Reading Time: < 1 minute An Joon Airbus A340-300 on behalf of Air France, performing flight from Paris Charles de Gaulle (France) to Mumbai (India) with 237 people on board, reported lot of smoke in the cabin. Aircraft was enroute at FL350 about 40nm eastnortheast of Kuwait City (Kuwait) when the crew donned their oxygen masks and declared emergency reporting they […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute Air Lease Corporation (ALC) has taken delivery of its first US-produced A321. The aircraft, delivered from the Airbus U.S. Manufacturing Facility in Mobile, Alabama, will be leased to Denver-based Frontier Airlines and features Xavier the Mountain Goat on its vertical tail and Sharklets. The aircraft is also the first U.S.-made A321ceo to enter Frontier’s fleet. […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute Latvian airline airBaltic on December 1, 2018 in Riga welcomed the last Airbus A220-300 jet for the year. Currently airBaltic has a total of 14 Airbus A220-300 aircraft on its fleet. Thus far, airBaltic has carried over 1 850 000 passengers on the Airbus A220-300 aircraft with every third airBaltic passenger flying on the aircraft. […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute The future for Iceland’s low-cost carrier WOW Air looks bleak with Icelandair Group scrapping plans to buy out the struggling airline. Icelandair confirmed that conditions for the share purchase were “unlikely” to be filled by the company’s shareholder meeting November 30, 2018. WOW Air first took to the air in 2012 as a no-frills budget […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute China Eastern Airlines has taken delivery of its first A350-900 in Toulouse, becoming the latest operator of this efficient twin-engine widebody aircraft. China Eastern is the largest Airbus operator in Asia and second largest in the world. The airline will initially operate the new aircraft on its domestic routes, followed by flights to international destinations. […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute Wizz Air, the fastest growing airline in Europe and the leading low-cost carrier in Central and Eastern Europe, celebrated the opening of its new, 3,800-square metre state-of-the-art Training Centre in Budapest, Hungary. Wizz Air’s brand new Training Centre is one of Europe’s most advanced aviation training centres equipped with two Airbus A320 CAE 7000XR Series […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute Turboprop manufacturer ATR celebrates its 1,500th aircraft delivery with the entire ATR employee community. The ATR 72-600 was delivered to Japan Air Commuter at the end of October. This represents the latest in a year of milestones for the market-leading regional aircraft manufacturer, after the delivery of the 1,000th ATR 72 in July and the […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute A THY Turkish Airlines Boeing 737-8 MAX, performing flight from Istanbul (Turkey) to Accra (Ghana), experienced bird strike. Aircraft was in the initial climb out of Istanbul Ataturk’s runway 05 when the aircraft received a bird strike prompting the crew to stop the climb at 9000 feet. Crew decided to return to Istanbul for a […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute German-based leisure airline Sundair has purchased four CFM56-5B engines to power two new Airbus A320ceo aircraft in order valued at $45 million U.S. list price. Sundair began commercial operations in 2017 and currently operates a total of four A320ceo aircraft, including the two recently introduced CFM56-5B-powered aircraft. The company plans to expand its operations throughout […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute Moroccan national flag-carrier, Royal Air Maroc, is adding an additional ATR 72-600 to its fleet. This will bring its total ATR 72-600 fleet to six aircraft. The aircraft will be delivered before the end of the year and will be configured in the same dual-class configuration as the airline’s current ATR fleet. According to ATR’s […]