Reading Time: < 1 minute Bahrain’s national carrier has signed a $1.9 billion agreement with engine-maker CFM International for 58 LEAP-1A engines. The engines will power 17 Airbus A321neo and 12 A320neo aircraft while 7 additional will serve as spares to support Gulf Air’s operations. The firm engine order comes after the Manama-based airline placed an order for Airbus’ A320 […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute По предварительной информации 10.11.2017 в 9 часов 23 минуты местного времени в аэропорту г.Томска при выполнении воздушным судном Ан-24, эксплуатируемым ООО «Авиакомпания «Турухан», рейса по маршруту «Томск-Стрежевой» в ходе руления по перрону произошел сход правой стойки шасси на грунт с дальнейшим разворачиванием судна на 160-180 градусов. Об этом сообщили в пресс-службе Западно-Сибирской транспортной прокуратуры. “На […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute SA Airlink Avro RJ-85, performing flight from Harare to Johannesburg with 34 passengers and 4 crew, was enroute nearing the top of descent towards Johannesburg when the #2 engine suffered an uncontained failure ejecting parts of the hot section and turbine towards the #1 engine causing the engine to fail, too. The aircraft continued to […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute Emirates has posted half year results which show a return to profit growth after a challenging year in 2016-17 that prompted widespread changes in the way the airline organizes itself. In 2016-17 Group profits fell by 64 percent and airline profits by 75 percent. Half year results announced by the airline for 2017-18 show Group […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute Boeing and CDB Aviation finalized an order for 42 737 MAX 8s, 10 737 MAX 10s and eight 787-9 Dreamliners. The order puts the 737 MAX program over 4,000 orders total.  The order, valued at $7.4 billion at current list prices, was announced as a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) at the 2017 Paris Air Show. The […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute Having ceased trading last month, Monarch Airlines (MAL) is in the process of ‘losing’ its most valuable asset, runway slots, which its administrators had hoped to exchange with other carriers in a bid to raise cash for its creditors. The problem lies in the fact that Monarch does not own the take-off and landing slots, […]

Reading Time: 2 minutes Expensive maintenance efforts to improve the reliability of Bombardier Q400 turboprops have hit the meager profits at British regional carrier Flybe. Adjusted profit fell by almost half for the first six months of the year, to £8.4 million ($11 million), as the carrier spent 36% more on maintenance than in the prior-year period. This was […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute Hawaiian Airlines Airbus A330 was performing positioning flight from Everett to Seattle when during roll out streaks of flame became visible from the left hand engine. Tower immediately dispatched emergency services, couple of seconds later the crew called tower, tower instantly reported emergency services are already on their way and advised there was fire visible […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute На пресс-конференции во время выставки World Travel Market в Лондоне генеральный директор авиакомпании British Airways Алекс Круз объявил, что инвестиции авиакомпании в новую программу по совершенствованию качества полетов составят 4,5 миллиарда фунтов. В своей речи Алекс Круз подчеркнул, что в последнее время компания столкнулась с беспрецедентным конкурентным давлением, и выразил свою решимость усилить позиции национального […]

Reading Time: 2 minutes United Airlines has ended its 47-year relationship with the Boeing 747 with a special ‘retro’ flight from San Francisco to Honolulu in acknowledgement of its first-ever commercial flight on July 23, 1970. This last flight follows on from the carrier’s final international 747 flight, from Seoul to San Francisco, on October 29. More than 300 […]