Royal Jordanian's Crown Lounge, at Queen Alia International Airport, was named the winner of the Africa & Middle East Lounge of the Year Award 2015, by Priority Pass, part of the Collinson Group. This is the 11th year the prestigious Lounge of the Year Awards have taken place; Priority Pass named just 17 winners from over 850 international lounges in the Priority Pass program...
Aviation had its safest year on record in 2015 with one accident per five million flights, with the loss rate halving in five years, according to the Association of Asia Pacific Airlines (AAPA). The association says there were four major accidents operated by commercial airlines, including Germanwings flight 9525, which the co-pilot, Andreas Lubitz flew into the French Alps, and Metrojet flight...
Tonnage figures at Helsinki Airport fell by a substantial 13.8 per cent in 2015, coming in at 167,980 tonnes down from 194,932 tonnes in 2014. The Finnish airport’s international volumes were the main reason, down 13.5 per cent and totaling 154,869 tonnes, compared to 179,028 tonnes the year before. Domestic cargo also suffered in 2015 and there was 20.2 per cent fall in volumes to 3,9...
TAG Aviation’s Le Bourget Maintenance Service Centre has become a Rockwell Collins authorised business and regional systems (BRS) dealer. TAG Aviation Le Bourget is now authorised to promote and sell a wide range of the US manufacturer’s products including venue cabin management and entertainment solution, an interactive Airshow moving map and Tailwind airborne satellite TV. &ldq...
A team of Russian experts arrived in Cairo on Monday to launch checks into security measures at the Egyptian capital’s airport. The El Fagr newspaper said the outcome of this trip will make it clear how soon the air service between Russia and Egypt will be restored. On Tuesday, the delegation led by deputy head of transport security department of Russia’s federal air transport ag...
Airbus has declared its new Silicon Valley-based $150 million venture capital fund and innovation centre to be fully operational. The objective of the Airbus Ventures fund is identifying and investing in “visionary entrepreneurs in the global aerospace ecosystem,” says the manufacturer. It has already made an unspecified investment in an Arizona company, Local Motors, which has e...
Russian aerostructures supplier Aviastar has shipped fuselage panels for the second prototype MC-21 to the aircraft's developer Irkut. Production of the panels for the third example, and of the auxiliary power unit (APU) cover for the second, is also under way, says Aviastar. In 2016, the Ulyanovsk-based company will also produce the doors – 11 for each aircraft &nda...
Norwegian (DY, Oslo Gardermoen) founder and CEO Bjørn Kjos says Malaysian LCC brand AirAsia (AK, Kuala Lumpur Int'l) would be a "perfect match" for his airline. According to Norway's Dagens Næringsliv, Kjos said the two budget carriers could compliment each other's operations with Norwegian's European traffic feeding into AirAsia's Asian operations and vi...
Thanks largely to a revitalised and business-focused Virgin Australia, Perth Airport is now home to what is possibly the best domestic terminal in Australia; Virgin’s T1 Domestic Pier. Over 4,200 people were involved in the construction of T1 Domestic. The project took 1.8 million man-hours, resulting in a concourse that stretches 250 metres; longer than the height of WA’s largest s...
Air France told unions that it’s ready to add planes and routes to expand capacity by 2 to 3 percent annually from 2017 through 2020 in return for productivity improvements as an improved economic outlook boosts earnings prospects. Management told representatives of pilots, flight attendants and ground staff at a works council meeting Friday that Air France remains prepared to adopt...
An airliner with over 200 people on board diverted to Norfolk International Airport after experiencing engine problems while in flight Sunday morning. According to Robert Bowen with Norfolk International Airport, United Airlines flight 1470, a Boeing 757, left Newark Liberty Airport at 9:21 a.m. en route to Santa Domingo in the Dominican Republic with 213 people on board. About two h...
Airman who rescued a downed pilot from the sea and flew sorties at night to pick up French agents. Flight Lieutenant Bob Large, who has died aged 94, flew Spitfires on sweeps over northern France before becoming a pilot on the “Moonlight Squadron”, flying Lysander aircraft into remote fields in France to deliver and pick up agents. By late 1942, Large was one of the most experien...
Disgruntled travellers claim they were delayed for several hours before the shocking comment was made. This is the moment an air stewardess stunned passengers on board a Ryanair flight by telling them: "We have ice on the wing - we don't want to die!" The gob-smacking video has been shared on social network sites by one of the holiday-makers on board as they tried to fly f...
Nobody likes waiting at airports. But one of the only things worse than waiting beside the gate is waiting on the airplane itself, stranded on the runway, and an MIT engineering team has set out to solve that problem. Using a new queuing model, the MIT system can predict how long a plane will have to wait before takeoff so that air traffic controllers can better manage planes on the tarmac, cut do...
Uber is partnering with Airbus. The on-demand ride service will be offering stylish, swift, and costly helicopter rides around Utah during the Sundance Film Festival this month, and none other than European aerospace giant Airbus will be providing the choppers. In an interview with The Wall Street Journal, Airbus CEO Tom Enders said "It's a pilot project, we’ll see where it goes...
The Indian aviation sector, the tenth largest in the world, is looking even more curious. About 70 million domestic tickets are estimated to be sold in 2014-15 and the Centre has an ambitious aim to enable 300 million domestic ticketing by 2022 and 500 million by 2027; similarly, international ticketing is expected to touch 200 million by 2027. In contrast, our neighbouring giant, China, add...
Year after year, Airbus and Boeing seem to have been able to declare record orders, flying high on the back of an apparently never-ending boom. Reporting on their annual sales and delivery performances recently, however, the two global giants of commercial aviation appeared to signal that a hard landing is near. Seattle-based Boeing announced a net 768 orders in 2015, almost halving the...
easyJet plc has today received public credit ratings and intends to publish an Offering Circular for a Euro Medium Term Note (EMTN) Programme to facilitate access to new and cheaper sources of funding. easyJet has been assigned investment grade ratings of BBB+ (stable) by Standard & Poor’s and Baa1 (stable) by Moody’s which reflect the quality of easyJet’s business model,...
Goshawk Aviation Limited and Natixis announce the completion of a new USD470 million, 8-year recourse secured debt facility. The new facility will finance 17 aircraft. Natixis led the transaction as Sole Lead Arranger, Structuring Agent, and Bookrunner. Highlights New USD470 million full recourse secured facility with proceeds to be used to finance upcoming deliveries in addition to refinanc...
Passengers often joke that low-cost carriers will charge a fee for almost anything, and now an airline in Spain has been accused of illegally charging job applicants for an interview. Hopefuls who sought jobs as pilots and flight attendants with Air Europa Express were forced to pay a €60 (£45 or $65) fee to reach the final stage of the application process, unions have claimed. Th...
In order to discreetly communicate with each other professionals working on planes, the Underground or cruise ships have their own language. Their unique codes and jargon help them to deal with situations from dangerous threats like bomb scares and hijacking, to cleaning issues like vomit or glass - all without spreading panic among passengers. Here are some of the codes that the public are...
