Reading Time: < 1 minute British Airways is launching the only direct flight between London and Santiago in Chile from January 3, 2017. Santiago will become the airline’s lengthiest long-haul route, taking 14 hours 40 minutes, nearly an hour more than the current longest flight of 13 hours 50 minutes service to Buenos Aires. The four-a-week flight will be served […]

Reading Time: 4 minutes In 2015, the Irish regional airline CityJet has announced the will to buy 15+10 Russian-made Sukhoi Superjet 100 (SSJ100) aircraft for 1 billion USD to update its fleet. Since that day the European aviation community and non-professional aviation lovers are still trying to understand how the Russian twin-engine became the loved one by the CityJet. […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute Ryanair has opened a training center at London Stansted Airport, as it seeks 1,000 more pilots, cabin crew and engineers this year to fuel its expansion. The European training center includes four full-flight simulators, an aircraft interior for cabin crew training and a full-scale engineering training aircraft. “These new facilities will allow Ryanair to recruit […]

Reading Time: 2 minutes Today at the International Training and Education Conference (ITEC), Europe’s largest show for military training and simulation, CAE announced that the Naval Warfare Training System for the Swedish Navy has arrived in Sweden and installation has begun at the Naval Warfare Centre in Karlskrona. CAE has delivered a comprehensive Naval Tactical Mission Trainer (TMT) suite […]

Reading Time: 2 minutes IFS, the global enterprise applications company, announces that Affinity Flying Training Services has chosen IFS Applications™ 9 and IFS Managed Cloud™ as one integrated solution for aircraft maintenance and ERP. The agreement with IFS, including licenses, is valued at approximately £1.2 million for the first six years of the 18-year contract. Affinity Flying Services Limited […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute Lithuanian leisure carrier Small Planet Airlines launched operations under its new German air operator’s certificate (AOC) on May 13. This latest approval means that Small Planet Airlines holds three AOCs, covering Germany, Lithuania and Poland. Small Planet Airlines started flying from Germany last fall and decided to seek a local AOC to support expansion. This […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute A Kalitta Air Boeing 747-400 freighter performing freight flight from Delhi to Leipzig, was on final approach to Leipzig-Schkeuditz International Airport, when the aircraft lost a large part of its undercarriage. The flight was able to continue the approach and made a safe landing. According to avherald.com, Kalitta Air flight was on approach at Leipzig-Schkeuditz […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute This morning yet another Embraer jet in the Austrian Airlines fleet with the registration number OE-LWI took off for its initial flight OS177 from Vienna to Stuttgart. It is the fifth Embraer jet out of a total of 17 aircraft of this type which Austrian Airlines will integrate into its fleet by the end of […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute A Lufthansa Airbus A330-300, registration D-AIKR performing flight LH-764 from Munich, Germany to Mumbai, India with 163 passengers, landed on Mumbai’s runway 27 but burst both left and right main gear tyres (4 tyres in total) and became disabled on the runway about abeam taxiway S7 approximately 1830 meters/6000 feet past the runway threshold. The […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute Global aviation training solutions provider BAA Training announced new capabilities for Boeing 737 NG, Airbus A320 and Dash 8Q400 pilot type rating training. BAA Training has signed an agreement with Quadrant Systems, based in Burgess Hill UK for lease of Boeing 737NG and Airbus A320 simulators and classroom facilities. In addition to that, BAA Training […]