Aeroflot ready for privatization, but its usefulness is not obvious in 2016, told reporters the head of the Board of Directors Kirill Androsov at the Gaidar forum in 2016, organized by the Ranepa and the Gaidar Institute. “Aeroflot is a joint stock company with listing on the Moscow exchange, with daily trading and with a large number of financial institutional investors, so no other addi...
Qatar Airways said it may seek to form a breakaway group within the Oneworld alliance should fellow member American Airlines Group Inc. continue to lend its weight to a U.S. push to curb the growth of Gulf rivals. Qatar Air, which joined Oneworld in 2013, won’t tolerate a situation where “conditions are no longer conducive to a fair business relationship and mutual respect,” C...
Virgin Atlantic Airways Ltd. is set to announce a deal for 12 Airbus Group SE A350-1000 jets with a list price of $4.3 billion as Richard Branson’s flagship carrier renews its wide-body leisure fleet, according to people with knowledge of the plan. U.K.-based Virgin will probably buy nine of the twin-engine planes directly from Airbus and take three from leasing firms, said the...
An appeals court in Germany on Thursday allowed Etihad to continue most of its disputed codeshare flights with airberlin for the winter schedule ending in March, handing the Abu Dhabi-based airline a partial victory. The court ruled that Etihad should be allowed to continue its codeshare agreement for 26 international routes but rejected its request to continue codesharing on five domestic Germ...
The Investigative Committee of Russia dropped charges against one of the suspects in the Total CEO plane crash case, traffic control trainee Svetlana Krivsun, her lawyer told RAPSI on Thursday. Investigators have not commented this information yet. Christophe de Margerie died in a plane crash at Moscow’s Vnukovo Airport on October 21, 2014 when his plane’s wing hit a s...
The Belarusian air carrier Belavia has signed an interline agreement (an agreement on mutual recognition of e-tickets) with Russia's Ural Airlines, Igor Cherginets, Belavia's Deputy Director General for Marketing and Foreign Economic Affairs, said on Facebook, BelTA informs. “Now, the two airlines can sell tickets on each other's flights. Ahead is further strengthening of mutu...
Russian Helicopters could be partly privatized this year; an option to sell 25% stake to a strategic investor is being considered, Industry and Trade Minister Denis Manturov said Thursday. "25%. It all depends on the situation, but we hope that it will happen this year," he said, answering a question about the possibility of privatization of the company. Russian President Vladimir...
U.S. Representative Kathleen Rice along with local aviation enthusiasts, introduced a legislation to preserve significant sites related to aviation history on Long Island at the Cradle of Aviation Museum on Thursday. Under the Long Island Aviation History Act, the Secretary of the Interior will be conducting a special study to evaluate the national significance of Long Island’s aviation h...
Airbus is expecting the first A350-1000 to enter the final assembly line in February, with first flight set to take place by the end of this year. The aircraft is at the pre-final assembly stage and chief operating officer Tom Williams says its development is progressing relatively smoothly. “It’s coming together really well, probably better than the -900,” he told Flightgl...
Here’s a stat that illustrates how Qantas International has turned the corner – for the month of October 2015, the number of passengers Qantas carried on its international operations to and from Australia grew by over five per cent, according to latest government data. The Bureau of Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Economics (BITRE)’s latest monthly ‘International...
A British Airways flight to Heathrow was forced to disembark all passengers and luggage after a traffic cone became wedged beneath the aircraft. A British Airways flight from Aberdeen to London was delayed for almost two hours after a traffic cone became wedged beneath the aircraft. Engineers could remove the item to inspect the damage only by disembarking all the plane&rsquo...
Callaway Golf asked the aviation giant to use its knowledge of air flow to take a swing at improving the driver. Here's a fact for the next time you need to win a bar bet: How fast does a professional golfer swing the club on a fairway drive? The answer, according to Callaway Golf, is a blistering 120 mph. With golf club head speeds well into triple digits, aerodynamics is a...
Bombardier threw down the gauntlet in front of Gulfstream when it announced the Global Express in December 1993, officially launching the battle between Montreal and Savannah for King of the Heavy-Iron class. With the aircraft’s super lean 46,500-lb. BOW, 41,500 lb. of fuel and 91,000-lb. MTOW, Bombardier officials boasted that the clean-sheet flagship would fly faster, farther and more effi...
Emirates will operate the Airbus A380 on its second of two daily services to Perth from August 1, replacing the 777-300ER that currently operates the EK424/EK425 rotation. The Qantas alliance partner commenced A380 services to Perth last May operating EK420/EK421. The second daily A380 service – EK424 departs Dubai at 10.10am, arriving in Perth at 12.50am the next...
Regional Express (Rex) has resumed services to Mornington Island in the Gulf of Carpentaria after CASA closed the runway there to aircraft larger than 5,700kg MTOW on December 16 “Recent runway repairs removed the runway length restriction yesterday and have enabled Rex to deploy its lighter Chieftain aircraft (operated by its subsidiary Air Link Airlines) as a shuttle service between Mor...
It always boggles the mind to look over the price-tags of new airliners whenever Airbus or Boeing update their list prices. Earlier this week Airbus released its average list prices for 2016, updated after a “price adjustment” of 1.1 per cent across its range. Not surprisingly the four-engine, double-decker A380 tops the table with a list price now at US$432.6 million...
• TAP EXPRESS will operate a new fleet of 8 ATR 72 and 9 Embraer 190 aircraft and increase capacity by 47% • More comfortable and ‘silent’ fleet, with 40% lower fuel consumption per passenger • New fleet evaluated in 400 million EUR • New Porto-Lisbon shuttle with flights every hour and prices starting at € 39 EUR &b...
Air Serbia, the national airline of the Republic of Serbia, has established one-stop air connections between Belgrade and the United States following a codeshare expansion with airberlin. Under the codeshare agreement, Air Serbia will place its flight code on 28 weekly services operated by airberlin between its Berlin and Düsseldorf hubs and three key US cities including New York, Chicago...
Wizz Air, the largest low-cost airline in Central and Eastern Europe, made great strides in calendar year 2015 and established itself as one of the best-performing ultra-low-cost carriers. Milestones for 2015 include a successful listing on the London Stock Exchange, a major brand refresh and livery update for its aircraft, a record aircraft order from Airbus at the Paris Air Show, and the entr...
Bombardier Inc. announced today the appointment of Patrick Ghoche as Vice President, Investor Relations, effective January 18, 2016. Mr. Ghoche will manage Bombardier’s relations with investors and analysts globally. He succeeds Shirley Chénier, who retired last year. “Patrick Ghoche is a highly dynamic executive with more than 15 years of experience in finance and accounting...
American Airlines and LATAM Airlines Group are applying for regulatory approval to enter into a joint business (JB) to better serve their customers. The JB, which is subject to securing regulatory approvals, will offer American and LATAM customers an expanded network with coordinated schedules providing seamless travel on the airlines’ flights between the United States an...
