge — its length is 34m. After the record was confirmed, the adjudicator presented Ms. Tatyana Kuznetsova the CEO of LLC Sheremetyevo VIP with the GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS certificate. “It is a special honor for Sheremetyevo International Airport to ach...
Longstanding Bombardier customer Rega has chosen the versatile and dependable Challenger 650 aircraft for its new fleet of air ambulances The Challenger 650 aircraft is the life-saving platform of a new generation, with a smooth ride that benefits passengers receiving medical care, minimizes pilot fatigue and extends the life of mission equipment Bombardier has proudl...
Gulf Air, the national carrier of the Kingdom of Bahrain, has selected Honeywell's GoDirect® Flight Efficiency analytics software to reduce fuel costs across its entire Airbus and Boeing fleet and to help minimize the carbon footprint of the airline. The innovative Connected Aircraft service analyzes a multitude of flight-related factors to optimize fuel efficiency, aiming t...
The Latvian airline airBaltic has concluded the first half year of 2018 with a total revenue of 180.8 million euros, which is a 19% increase over the same period last year. At the same time airBaltic has carried 1.9 million passengers, an increase of 20%, and performed 13% more flights during the six months of 2018. Martin Gauss, Chief Executive Officer of airBaltic: “For the last few yea...
The EBAA welcomes the new Performance Based Navigation Implementing Rule (PBN-IR). It opens the door to the large deployment of EGNOS-based procedures at secondary and tertiary airports. EGNOS (1) enables precision approaches with vertical and lateral guidance – so-called LPV. LPV procedures and LNAV/VNAV(2) approaches will be implemented on all runway ends without precision approach by D...
The first Ultra Long Range Airbus A350 XWB to be delivered to launch customer Singapore Airlines has rolled out of the paintshop in the carrier’s distinctive livery. Now at an advanced stage of production, the aircraft will undergo further testing before being delivered to the airline in the coming months. Singapore Airlines has ordered seven A350-900 Ultra Long Range aircraft, and all of...
Five weekly Boeing 777-300ER flights between Abu Dhabi and Canada’s largest city, Toronto Effective 28 October 2018, Etihad Airways will increase its flights from Abu Dhabi to Canada’s largest city, Toronto, from three to five weekly services. The flights will be operated by Boeing 777-300ER aircraft, featuring 40 seats in Business Class and 340 in Economy Class. Robin Kamark,...
Gulfstream Aerospace Corp. announced it has designed and delivered a state-of-the-art Gulfstream G550 medevac aircraft that will revolutionize in-flight medical care. The modified G550 was delivered to the Beijing Red Cross Emergency Medical Center during a delivery ceremony at Gulfstream’s headquarters in Savannah. Gulfstream President Mark Burns and Beijing Red Cross Emergency...
AMAC Aerospace proudly announces that a new maintenance contract on a head-of-state A320 aircraft has been awarded to the facility in Basel, Switzerland. Besides a C-Check, that will be performed on the narrow-body, AMAC will also upgrade the existing IFE (inflight entertainment system) with the improvement to stream HD content to the passengers’ personal electronic devices, such a mobile...
The contract, which is worth approximately 120 million euros to Leonardo, is one of the largest in recent years in the European baggage handling field This important achievement has drawn on Leonardo’s exclusive cross-belt technology, which is also in use with other major logistics operators Airports in Europe and in the Gulf region, including Rome Fiumicino, Geneva, Paris Orly, Lyon,...
Award-winning airline brings renowned German football team FC Bayern München to the U.S. for the team’s 2018 U.S. tour Qatar Airways is the Global Launch Customer for the state-of-the-art A350-1000 aircraft, which commenced commercial service in February 2018 Qatar Airways became the long-term Official Airline Partner of FC Bayern München this month Qatar Airways is d...
From 1969 to 1990, Canadair produced more than 120 examples of the purpose-built CL-215 water bomber. Since then those airplanes, and the turbine-powered follow-on CL-415, fought fires by dropping millions of gallons of water scooped up into a set of large internal tanks. Availability of aviation gasoline and the maintenance efforts required to keep the craft’s World War II era radial eng...
The Government of the Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg has ordered two H145M multipurpose helicopters for defence and security missions. Together with the helicopters, Airbus will also provide a training and support package to its customer. The helicopters will be delivered before the end of 2019 and will enter into service beginning of 2020. With a maximum take-off weight of 3.7 tonnes, the H145M can...
Airline confirms summer 2019 schedule with new route and increases from Dublin and Shannon Flights from Cork Airport to Providence-Boston to return next summer Norwegian continues its growth in Ireland by announcing its new expanded 2019 summer schedule with 37% more weekly departures to the USA and Canada. Consumers can now book the airline’s lowest fares for travel to the US East...
Deliveries of 22 AH-64E Apache and 15 CH-47F(I) Chinook helicopters to India begin in 2019 Boeing and India recently took a significant step toward modernizing the Indian Air Force’s helicopter fleet by completing the first flights of Apache and Chinook helicopters destined for delivery next year. “We look forward to delivering this phenomenal capability to India,” sai...
Signed agreement to explore the use of new materials for innovative mechanical components New steps forward for Innovation Hub, the 2016 agreement between Leonardo and Politecnico di Milano, with the significant target to reduce vibration and noise levels in the cabins and prospects for use in search and rescue and emergency medical services (Comfort project) An innovative research project...
Diamond Aircraft is re-introducing the DA40 Lycoming IO360 aircraft with the new Garmin G1000 Nxi and having the aircraft on display at EAA Airventure 2018, booths 9-14 from July 23 – July 29th, 2018. The Lycoming version of the DA40 has been upgraded with the new Garmin G1000 NXi, Mid-Continent Standby Attitude Module, USB ports for pilot and co-pilot and available reclining front s...
Programme to help meet global demand for pilots over the next 20 years. Mexico City-based pilot school Escuela de Aviacion Mexico to be launch partner Reflects Airbus’ commitment to support airline customers in contributing to long-term availability of qualified flight crew, strengthening flight crew basic flying skills* In its latest Global Services Forecast, Airbus predict...
Alsim is pleased to announce the sale of an AL250 and an ALX (Multi Engine Piston and Medium Jet) to French flight school Trimaille Aero Formation, located in Toussus-le-Noble, next to Paris. Trimaille Aero Formation trusted Alsim from the beginning, and did not hesitate to reiterate their confidence several times: before their latest acquisition of two new simulators...
