Reading Time: 2 minutes Air France Industries KLM Engineering & Maintenance, Aviation Technical Services and First Aviation Services are named the 2016 winners of the “MRO of the Year” Awards presented today by Penton’s Aviation Week Network, the largest multimedia information and services provider to the global aviation, aerospace and defense industries. “Infusing technology, providing greater efficiencies and saving […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute The latest regional study and statistics from the Airports Council International, ACI, said that Middle East air freight traffic had a 7.4% rise in January, outpacing the 3.3% growth for the Asia-Pacific region. The council’s Asia-Pacific division said that the pushing force leading to China’s New year may positively impact the region’s betterment in air […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Air France is continuing to upgrade its long-haul cabins and will start to equip its Airbus A330 with its new travel cabins as from the end of 2017. These cabins have been developed in partnership with Zodiac Aerospace and currently equip 31 Boeing 777 in the Air France fleet. They are highly acclaimed by Air France […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute Air France Management and the unions today had a meeting about the resumption of Air France flights to Tehran as from 17 April, operated 3 times weekly. The different parties have approved the resumption of this service, operated by Air France since 1946 and suspended since 2008. In Iran, the law stipulates that all women […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute DC Aviation Al-Futtaim (DCAF) has received CAR145 approval from UAE General Civil Aviation Authority for providing maintenance services for the Bombardier Global Express and Challenger 604/605 type aircraft. Commenting on the news, DC Aviation Al-Futtaim director of maintenance Michael Lindgren said: “This is a major milestone for DCAF as it means we are now in […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute Boeing and Ryanair marked a milestone today with the delivery of the airline’s 400th Next-Generation 737-800. The Irish low-cost carrier operates the largest fleet of Next-Generation 737-800s in the world. “The Boeing 737-800 aircraft, with its industry leading technical reliability and seating capacity, has been the foundation upon which our successful and safe growth has been […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute A rare power outage plunged a major section of the Philippine capital’s main airport into darkness overnight, forcing flight cancellations that stranded thousands on Sunday (Apr 3). As many as 78 flights by the country’s largest carrier Cebu Pacific were cancelled, affecting nearly 14,000 passengers, the company said in a statement. Flag carrier Philippine Airlines […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Alaska Air has agreed to buy Virgin America for USD$2.6 billion in cash to its boost its operation on the US West Coast and compete more effectively with larger airlines. At USD$57 a share, the deal represents a premium of about 86 percent from Virgin America’s stock price before reports in March that the company […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute Lufthansa will restart some flights to Brussels airport this week, after the airport’s partial reopening on Sunday following the suicide bomb attack that badly damaged its departure hall and killed 16 people last month Lufthansa said two flights each from Frankfurt and Munich would operate today, increasing to four departures from each of its hubs […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes A company called Boom Technology Inc. has unveiled plans for a supersonic airplane of the same name, which is being developed as a replacement for Concorde. Boom airplanes are predicted to fly 2.6 times faster than any other aircraft (and faster than Concorde Mach 2.0), and hit speeds of Mach 2.2 or 1,451 miles per […]