Reading Time: < 1 minute Canada’s Lynx Air has confirmed it will start operations next year, initially flying three Boeing 737 MAXs from its Calgary base. The carrier was initially known as Enerjet, a charter airline based in Calgary, flying oil sand workers to job sites in Alberta and undertaking contracts for tour and holiday operators. From now on, Lynx […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute Vietnam Airlines launches the first nonstop flights between the United States and Vietnam. Starting from November 28th, Vietnam Airlines will be flying from Ho Chi Minh City to San Francisco twice a week, using its Boeing 787-9. The new flight will operate with the following schedule: VN98 Ho Chi Minh City to San Francisco departing […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute Airbus has received an order for 255 additional A321neo Family aircraft under a joint Indigo Partners agreement: Wizz Air (Hungary), Frontier (United States), Volaris (Mexico) and JetSMART (Chile, Argentina), Indigo Partners portfolio airlines. The firm order was signed at the Dubai Airshow. This order brings the total number of aircraft ordered by the Indigo Partners’ […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute Morocco’s national carrier Royal Air Maroc will start regular direct flights to Israel, taking off a year after it normalized relationships with the Jewish state. The service between Casablanca and Tel Aviv will take off on December 12 and “respond to the needs of the Moroccan community in Israel which has strong links with its […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute Vietnamese budget airline Vietjet said it had signed an agreement with Airbus on Friday involving the timing of deliveries of 119 planes. According to Airbus, the airline has 119 A321neo narrowbody planes on the order that are yet to be delivered. Vietjet will also take on the delivery of up to three leased A330 widebodies […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes Nowadays, technology is becoming an integral and dominant part of our daily lives — from interacting to learning. With new developments in technology and changing learning styles of younger generations, the design and delivery of training for aviation professionals are also reshaping fast. BAA Training is one of the first ATOs that has propelled forward […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute Alaska Airlines expands its codeshare agreement with British Airways, covering 16 additional markets. Alaska said it is “connecting Alaska’s network beyond Seattle [SEA], San Francisco [SFO] and Los Angeles [LAX] to British Airways’ nonstop service from London Heathrow [LHR].” “Alaska has implemented new partnerships with member airlines Qatar Airways and Iberia Airlines and expanded cooperation […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute Highlights: BAA Training has acquired an Airbus A320 CEO/NEO full flight simulator (FFS) from L3Harris. The Airbus A320 CEO/NEO FFS is currently being installed at BAA Training’s facility in Barcelona. BAA Training is adding an additional FFS produced by L3Harris – Airbus A320 CEO/NEO – to the mix of equipment in its training centre BAA […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes BAA Training starts virtual reality-based (VR) pilot training as it seeks to be on the leading edge of pilot education. It signed a contract with the VR technology provider – VRpilot – on 2 November 2021 at the European Airline Training Symposium 2021 in Berlin. VRpilot will supply a brand-new VRflow emergency procedure trainer to […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute Lufthansa Group has revealed that it had returned to profit for the third quarter of 2021, with a profit of €17 million. It reported a €1.3 billion loss for the same quarter last year. The airline has seen a significant increase in new bookings – it is already back at 80 percent of the pre-crisis […]