Reading Time: < 1 minute Czech Airlines Technics (CSAT), a daughter company of the Czech Aeroholding Group, entered into an agreement with China Eastern Airlines. CSAT will thus provide line maintenance for aircraft servicing the new Prague – Shanghai route. Since September 2015, CSAT has been providing line maintenance for Hainan Airlines and its plan is to start providing the […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes British Airways has suspended flights to Egypt’s Sharm el-Sheikh resort indefinitely amid terror fears in a blow to the country’s tourism. No flights have operated between the UK and the resort after a terrorist bomb brought down a Russian passenger plane in November killing 224 people. The Government suspended flights to Sharm el- Sheik on […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes The European Commission updated the EU Air Safety List, the list of airlines that do not meet international safety standards, and are therefore subject to an operating ban or operational restrictions within the European Union. The European Commission updated the EU Air Safety List, the list of airlines that do not meet international safety standards, […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes Turkish Airlines has been awarded ‘Airline of The Year’ and Turkish Cargo won ‘Cargo Airline of the Year’ award. Turkish Technic won ‘MRO Company of the Year’ award and Istanbul Ataturk Airport, operated by TAV Airports, won ‘Airport of the Year’ awards in 2016 Air Transport News Awards. “As the Turkish Airlines network grows every […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute Gulfstream Aerospace Corp. today announced it has completed ultimate load testing for the all-new Gulfstream G500. Ultimate load represents 150 percent of limit load and is equivalent to a 1.5 safety factor specified by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA). Limit load is the maximum level that an aircraft […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute A Sukhoi SU-30 MK2 fighter jet of the Vietnamese Air Force has reportedly gone missing during a training flight along South China Sea coast. Carrying two pilots, the Russian-built fighter jet was flying between 30km and 40km off the coast of Nghe An province when it lost contact with air traffic control on Tuesday, Reuters […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute Vistara and AirAsia will soon be able to fly international as the Union Cabinet has cleared the civil aviation policy. “In the aviation policy, we had proposed that the government should charge Rs 8,000 per landing from airlines to fund the regional connectivity plan,” said a senior aviation ministry official, who did not want to […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute Qatar Airways Cargo unveiled plans yesterday to increase its positon in three new markets – the trans-Pacific, Australia and South America – with ambitions of becoming a “strong player” there in the next nine months, according to Qatar’s CEO of cargo, Ulrich Ogiermann. At a press conference held on the opening day of Air Cargo […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes The civil aviation ministry expects the new aviation policy will be taken up today by the Union Cabinet. The Union Cabinet, which is meeting at 10.30am, is likely to take up the much delayed policy, besides a proposal to increase the age of practising doctors to 65 years from the current 60, said a government […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute Asian Aviation Centre of Excellence (AACE), the joint venture between Air Asia and CAE, announced today it has reached another milestone since its inception in 2011 with the inauguration of a new A330 CAE 7000XR Series full-flight simulator (FFS). The new simulator is located at the AACE training centre in Glenmarie, Selangor, Malaysia and brings […]