Bombardier Commercial Aircraft announced today that its CS100 aircraft has been awarded Type Validation by the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) following a comprehensive testing program. The EASA and FAA validations follow the CS100 aircraft Type Certification awarded by Transport Canada in December 2015. EASA’s validation paves the way...
The Red Arrows will not perform aerobatic stunts at Britain’s biggest air show for the first time in more than 50 years, because of safety fears after the Shoreham disaster. RAF chiefs have decided the risks of flying high-speed manoeuvres at low heights over built-up areas at the Farnborough Air Show are no longer “tolerable”, and the jets will be restricted to flypasts. T...
Bell Helicopter announced the successful demonstration tour of the Bell 412EPI throughout Nepal. The Bell 412EPI demonstrated landing and take offs from 15,200 ft., ground effect hover at nearly 18,000 ft. density altitude and then flew up to 20,000 ft. pressure altitude near Mount Everest with five passengers onboard. Bell Helicopter pilots also demonstrated the performance of...
Vistara, India’s fastest growing full service carrier, today crosses the milestone of flying 2million happy customers. Having the lineage of great brands – Tata Sons and Singapore Airlines, Vistara has swiftly gained one million customers in less than six months with addition of just two aircraft to its fleet. The airline with its focus on providing a personalized and seamless flying e...
The arrival of flight AC1926 from Toronto-Pearson at Warsaw Chopin Airport this morning further expands Air Canada Rouge’s presence in Central Europe. The non-stop seasonal service, operating four-times a week, makes Air Canada the only Canadian airline offering non-stop service between Canada and Poland. “We are pleased to add Warsaw, the Polish capital and a European cultura...
Barely two years after commencing flights between its Luxembourg and Zhengzhou hubs, Cargolux Airlines International S.A announced today that cargo volume on this route has surpassed 100,000 tonnes, just eight months after the carrier announced hitting the 50,000-tonne mark last October. The news was announced at the Air Cargo China 2016 event in Shanghai yesterday. Speaking at Air Cargo China,...
Following last week’s announcement of being the only airline awarded service to all nine Cuban destinations, Silver Airways has become the first U.S. airline to again sell regularly scheduled flights to Cuba with tickets for sale now at silverairways.com. Silver Airways, which operates more routes within Florida and between Florida and the Bahamas than any other airline, will be the first U....
Wizz Air, the largest low-cost airline in Central and Eastern Europe, today announced a new route from Budapest to Porto commencing on 4 September with two weekly flights on Wednesdays and Sundays. Wizz Air started operating flights from Budapest to Lisbon in March last year and Portugal quickly became one of the favorite destinations from Budapest for business and leisure travelers. In May thi...
Air Medical Group Holdings (AMGH), a leading U.S. provider of air medical transport services, has ordered new Airbus Helicopters H130s to launch the first-ever dedicated helicopter emergency medical services operation in India. AMGH has joined forces with an Indian firm, Aviators Air Rescue, and will initiate emergency medical services later this year. The new venture will primarily be run by Avia...
VIP aircraft charter operator, GainJet Ireland’s Air Operator’s Certificate (AOC) has been approved by the Irish Aviation Authority (IAA), giving the newly established private jet operator the ability to commence commercial operations. GainJet Ireland is a subsidiary AOC operation of Greek VIP aircraft operator, GainJet Aviation S.A (based in Athens, Greece) and is based at Shannon ai...
STS A01 is a “SCI-FI” based project, focusing on design ideas used in movies and video games industries. The name STS stands for “Sea To Space”, while A01 is a shortcut for Amphibian 01, which means that this vehicle can travel over land, air, and water. It can be used underwater as a submarine, then take off as aircraft and head to the space as a spacecraft. With ey...
Lufthansa Technik AG enters into a strategic partnership with the aviation data and records management software provider FLYdocs. As part of this agreement, Lufthansa Technik has become shareholder in the FLYdocs business, replacing the Private Equity partner GCP. FLYdocs will remain an independent entity that continues to drive the digitalization of paper-based processes under the current...
Airbus Helicopters, the top player in China's civil helicopter market, believes China will surpass the United States to be the world's biggest civil helicopter market soon－and aims to increase its market share from the current 40 percent to 60 percent by 2020. "The Chinese civil (helicopter) market might be the biggest one in the world in 2018 for light single and light twin helic...
Air France said on Tuesday the last four days of strikes by French pilots would cost the airline more than 40 million euros. A spokeswoman for Air France, who confirmed comments given by chief executive Frederic Gagey to AFP, said the company plans to meet unions by the end of the week. "Air France managed to conduct 80 percent of flights," the spokeswoman said. Air France...
As Peter Thiel wryly quipped, “we wanted flying cars and all we got was 140 characters”. This made us think, just how far are we away from realizing flying cars? Is this next on Elon Musk’s to-do list after he makes them all electric first? Just three days ago, Google co-founder Larry Page made the news with his $100 million investment to fund a flying car venture called Zee...
The U.S. State Department said on Tuesday it could not address whether Boeing has obtained a license to sell commercial aircraft to Iran, but a spokesman said the Iran deal allows licensing of commercial aircraft sales on a case-by-case basis. The department commented after Iran said it had reached an agreement with Boeing Co. for the supply of jetliners, reopening the country's skies to ne...
Low-cost airline Norwegian continues its UK expansion this week with the launch of its newest route from Edinburgh to the cosmopolitan city of Barcelona with fares from £34.90. From 15 June, Norwegian’s brand new twice weekly flights to Barcelona take off, departing on Wednesdays and Saturdays offering passengers an ideal schedule for a short summer getaway. More than 15,000 seats a...
Qatar Airways Chief Officer Cargo, Mr. Ulrich Ogiermann made several important announcements at a press conference attended by both Chinese and international industry media on the opening day of Air Cargo China 2016 in Shanghai. Mr. Ogiermann revealed that the world’s third largest international cargo carrier plans to become a major player in three new markets: Transpacific, Australia and...
During EBACE 2016 we had amazing opportunity to talk with VistaJet Chief Commercial Officer Ian Moore. Here are most important of our discussion. Q.VistaJet - a perfect example of how a company can work equally well on different markets, while having great results. What's the secret? It is no secret: our unique business model. We provide all the benefits of owning a personal j...
AsBAA, the Asian region’s non-for-profit representative trade body for business aviation today landed in Singapore to host a series of #AsBAAintheCommunity activities and events. These included the launch of its first Singapore Student Chapter event in association with Embry Riddle, Aeronautical University, a Regional Chapter AsBAA meeting hosted at AON’s Asia Pacific regional HQ, and...
Flying Colours Corp. Peterborough, the Canadian MRO, completions, and refurbishment company has received approval from the Bermuda Department of Civil Aviation to carry out maintenance work on business aircraft listed on the popular Bermudan registry. The approval, which was awarded in late May, enables Flying Colours to undertake heavy and line maintenance work on a full range of Bermuda regis...
