Reading Time: < 1 minute On 2 June Airbus marked a special milestone. The first Airbus A220-300 built at final assembly line (FAL) in Mobile, Alabama, took off for the maiden flight. According to Airbus, aircraft manufactured for Delta performed ” test sequences” and successfully landed. The 1st Airbus #A220 aircraft produced at the U.S. Manufacturing Facility has flown for […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute KLM Royal Dutch Airlines is one of the most active airlines in the world in terms of sustainability. Apart from numerous initiatives to make aviation greener, the airline has recently joined testing of sustainable ways to taxi aircraft at Schiphol. The object of innovative tests is a Taxibot – “a hybrid towing vehicle which, unlike […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Today, 2 June, 2020, is the day when Delta bids final goodbye to its MD-88 and MD-90 aircraft. Last scheduled revenue flights will land in Atlanta. At the moment of writing, the flight DL88 performed by a 28-year-old MD-88 was heading from Washington-Dulles International Airport to Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport. Meanwhile, DL90 flight had already […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute The rumours appeared to be true. Affected by the coronavirus crisis, Emirates, the operator of exclusively widebody fleet, confirmed it plans lay-offs. The scale of job cuts has not been revealed, though. The airline’s spokesperson confirmed that Emirates has “come to the conclusion that it unfortunately has to say goodbye to a few of the […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) has closed the purchase of the CRJ Series aircraft program from Bombardier. Under the deal, MHI acquired the maintenance, support, refurbishment, marketing, and sales activities for the CRJ Series aircraft as well as the type certificates. Also, Bombardier passed to MHI the related services and support network located in Montréal, Québec, […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute The most common stereotype in aviation: pilot’s profession is only for men, whereas flight attendant’s job – only for women. Nevertheless, these are only popular stereotypes. Did you know that world’s first flight attendant was a man – Heinrich Kubis from Germany (according to Guinness World Records). Kubis started attending to passengers in March 1912. It […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute Electric aviation celebrates another milestone – maiden flight of all-electric Cessna 208B Grand Caravan. As for now it is the largest all-electric passenger aircraft which has ever taken off. The completion of a successful initial flight was announced by magniX, the company powering the eCaravan, and AeroTEC, an aerospace testing, engineering and certification company. eCaravan […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute It has finally happened. After nearly four-month pause, Boeing has resumed production of 737 MAX aircraft. Although at low rates, but new planes will born again. By saying that production rates will be low, Boeing did not specify how many planes will be produced per month exactly. Nevertheless, now while building a new plane Boeing […]
Reading Time: 7 minutes Aviation is going through another ‘first’ as it is in its worst crisis ever. The recent turbulence caused by the coronavirus pandemic is still impossible to measure; its medium- and long-term impacts either. There is neither a well-trodden recovery path to follow, nor a similar global situation to refer to. Nevertheless, the situation is not […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute Financial aid and support to airlines is currently vitally important for the airlines, and the industry, to begin recovering after the pandemic. Airlines have received over $120 billion in financial assistance from governments. Nevertheless, there are two sides of the same coin. With a financial help also grows the airline industry’s global debt. According to […]