Reading Time: < 1 minute Как сообщает профсоюз авиакомпании «Air Berlin», банкротство немецкого перевозчика, до недавнего момента занимавшего вторую строку рейтинга крупнейших операторов Германии, приведёт к увольнению полутора тысяч человек. С другой стороны, банкротство немецкого авиаперевозчика было весь ожидаемым, однако, специалисты не исключают того, что оставшуюся часть персонала могут трудоустроить в другие компании, что избавит от серьёзных проблем. На сегодняшний […]

Reading Time: 3 minutes The International Air Transport Association (IATA) announced industry performance statistics for 2016 showing that system-wide, airlines carried 3.8 billion passengers on scheduled services last year, an increase of 7% over 2015, representing an additional 242 million air trips. This information is included in the 2017 edition of the IATA World Air Transport Statistics (WATS), the […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute Lufthansa will hire 1,000 flight attendants for its Munich hub as its launches Airbus A380 operations from the Bavarian capital in spring 2018. “From March 25, our A380s will take off for Hong Kong, Los Angeles and Beijing,” Lufthansa Munich hub CEO Wilken Bormann said. Lufthansa will transfer five of 14 509-seat Airbus A380s from […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute The US ban on electronic devices in aircraft cabins earlier this year was “hugely disruptive”, Emirates’ president Tim Clark has said. The US laptop ban on flights between the US and Middle East caused a 15-18 percent drop in load earlier this year, Clark revealed. He added that the airline “could have lost up to […]

Reading Time: 2 minutes Thai airlines can now add flights to the growing China, South Korea and Japan markets after the U.N. International Civil Aviation Organization removed a red flag against Thailand over safety concerns, officials said on Monday. Thailand was downgraded in June 2015 after its regulator missed a deadline to resolve significant safety concerns, meaning that airlines […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute As Airbus prepares for the first flight of the A330-900, production of the second member of the A330neo Family, the A330-800, is well underway with the first parts advancing at Airbus sites throughout Europe. These parts include the new increased-span wing now being equipped in Bremen (Germany) and its new composite Sharklets from KAL-ASD, the […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute The Boeing Company announced today deliveries across its commercial and defense operations for the third quarter of 2017. Major program deliveries during the third quarter and year-to-date, including deliveries under operating lease (which are identified by parentheses), were as follows:

Reading Time: < 1 minute Pentagon announced that Northrop Grumman has won a $130 million contract to provide Japan with three Global Hawk drones. Northrop Grumman has received a contract valued at more than $130 million to provide Japan with three Global Hawk drones, the US Defense Department said in a press release. “Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems, San Diego, California, […]

Reading Time: 3 minutes Aircraft scheduled to arrive and leave its fleet over the winter months. UK LCC easyJet is bracing for a busy winter, transitioning aircraft to its Austrian air operator’s certificate (AOC), growing its A320neo fleet and phasing out 30 of its Airbus A319s. EasyJet operates a fleet of 280 aircraft, made up of Airbus A319s, A320s […]

Reading Time: 2 minutes Emirates airline needs “even more” Airbus A380 aircraft in the future, according to Emirates president Sir Tim Clark. In an interview with the Netherland’s Het Financieele Dagblad newspaper, Clark said the “the potential market remains huge” for the superjumbo aircraft, despite the emergence of smaller, more energy-efficient aircraft capable of flying to medium-sized cities. “The […]