Category: World

Ryanair Announces $300m Investment With 3 New Aircraft At Manchester

Reading Time: < 1 minute Ryanair, Europe’s favourite airline, announced an additional investment of $300 million at Manchester airport with an extra three based aircraft for its peak summer 2018 schedule (June-September) as it added 10 new summer routes to Agadir, Almeria, Barcelona Reus, Belfast, Cagliari, Palermo, Ponta Delgada, Porto, Rhodes, & Venice Treviso and more flights on existing routes. […]

A350-1000 Begins Demonstration Tour in The Middle East & Asia-Pacific

Reading Time: < 1 minute The A350-1000, the newest member of Airbus’ leading widebody family, has embarked on a three-week demonstration tour to the Middle East and Asia-Pacific region. The demonstration tour follows the completion of a successful flight test campaign, which lasted less than one year and culminated in joint EASA and FAA type certifications, demonstrating the aircraft’s excellent […]

United Airlines to Add 40 CRJ-200s in 2018

Reading Time: < 1 minute United Airlines will add a further forty CRJ-200 operated under a Capacity Purchase Agreement (CPA) by Air Wisconsin in 2018 to boost the United Express feeder service, the carrier announced in the annual investor update on January 23, 2018. The increase is within the scope of a CPA the airlines signed last year, which covers […]

Emirates to Restore a Number of U.S. Flights as Demand Returns

Reading Time: < 1 minute Having seen a tail-off in demand for flights to the U.S after the introduction of certain policies by President Donald Trump’s administration, the Dubai flag-carrying airline Emirates is looking to restore a number of flights to certain U.S. cities that had previously been canceled. Daily flights to five cities were reduced to five a week, […]

African Open Skies to Become Effective Jan. 28

Reading Time: 2 minutes The long-awaited opening of the intra-African air transport market is slated to become a reality on Jan. 28, when the African Union (AU) signs off the final rule-making after a renewed push for liberalization. The single African air transport market (SAATM) was meant to happen nearly two decades ago, following the adoption of the 1999 […]

Lufthansa Group Airlines is Standardizing Its A320 Fleet

Reading Time: < 1 minute The Lufthansa Group is driving forward the standardization of its Airbus A320 fleet: Austrian Airlines, Brussels Airlines, Eurowings, Lufthansa and SWISS are developing a standard specification for the Airbus A320 fleet. At the same time, the airline brands will be preserved by a different brand look. The standardization process applies to aircraft that will be […]

Captain Incapacitated During the Norwegian Boeing 787 Flight

Reading Time: < 1 minute A Norwegian Long Haul Boeing 787-800, registration LN-LNE performing flight DY-7042 (Dep Jan 23rd) from Fort Lauderdale, FL (USA) to Copenhagen (Denmark) with 266 people on board, was enroute over the Atlantic Ocean about 3 hours before reaching the Irish west coast, when the first officer declared PAN reporting a crew member had become incapacitated. […]

ATR Hopes to Continue Iranian Business

Reading Time: 2 minutes Regional turboprop manufacturer ATR is hopeful that worsening relations between the US administration and Iran will not hinder its business relationship with Tehran. ATR delivered eight aircraft to Iran Air in 2017 and plans to deliver a further 12 by the end of this year, as part of Iran’s effort to replace its antiquated civil […]

Qatar Airways to Receive First Airbus A350-1000 in February

Reading Time: < 1 minute Qatar Airways will transfer its first Airbus A350-1000 in February after a delay of several weeks. The delay was caused by the “complex seat configuration,” Qatar CEO Akbar Al Baker said. The Doha-based airline is installing a new business-class seat, Qsuite onto its A350-1000s. The airline was scheduled to take delivery of the first A350-1000 […]

Lufthansa Technik AG Expanded Cooperation with EVA Air

Reading Time: < 1 minute Lufthansa Technik AG has concluded an exclusive contract with its long-standing customer EVA Air to supply components for the Taiwan-based airline’s new Boeing 777F fleet. The integrated supply of components for the freighter aircraft within the scope of Total Component Support (TCS®) includes the repair, overhaul and supply of line replaceable units. The availability of […]