Reading Time: 2 minutes Preliminary construction is underway on a new, $350 million Lockheed Martin facility that will produce next-generation satellites. The new facility, located on the company’s Waterton Canyon campus near Denver, is the latest step in an ongoing transformation, infused with innovation to provide future missions at reduced cost and cycle time. The new Gateway Center, slated […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute BOC Aviation Limited (“BOC Aviation”) is pleased to announce that it has placed an order for 10 new Boeing 737 MAX 10 aircraft, following the announcement on 19 June 2017 by Boeing of a memorandum of understanding signed at the Paris Air Show. “We are pleased to be adding the Boeing 737 MAX 10 aircraft […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute Between January and June this year, passenger traffic through Russian airports grew 19% to 82.008 million, the Federal Air Transport Agency (FATA) reports. The results are a striking contrast to the same period last year, when the number of passengers that passed through Russian airports decreased 2.2%. Of the country’s top-20 airports, the highest passenger […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute Минтранс и Росавиация занялись вопросом срыва чартерных рейсов. По данным портала Avia.pro, Министерство транспорта Российской Федерации и Федеральное агентство воздушного транспорта обсуждают усиление ответственности авиаперевозчиков за сорванные рейсы, в частности, по некоторым сведениям, к перевозчикам могут начать применяться серьёзные санкции, позволяющие, в том числе, лишать их лицензии. В текущем году, по вине ряда отечественных авиаперевозчиков, […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Многодетной семье пресс-секретаря патриарха Кирилла священника Александра Волкова не хватило мест на рейсе авиакомпании “Победа” из Москвы, несмотря на то, что у них были все билеты и посадочные талоны, сообщает РИА Новости со ссылкой на страницу в социальной сети Facebook самого священника и его супруги Варвары Волковой. “Пришли на регистрацию, а для меня места не […]
Reading Time: 4 minutes The International Air Transport Association (IATA) released data for global air freight markets showing that demand, measured in freight tonne kilometers (FTKs), grew by 10.4% in the first-half of 2017 compared to the first-half of 2016. This was the strongest first half-year performance since air cargo’s rebound from the Global Financial Crisis in 2010 and […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute WestJet announced its second quarter results for 2017, with net earnings of $48.4 million, or $0.41 per fully diluted share, as compared with the net earnings of $36.7 million, or $0.30 per fully diluted share reported in the second quarter of 2016, up 32.0 per cent and 36.7 per cent, respectively. WestJet achieved its 49th […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes In June 2017, the total number of international travellers through Moscow’s three main airports exceeded domestic traffic for the first time since July 2015. According to Russia’s Federal Air Transport Agency (FATA), Moscow’s Sheremetyevo, Domodedovo, and Vnukovo airports handled a total of 4.233 million passengers traveling internationally in June, up 32.5% year-on-year. Their combined domestic […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes EDM, a leading global provider of training simulators to the civil aviation and defence sectors, announced today that it has launched its new Virtual Slide Trainer. The Virtual Slide Trainer provides airline cabin crew with convenient, virtual slide deployment training for safety and emergency procedures (SEPs). Dramatically reducing the significant cost and time associated with […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes Austrian Airlines generated considerably higher earnings than expected in the first half of 2017. Earnings before interest and taxes (EBIT) totaled EUR 8 million, comprising a year-on-year rise of EUR 6 million. Adjusted EBIT, the relevant indicator for the 2017 forecast which deducts valuation gains from aircraft sales, climbed to EUR 3 million in the […]