Reading Time: < 1 minute A seaplane crashed into a bridge on the edge of Shanghai, killing at least five people. The plane, owned by charter airline Joy General Aviation, was taking off on a demonstration flight with 10 people on board including the crew, when it hit a motorway bridge in Jinshan district, Shanghai media platform The Paper reported. […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute The Government of India is set to finalise the purchase of 36 Rafale combat aircraft in fly-away condition from France for the Indian Air Force (IAF). The move comes as the IAF is in critical operational necessity for multirole combat aircraft. The Dassault Aviation-built multi-role jet fighter will be supplied as part of an intergovernmental […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute The Polish Ministry of Defense aims to spend at least 83 billion zloty (US $21 billion) on acquisitions of new weapons and military equipment for the country’s armed forces, according to Poland’s Deputy Defense Minister Bartosz Kownacki. “The leadership of the ministry has defined its priorities, and the air-defense program is such a priority,” Kownacki […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Boeing forecasts a demand for 1,850 new airplanes in India, valued at $265 billion, over the next 20 years. The company released its annual Current Market Outlook (CMO) for India during a briefing in Mumbai. “India continues to have a strong commercial aerospace market and the highest domestic traffic growth in the world,” said Dinesh […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute Lufthansa Group, Honeywell Aerospace and Airbus have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to work jointly on the development of a runway safety solution combining Airbus’ Runway Overrun Prevention System (ROPS) and Honeywell’s SmartLanding technologies for Lufthansa Group’s fleet. This cooperation aims to set the highest standard in runway safety by combining the strengths of […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Alerts issued in capital as the authorities warn it could see the most serious flooding since 79 were killed in storms four years ago. Thunderstorms and heavy rain have led to hundreds of flight cancellations and delays at airports in Beijing and neighbouring Tianjin. Some 195 flights scheduled to leave Beijing Capital International Airport had […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute Russia’s Aeroflot flagship carrier suspends selling airline tickets to Istanbul and Antalya due to Russian aviation agency Rosaviatsiya’s ban on flight to Turkey. “Selling tickets will resume after the regulating authority – Rosaviatsiya – lifts the ban,” Aeroflot said on Wednesday. Tickets to flights from Turkey are sold in the regular mode, the company added. […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute Wizz Air has halved its plans for growth in the UK in the second half of the year after the Brexit vote. The low-cost airline operator said it would be redeploying this capacity for growth to non-UK routes. Its share price shot up four per cent on Wednesday morning as it announced the news and […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute Monarch Aircraft Engineering Limited (MAEL), the engineering division of Monarch, a leading UK independent airline group, are pleased to announce that they have signed an agreement with Norwegian to provide line maintenance services to their Boeing 737NG operation at Birmingham and Manchester Airports. The agreement, which will be ongoing, is an extension to the support […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes The Philippines’ airline carrier, Cebu Pacific, has chosen OpenAirlines’ solution to save fuel and reduce its carbon dioxide emission per flight. CEB is OpenAirline’s launch customer in the Asia Pacific region. Under the agreement, OpenAirlines’ software will continuously analyze the flight data of all 57 aircraft on CEB’s fleet (7 Airbus A319, 36 Airbus A320, […]