Flexjet LLC, offering travelers access to the world’s most luxurious fleet of private jets, today accepted its first Legacy 450 midsized business jet from Embraer (NYSE: ERJ). Flexjet becomes the first fractional fleet provider to take delivery of the Legacy 450, which the FAA certified in August 2015. Additional deliveries of the Legacy 450 are scheduled for later this year, with a total of five...
India has finalized a plan to modernize their fleet of Su-30 fighter aircrafts, as a deal with Rafale has yet to be signed and the Indian Air Force urgently needs a stealth aircraft. An agreement between Russia and India on upgrades to the aging Indian Air Force Su-30 fighter aircraft fleet, sources in the Defense Ministry told Sputnik. The upgrade process and its impleme...
Etihad Airways, the national airline of the United Arab Emirates, will expand its services to Italy with a daily flight to Venice Marco Polo Airport. The new service will begin from 30 October 2016 and be served by an Airbus A319, offering 16 seats in Business and 90 in Economy. Together with Alitalia, its codeshare and equity partner, Etihad Airways will offer 35 weekly flights in and out of I...
MAC Interiors, UK-based airline interior specialists, continues to expand its customer profile and increase the number of orders after the acquisition by Magnetic MRO. Lately, the company had won an order to provide seat foams and covers for a number of Fokker 50 aircrafts; by which MACInteriors at the same time will significantly enhance its in-house capability as well as overseas...
STS Line Maintenance (STSLM), a division of STS Aviation Group, announces the opening a brand new line maintenance station in White Plaines, New York. The company will now provide on-call and scheduled aircraft services to all commercial and regional carriers operating out of Westchester County Airport (HPN). The new STS Line Maintenance station is powered by highly trained staff of Aircraft Ma...
Predicting the full impact of Britain’s exit from the European Union is the million dollar question which governments, economists and businesses are asking on a global scale following the Brexit referendum. Opinions vary significantly, and the full effect is unlikely to be known for years to come. While it is too early to reach any definitive conclusions in predicting the outcome of Brexi...
Fitch Rating’s large commercial aircraft (LCA) delivery outlook for 2016 and 2017 is intact despite some weakness in parts of the widebody aircraft market, delivery deferrals across most regions of the airline industry, and a likely decline in new orders in 2016 compared to 2015. While Fitch is more cautious than at the beginning of the year, the record order backlog combined with other s...
Ten British soldiers have announced their intention to sue the Ministry of Defense, after they suffered a traumatic near-death experience in a flight over Afghanistan in February 2014. The soldiers were on board a Royal Air Force Voyager jet, which was carrying 200 passengers total, when the plane began to fall. The captain, who had been taking photos of the cabin, had dropped his camera, wh...
Russia's the manufacturing firm Kuznetsov plans to produce an initial batch of the upgraded Kuznetsov NK-32.02 aircraft engines by the end of 2016, according to media reports. Russia will produce an initial batch of the upgraded Kuznetsov NK-32.02 aircraft engines by the end of 2016 in an effort to improve the country’s military aviation capabilities, media re...
Business aircraft flying in the U.S., Caribbean and Canada dove 2.1 percent year-over-year last month as Part 91 activity slowed, according to TraqPak data released Friday by business aviation services group Argus International. The company had projected a 0.6-percent rise in flight activity over last July. Argus analysts are more optimistic about this month, predicting a 4.5-percent increase from...
The first branded aircraft of the Belarusian air carrier Belavia will be put in use after 20 August, BelTA learned from Belavia Director General Anatoly Gusarov on 15 August. The executive explained: “After the aircraft goes through the customs clearance process, we will have to send information about its certain parameters to the aviation authorities of other countries in order to get f...
The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) today announced that Indonesia complies with International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) safety standards and has been granted a Category 1 rating. The FAA first assessed Indonesia’s civil aviation authority in September 1997 and found it in compliance with ICAO standards and then...
Russia’s newest tactical drone Korsar will undergo government certification tests within days, a spokesman for the United Instrument Manufacturing Corporation (affiliated with Rostec) has told TASS, adding that all three drones of that type to be tested were operational. Some media said earlier there was only one sample of Korsar, which had crashed during a test flight. "This is n...
Spatial, the UAE based manufacturer of full flight pilot and cabin crew simulators, has completed a major upgrade of its manufacturing facilities in the RAKIA Free Zone. The company has now completed a 12,000 square foot factory extension complete with a temperature and pressure controlled composites processing plant, a fully integrated CNC machine centre and a automation division building PLC...
Irkut Corporation delivered to Central AeroHydrodynamic Institute named after professor N.E.Zhukovsky (TsAGI) the MC-21 fuselage designated for static tests to confirm the strength characteristics of the new aircraft and to provide certification of the type for static strength. On August 12, the MC-21 fuselage was delivered to Zhukovsky from Irkutsk by An-124 freighter. In the near future other...
Fatalities in crashes of small private planes have fallen to the lowest levels in decades as industry and government work to address an area of aviation that has lagged behind jetliners in dramatic safety improvements. While aviation crash analysts caution that it’s still too early to say for sure that the data represents a long-term trend, the declining number of fatal crashes and deaths...
UK investigators have reiterated the need to understand aircraft behaviour in various modes after the stall-protection system intervened on an EasyJet Airbus A320 during a visual approach to Paphos. It had been conducting a left-hand circuit to runway 29, following a service from London Luton on 7 January last year. The aircraft had been cleared to descend from 4,000ft to...
Boeing Co said it will not increase 787 output and could further cut 777 output unless sales of both jets improve, its clearest indication yet that its production of large jetliners may have peaked for now. "If the market's not going to demand it, we're not going to go," Chief Financial Officer Greg Smith said on the sidelines of an investor conference in New York by glob...
Some 15 Russian air companies are ready to resume chartered flights to Turkey as permission is in place, head of Rosaviatsiya Alexander Neradko told reporters on Saturday. "They are about 15 companies," he said. All the companies, which formerly served chartered flights to Turkey, would like to offer flights, he added. Earlier in the day, he told reporters tt may take Russian ai...
The first half of the year has certainly been a rough ride to date for the air cargo industry, but there is optimism in the air. Boeing’s Tom Crabtree, who is the US aircraft manufacturer’s air cargo airline market analyst, is sure there are better months on the horizon. He feels the industry is still on track to achieve growth in 2016 compared to 2015, and forecasts a bett...
The world’s premium airlines have rushed to make their first and business class cabins pleasure domes of comfort. Caviar, celebrity chefs and seats that recline 180 degrees into beds are now mandatory if you’re going to compete for the globe’s top trotters. A less visible industry trend now accompanies these high-tech thrones, and the battle for supremacy is just as fierce:...
