Reading Time: < 1 minute The Indian air force Friday lost contact with a transport plane carrying 29 people to islands in the Bay of Bengal, the defense ministry said. The AN-32 aircraft took off from the southern city of Chennai at 8.30 a.m. and was flying over the bay to the city of Port Blair in the Andaman and […]

Reading Time: 2 minutes The first Pilatus PC-21 advanced trainer for the Royal Australian Air Force has completed its first flight. Bearing both Swiss civil registration HB-HWA and its ADF military serial A54-001, the aircraft completed its first flight from Pilatus’s Stans, Switzerland facility on July 21. “This initial flight of the first Australian PC-21, only seven months after […]

Reading Time: 2 minutes Pegasus Airlines, Turkey’s leading low-cost airline, its first Airbus A320neo powered by CFM International’s LEAP-1A engines, becoming the first airline to do so for the type. Pegasus placed the largest single order by a Turkish carrier for up to 100 A320neo Family aircraft in 2012, making it a new Airbus customer. Pegasus Airlines along with […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute Powered by a gasoline-electric propulsion system, the new prototype is a precursor to a production version now in development in France. The Airbus E-Fan 1.2, a new version of the aerospace giant’s vision for the future of general aviation flight, will make its U.S. debut next week at EAA AirVenture, highlighting a brand-new hybrid-electric propulsion […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute Shares of Boeing Co fell more than 1% in late trading Thursday after the aircraft maker warned second-quarter charges will reach $2.05 billion, stemming from setbacks and difficulties in three separate programs and including problems related to weaker air-cargo market trends. In its 787 program, Boeing decided not to invest funds for the refurbishment and sale […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute Southwest Airlines passengers scrambled to reschedule flights after hundreds were canceled because of technical glitches. The airline announced that more than 450 flights have been canceled in attempt to get planes back in line. The cancelations were primarily a result of displaced crews and aircraft. “Simply put, if the Crews aren’t in place, the planes […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute Boeing marked an event to celebrate its 100th anniversary by laying out new grand ambitions for the future of the company, which could see the return of supersonic air travel as well as passenger trips into space. According to company chief executive Dennis Muilenburg, although such space trips could still be decades away they are […]

Reading Time: 2 minutes The U.S. Department of Transportation recommended giving Delta Air Lines a route between Minneapolis-St.Paul International Airport and Tokyo’s close-in Haneda Airport just months after Minnesota politicians and business leaders created a dust-up over the issue. Delta will have the option of adding service between MSP and Haneda, if the recommendation is adopted, which is expected […]

Reading Time: 2 minutes Halifax Regional Fire and Emergency (HRFE) is looking to add drones to its stock of emergency gear to allow for quicker and more effective responses, and decrease the safety risks to first responders. HRFE’s plan to dip into existing fire department reserves to buy two unmanned aerial vehicles at a cost of $60,000 was approved […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute Emirates is to increase capacity on the Dubai-Milan route with the deployment of a second daily A380 on October 1. The migration from a Boeing 777-300ER to the iconic double decker represents a capacity increase of 1,834 seats per week between the two cities; enabling more A380 to A380 connections to and from key destinations […]