All Air Transport articles – Page 217
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NewsGE Aviation lost 1,900 Leap orders in 12 months
GE Aviation lost orders for about 1,900 Leap-1B turbofans in the last year, a period influenced both by the Boeing 737 Max grounding and the pandemic.
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NewsGE Aviation turns $641m Q1 profit despite revenue hit
GE Aviation remained in the black during the first quarter of 2021, earning a $641 million profit despite significant declines in revenue from engine services.
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NewsFinnair hikes cost-base reduction target for a third time
Finnair is raising a permanent cost-savings target a third time, to €170 million ($205 million), more than double the original figure unveiled last year. The company had stated in May 2020 that it was aiming for €80 million in cost-base reductions from 2022, compared with 2019 levels. Over the next ...
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NewsNASA envisions revived US regional air transportation network
The USA’s many small, underused airports, combined with autonomous and electric-propulsion technologies, could enable a vast new US regional air transportation system.
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NewsSaudia and Gulf Air tighten ties with codeshare
Middle Eastern carriers Saudia and Gulf Air are to enter a co-operation agreement which will include a codeshare between the two airlines. The codeshare will take effect during the summer schedule. Saudia says the tie-up will involve placing its ‘SV’ designator on Gulf Air’s services from Bahrain to Riyadh and ...
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NewsNigeria’s Green Africa brings in ATR 72s for start-up
Nigerian start-up carrier Green Africa Airways has received its first aircraft, an ATR 72-600, at its base in the city of Lagos. Green Africa is taking three ATRs through an agreement with ACIA Aero Leasing, which is part of Mauritius-based ACIA Aero Capital and has leasing offices in several countries ...
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NewsRossiya builds Superjet fleet as Russian domestic market picks up
Aeroflot Group shifted another six Sukhoi Superjet 100s to Rossiya during March, bringing the number transferred to the airline to 14 over the first quarter. Rossiya’s fleet has increased from 67 to 81 aircraft over the three-month period as Aeroflot Group continued implementation of a strategy to use Rossiya as ...
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NewsUniversal Hydrogen lands $20.5m investment, Airbus and JetBlue arms contribute
Investment arms of Airbus and JetBlue Airways are among companies that have invested a combined $20.5 million in Universal Hydrogen, the Paul Eremenko-backed firm developing a hydrogen-fuel distribution and storage system.
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NewsBill to reduce disease transmission on jets targets airworthiness standards
US lawmakers have proposed a union-backed bill that seeks to prevent the spread of disease within the commercial aviation sector, including by changing aircraft certification requirements.
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NewsAlaska stems losses in Q1, buoyed by US government funds
Alaska Air Group lost $131 million in the first quarter of 2021, a significant improvement from the previous quarter thanks largely to pandemic-related US government aid.
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NewsWhy Boeing's test pilot Heather Ross has the job of dreams
Heather Ross has a job that many aviators around the world would dream of. She is a test pilot at Boeing, currently working on the Chicago-based airframer’s newest project, the 777X.
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NewsKyrgyzstan’s Air Manas introduces CIS states’ first A220
Kyrgyzstan’s Air Manas has become the first operator in the CIS to introduce the Airbus A220. The aircraft, an A220-300 variant, has been deployed with the Kyrgyz carrier through a lease agreement with GTLK. Airbus says the airline will bring in a second A220-300 later this year. It states that ...
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NewsC208 suffered excursion after unstable approach and long landing
Investigators have found that a Cessna C208B operating a cargo flight conducted an unstable approach before landing long and hard, and suffering a runway excursion in the British Virgin Islands. The single-engined aircraft, with the US registration N967FE, was operating on behalf of FedEx and arriving from Puerto Rico on ...
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NewsFly high or reduce speed to cut civil helicopter birdstrike: EASA
Civil helicopter operators are being advised to reduce airspeed if they are unable to avoid flying at low altitude, as a defensive measure against the risk of serious birdstrike. Rotorcraft manufacturers should incorporate a dedicated caution in flight manuals warning operators that flight below 2,500ft increases the likelihood and severity ...
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NewsCanada proposes C$2 billion in aerospace aid
Canada’s federal government has proposed providing the aerospace industry with C$2 billion ($1.6 billion) in aid over multiple years to help the sector recover from the pandemic downturn.
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NewsAirbus to turn aerostructures operations into wholly-owned integrated arms
Airbus is to create two integrated aerostructures assembly companies in France and Germany as part of a transformation of its industrial activities. Instead of having the organisations act as suppliers to the airframer they will be wholly-owned by Airbus and become an integrated part of the company’s operations. It will ...
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NewsSIA 777 stopped climb at 500ft after crew's waypoint entry error
Pilots of a Singapore Airlines Boeing 777-300ER inadvertently entered an incorrect waypoint altitude constraint prior to departure, resulting in several alerts from the ground-proximity warning system as the aircraft climbed out of Shanghai Pudong. The take-off runway assigned had been changed from 34L to 35R which meant the aircraft’s standard ...
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NewsUS DOT’s inspector general begins third review of FAA’s Max oversight
The US Department of Transportation’s top inspector has commenced a third investigation into the Federal Aviation Administration’s oversight of the Boeing 737 Max, this time examining the FAA’s grounding and re-certification of the jetliner.
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NewsBoeing shareholders grant board chair Kellner another term
Boeing’s shareholders re-elected ten company board members, including chair Lawrence Kellner, to another term on 20 April, while rejecting a proposal to require the company disclose more lobbying details.
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NewsBoeing plans to transfer Paine Field Dreamlifter center to FedEx: report
Boeing declines to comment about a recent report that the company has nearly finalised a deal to transfer the lease its Dreamlifter cargo facility at Paine Field in Everett to air cargo giant FedEx.