The European Space Agency’s Vega light rocket has made its sixth successful launch, from Kourou, French Guiana with a payload to test high-precision measurement technologies scientists hope will pave the way for the detection of so-far undiscovered gravitational waves. The 1h 45min flight VV06 put the Airbus Defence & Space-built LISA Pathfinder into an elliptic Earth orbit, from whic...
Wizz Air announced further growth to its low fare route network from FYROM with three new Skopje services. WIZZ will connect Skopje with Berlin Schoenefeld from 21 March 2016, while the new Skopje services to Copenhagen and Bratislava will commence in 22 and 28 March, respectively. Each new route will operate two times a week. Bratislava and Copenhagen, the capitals and econom...
Bangkok Airways Public Company Limited announced that the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) stated the outcome from aviation safety assessment of Civil Aviation Administration of Thailand (CAAT) in October 2015 has been assigned to Category 2 which cause Thailand’s carriers to be able to continue existing service to the United States, but unable...
Pan Am International Flight Academy and parent company ANA Holdings (collectively “Pan Am”) is offering a combined training program for pilots seeking to earn both an EASA type rating along with the matching FAA type rating concurrently, at their Miami Training Center and World Headquarters. Airline customers and Pilots attending the recently completed...
James Hogan, president and chief executive officer of Etihad Airways has officially opened the airline's First and Business Class Lounge at JFK International Airport. The new lounge, located close to the gate area after the security checkpoint in JFK’s International Terminal 4, is the second in the United States to join the airline’s collection of premium lounges offe...
Since entering service three years ago this month, Gulfstream Aerospace’s flagship G650 fleet is nearing the 150 aircraft milestone. Some 145 of the ultra-long-range business jets—105 G650s and 40 G650ERs—are currently flying, according to the Savannah, Ga.-based aircraft manufacturer. To date, the G650 fleet has logged more than 78,000 hours...
Abu Dhabi-headquartered Falcon Aviation Services (FAS) is re-evaluating its planned completion/MRO centre at Dubai South (formerly Dubai World Central) with a decision on its final make-up and format likely in the early part of next year, according to the company's Chief Operating Officer “The re-evaluation comes to ensure we have a facility which meets the best, current business...
S7 Airlines, a member of the oneworld® global aviation alliance®, announces launching a new flexible fare system. Now a passenger has an opportunity to choose, what he/she will need in his/her trip, and pay only for those services, which he/she is going to use. The new fare system includes four fare groups – Economy Basic, Economy Flex, Business Basic and Business Flex. Diffe...
Aeroflot was named the winner of Brand Awards in the nomination The Best Company for Business Travelers at the gala event in Moscow hosted by Fashion Events agency. Aeroflot is the winner of this award not for the first time. The carrier is a premium airline with a modern aircraft fleet which is among the youngest in the world. More th...
The arbitration court of Amur region has satisfied the claim of the state enterprise “Airport Blagoveshchensk” to the airline “Transaero” and ordered the carrier to pay the debt of 7.9 million rubles, reported Tuesday on the official website of the court. The court fully satisfied the claim of the airport of Blagoveshchensk to Transaero “The court ruled with &ld...
Hong Kong tycoon Li Ka-Shing's Cheung Kong Infrastructure Holdings (CKI) is among the companies that have placed indicative offers for London City Airport, which has been put up for sale by U.S. owner Global Infrastructure Partners, sources familiar with the matter said. The remaining bidders include Italian infrastructure group Atlantia and three consortia, one of which is led by Macquarie...
Overcast conditions have greeted the arrival of Philippines Airlines’s inaugural flight to Cairns. Flight PR218 from Manila, operated by Airbus A320 RP-C8613, landed a little after 0700 local time on Thursday. The aircraft was on the ground in Cairns for about two hours before heading across the Tasman to Auckland, which is Philippine Airlines’ first destination in New Zeala...
Southeast Asia's aviation sector sought to recover from a new blow to its reputation Wednesday after the U.S. regulator downgraded its safety rating on Thailand's air-travel industry and AirAsia Bhd. faced questions about its practices a day after Indonesian investigators released findings on a crash last year that killed 162 people. The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration cut Thailand...
The last month was brutal for iconic British suppliers Meggitt and Rolls-Royce. Both issued profit warnings, and their stock prices promptly declined 20%. And both blamed weak aftermarket demand as a key cause of disappointing earnings. They are not alone, as other OEMs also are experiencing flat aftermarket demand. According to Canaccord Genuity, air transport maintenance, repair and overhaul...
After weeks of speculation on the state of the airline, Skywise Airline has been suspended from operating at any Airports Company South Africa (ACSA) airports The budget airline was previously temporarily grounded over a payment dispute with ACSA and the Air Traffic and Navigation Systems. The December suspension however relates to unpaid airport charges. "Airports Company South...
A Zhejiang Loong Air (GJ) cargo flight heading toward Kunming Wednesday morning made an emergency landing at Hangzhou Xiaoshan International airport (HGH) after the aircraft suffered a tyre-burst while taking off, according to a source familiar with the matter. The Boeing 733 aircraft, Registration B-2954, performing cargo flight CDC8712 from Hangzhou to Kunming with three people on board,...
Australian authorities said Thursday that new analysis confirms they've likely been searching in the right place for a missing Malaysian airliner. Searchers have been combing a 120,000-square-kilometer (46,000-square-mile) part of the Indian Ocean since last year but have yet to turn up any trace of Flight 370. A wing flap was found in July washed up on remote Reunion Island. The new ana...
United yesterday announced the airline will equip its customer service representatives in the company's U.S.-based hubs with Apple's iPhone 6 Plus, enabling agents to meet customers' needs more quickly while having access to additional operational information at their fingertips. United will begin distributing the devices to its more than 6,000 hub-based customer service repres...
South Africa's Police Service will start an investigation into the country's state-owned airline, which is facing mounting financial losses while remaining reliant on government support. "We have an investigation that we will be conducting and the SAA board has been informed," Hangwani Mulaudzi, a spokesman for the Directorate for Priority Crime Investigations, known as the Ha...
A Vueling Airlines Airbus A320-200, registration EC-MBY performing flight VY-6515 from Turin (Italy) to Barcelona, SP (Spain), was accelerating for takeoff from runway 36 when the right hand engine (CFM56) ingested a bird prompting the crew to reject takeoff. The aircraft slowed safely and returned to the apron. A replacement Airbus A320-200 registration EC-JSY was dispatched to Turin, per...
Civil aviation encourages connection and contact by bringing people closer together. It represents a growing need and one that must go hand in hand with sustainable development. Dassault Aviation is one of the pioneers of “green” aviation and devotes a large share of its R&D budgets to it: for the same mission, our Falcon business jets burn 30 to 40% less kerosene than our competit...
