Reading Time: < 1 minute A jetBlue Airbus A320-200, performing a flight from Boston to Minneapolis (USA) with 61 people on board, engine shut down in flight. Aircraft was enroute at FL340 about 160nm east of Buffalo (USA) when the crew descended the aircraft to FL240 after shutting an engine (V2527) down. The aircraft diverted to Buffalo, advised tower they were […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute Middle East airline Gulf Air and CFM International signed a long-term agreement for the maintenance of the airline’s LEAP-1A engines. The agreement is valued at just over US $ 1 billion at list price. Under the terms of this 10-year Rate per Flight Hour agreement, which covers a total of 65 LEAP-1A engines that the […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute A PAL Airlines de Havilland Dash 8-300, performing flight from Churchill Falls to Deer Lake (Canada) with 47 passengers and 4 crew, performed a nose gear up landing. Aircraft was on approach to Deer Lake when the crew received an unsafe nose gear indication and went around. The crew performed a low approach to Deer […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute WestJet has been recognized as the Best Low-Cost Airline – The Americas for 2018 for the second year in a row by www.airlineratings.com. The website attracts more than 25 million visitors who rate more than 425 airlines around the globe on an annual basis. According to Ed Sims, WestJet President and CEO, WestJet delivers exceptional and […]

Reading Time: 2 minutes The International Air Transport Association (IATA) called for a spirit of change from governments to capture the social and economic benefits of air connectivity, by enabling a more competitive air transport sector. Today 8.5 million flights touch Europe each year. That activity supports 12.2 million jobs and $823 billion of European GDP. Those benefits have […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute An Envoy Embraer ERJ-135, registration N836AE performing flight from Dallas Ft. Worth,TX to Lake Charles,LA (USA), was accelerating for take-off when the crew rejected take-off. The crew advised no assistance was needed, vacated the runway and told tower they had hit something on the runway. The aircraft departed about 90 minutes later and landed in […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute Bombardier has announced it plans to sell its Q400 turboprop passenger line to a subsidiary of Longview Aviation Capital Corporation and to cut 5,000 jobs as part of an effort to streamline operations and reduce costs. According to Bombardier, the sale includes not only the Q400 program but also all assets and intellectual property for other Dash […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute Bombardier has announced that its flagship business jet, the Global 7500 aircraft, has received Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) certification, achieving another important milestone as it approaches entry-into-service later this year. Earlier this year, the Global 7500 aircraft demonstrated its ability to fly further than any other business jet by expanding its advertised range to 7,700 […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute A Skylease Cargo Boeing 747-400, registration N908AR performing flight GG-4854 from Chicago O’Hare,IL (USA) to Halifax, NS (Canada) with 4 crew, went off the runway at the Halifax airport in eastern Canada. The aircraft was unable to stop before the end of the runway, overran the end of the runway, went down a slope and through […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute An Air Cargo Carrier Shorts SD-360, performing freight flight from Danville to Louisville (USA), nose gear collapsed on landing. Aircraft landed on Louisville’s runway but suffered the collapse of the nose gear and was unable to vacate the runway. Tower instructed the next approach to go around, then asked whether they were able to vacate the […]