Reading Time: 2 minutes The US has tentatively granted low cost carrier (LCC) Norwegian UK a foreign air permit, saying it sees no persuasive basis to deny the application. The tentative go-ahead from the US Department of Transportation (DOT) comes more than 18 months after Norwegian filed its application in December 2015. The application was met with considerable opposition […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute Saudi Arabia’s newest carrier is getting ready to fly by the fourth quarter of this year. In conversations with Aviation Business, sources close to the matter have said the airline, called Flyadeal, will likely begin operating by October. Flyadeal will operate under the Saudi Airline umbrella and will operate on both domestic and international routes. […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute A Ryanair plane landed so violently that a passenger “feared the landing gear would snap”. The bumpy landing was filmed by a passenger travelling from Fuerteventure in Spain on Friday and shows the nail-biting moment the plane hits the tarmac with a thud. The passenger filmed the plane coming in to land at Leeds Bradford […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute In the world of aviation hardly a week passes without an aircraft being damaged, and, as strange as it may sound, in many cases the fault of such problems lie in birds.

Reading Time: < 1 minute A 57-year old woman from New Zealand was killed on Maho Beach late Wednesday afternoon (July 12), after being blown off her feet by a jet blast from an aircraft taking off. The beach is world famous to aviation enthusiasts and plane spotters, because of its extremely close proximity to St Maarten Princess Juliana Airport […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute “Аэрофлот” объявил об отмене 14 рейсов, назначенных на четверг, 13 июля, и переносе еще нескольких вылетов на пятницу из-за непогоды. Отменены как международные рейсы – в Париж, Берлин, Прагу, Варшаву, Таллин, так и внутрироссийские – в Краснодар, Ростов, Самару, Тюмень, Набережные Челны, Нижний Новгород, Архангельск, Воронеж, Минеральные Воды. Кроме того, вылеты в Минск, Франкфурт, Мюнхен, […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute SriLankan Airlines  has incurred penalties of USD700,000 for the late return of an A320-200 to sub-lessor IndiGo Airlines. According to company sources who spoke to the News 1st online news portal, 4R-ABK (msn 2584) was due to have been returned to the Indian LCC on May 8 but has been retained for unspecified maintenance reasons. […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute The UAE will stop importing drones that fail to the match the new specifications for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), a senior Emirates Authority for Standardisation and Metrology (ESMA) official has said. In May, ESMA approved the new regulatory standards that included a surveillance system for detecting unmanned aerial vehicles. “Our new standards will come into […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute Delta TechOps, the maintenance division of Delta Air Lines, has signed a new 12-year agreement worth $750 million to service CF6-80A and CF6-80C2 engines operated by the airline subsidiaries of Air Transport Services Group (ATSG). The GE Aviation-manufactured turbofan engine, among the most mature in operation today, is used to power ATSG’s fleet of Boeing […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute With a record 6.76 million passengers for the month of June (up 2.3% against June 2016), passenger numbers for a 12-month period broke the 77 million mark for the first time in Heathrow Airport’s history. June 30 also proved to be a record day for the airport with 259,917 passengers flying through. In a press […]