Reading Time: < 1 minute ATR has received certification from the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) for its new ATR 72-600 Full Flight Simulator (FFS) based at ATR’s Paris Training Center. The brand new FFS was manufactured by TRU Simulation + Training and is conveniently located close to Charles de Gaulle airport, which provides connections to any worldwide destination. With […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute Air Baltic Boeing 737-500, performing flight from Riga to Moscow Sheremetyevo with 52 people on board, landed safely and rolled out without incident. Upon vacating the runway to the right onto taxiway 13, at about midpoint of the runway, the aircraft missed the taxiway entry, stopped with the nose gear on soft ground and was […]

Reading Time: 6 minutes The International Air Transport Association (IATA) forecasts global industry net profit to rise to $38.4 billion in 2018, an improvement from the $34.5 billion expected net profit in 2017 (revised from a $31.4 billion forecast in June). Highlights of expected 2018 performance include: A slight decline in the operating margin to 8.1% (down from 8.3% […]

Reading Time: 3 minutes The International Air Transport Association (IATA) announced global passenger traffic results for October showing that demand (measured in revenue passenger kilometers, or RPKs) rose 7.2% compared to the same month last year. Capacity grew 6.2% and load factor climbed 0.8 percentage points to 80.8%, which was a record for the month. October’s performance was a […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute China Airlines of Taiwan has become the second airline to join a programme to use a blend of traditional and sustainable biofuels to power aircraft for delivery flights from Airbus. The aircraft involved is the tenth A350-900 for China Airlines, which left the manufacturer’s delivery centre in Toulouse for its new home in Taipei with […]

Reading Time: 2 minutes Boeing and LOT Polish Airlines celebrated the delivery of the first 737 MAX for the carrier, ushering the new and improved 737 airplane into the central and east Europe market. The jet is also the first MAX placed by leading airplane lessor Air Lease Corporation. Boeing, LOT Polish Airlines celebrated the delivery of the carrier’s […]

Reading Time: 2 minutes Venezuelan carrier Avior Airlines has been added to the list of airlines that are banned from the European Union (EU) in the latest update of the EU Air Safety List, which is more commonly known as the EU blacklist. Revealing the changes on Nov. 30, the European Commission said Avior Airlines has been blacklisted because […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute With a decrease of 11.9% compared to October 2016, passenger numbers at Berlin Tegel have fallen significantly. Despite slight growth at Schönefeld (+ 3.3%), the total number of passengers at both Berlin airports has fallen by 6.2% compared to the same month of the previous year. As a result, the airberlin crisis has had a […]

Reading Time: 2 minutes Final assembly of the newest member of the A330neo Family, the A330-800, has started and is on track for the first flight planned in mid-2018. The A330-800 complements the A330-900, the largest member of the A330neo Family. With its 242-tonne Maximum Take-Off Weight (MTOW) as base variant, the A330-800 can operate routes of up to […]

Reading Time: 3 minutes Hundreds of flights have been canceled and Bali international airport was shut down due to Volcano eruption in Bali. So far over 400 flights were cancelled stranding 59 000 travelers since the Bali’s Ngurah Rai airport – also known as Denpasar International airport – closure on Monday because of falling volcanic ash. After reviewing the […]