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NewsAvianca cancels 20 A320neo orders
Colombian airline Avianca has cancelled 20 Airbus A320neo purchase commitments and delayed Airbus deliveries of A320neos until 2025, marking another step in the carrier’s financial transformation effort. “The company has reduced its firm commitments to 88 A320neo aircraft from 108,” Avianca says in a 7 January media release. “Previously scheduled ...
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NewsAlaska Air Group CFO to retire in March
Alaska Air Group’s chief financial officer Brandon Pedersen will retire on 2 March after working in finance positions at the company since 2003.
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NewsAirbus in line to offer dimmable windows: supplier
Airbus is offering electronically-dimmable windows on its aircraft, according to a Michigan-based supplier of the technology. Gentex Corporation disclosed the development during the CES2020 consumer technology show in Las Vegas. It says that Airbus is “now offering” the technology on its aircraft, although neither party has indicated which aircraft types ...
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NewsPegasus 737-800 veers off runway at Istanbul
Pegasus Airlines has disclosed that a Boeing 737-800 suffered a runway excursion while landing in poor weather at Istanbul’s Sabiha Gokcen airport. The aircraft (TC-CCK) had been arriving from Sharjah, in the United Arab Emirates, as flight PC747. It conducted its approach to runway 06 at about 09:10 on 7 ...
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NewsBek Air further clouds picture of Fokker 100 crash
Bek Air is still pushing its theory that wake turbulence contributed to the loss of a Fokker 100 during take-off from Almaty, and is also indicating that the proximity of buildings should be examined by the inquiry. The airline has released further flight data which, it says, has been obtained ...
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NewsVietnam Airlines given green light for Delta partnership
The United States’ Department of Transport (DoT) has allowed Vietnam Airlines and Delta Air Lines to widen their codeshare cooperation. The approval comes after both carriers first inked an agreement last August with the intent of upgrading their relationship. The cooperation, expected to take effect this month, will see both ...
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NewsP&W names new commercial engines head
Pratt & Whitney has appointed Carroll Lane as the president of its commercial engines business. He succeeds Christopher Calio, who had been at the helm of the unit since January 2017. Calio was in June promoted to president of the company, succeeding outgoing P&W head Robert Leduc. ...
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NewsChecks required after Air France A380 engine blade failures
Investigators have yet to establish the root cause of a fan-blade fracture involved in an engine failure affecting an Air France Airbus A380. The US FAA states that the reason for the first-stage low-pressure compressor blade fracture is “still undetermined” in an interim directive requiring further precautionary action on Engine ...
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NewsInvestigators probe circumstances of WestJet 737 overrun
Canadian investigators have opened a probe into the overrun at Halifax Stanfield airport by a WestJet Boeing 737-800 which was arriving from Toronto on 5 January. The aircraft had been approaching the waypoint TETAR – some 11nm north-west of the airport – when it was told that the intended arrival ...
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NewsAircraft lessor Avation puts itself up for sale
Singapore-based lessor Avation has put itself up for sale and is in preliminary discussions with one interested party.
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NewsAir France A318 captures false glideslope at Toulon
French investigators are probing an incident during which an Airbus A318 encountered a false glideslope on approach to Toulon. The Air France aircraft had been operating from Paris Orly on 20 December, and had been descending towards Hyeres La Palyvestre airport. French investigation authority BEA states that the aircraft captured ...
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NewsVideo purports to show crashed Fokker’s tail being de-iced
Surveillance video images purporting to show an ill-fated Bek Air Fokker 100 being prepared for departure from Almaty indicate the aircraft’s horizontal stabiliser was de-iced. The footage does not appear to show the de-icing vehicle spraying the aircraft’s wings, although there is no confirmation as to whether the wings required ...
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OpinionChanging leaders does not solve all Boeing’s problems
Dennis Muilenburg took the Boeing helm in the summer of 2015 during a relatively benign period for the manufacturer. But as he departs, there is a very different atmosphere at the firm’s Chicago headquarters, where the ongoing 737 Max crisis still has many more questions than answers.
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NewsWake separation adequate before Bek F100 take-off: Kazaeronavigatsia
Kazakhstan’s air navigation service is rejecting the possibility that wake vortices from a preceding departure contributed to the aerodynamic instability of the Bek Air Fokker 100 which crashed at Almaty. Kazaeronavigatsia insists that there was sufficient departure spacing between the Bek Air flight, departing for Nur-Sultan on 27 December, and ...
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NewsSurveillance cameras capture Bek Air Fokker 100 accident
Surveillance cameras at Almaty airport captured the short flight of a Bek Air Fokker 100, and its subsequent collision with a building, after it failed to climb away after take-off on 27 December. After rotation the aircraft appears to start rolling left and right before losing height, according to the ...
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NewsImproved fatal airline accident trend takes step back in 2019
Fatal airline accident data for 2019 appears to confirm that a long period of consistent improvement in airline safety statistics is coming to an end. Until now, modern airline safety performance had improved relentlessly, decade by decade, since the Second World War.
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NewsLatecoere to acquire Bombardier’s Mexican wiring business
Canadian manufacturer Bombardier is to sell the electrical wiring activities at Queretaro site in Mexico to Latecoere. The French aerostructures and electrical equipment manufacturer will pay Bombardier $50 million for the operation, which employs around 700 staff and generates annual turnover of $80 million, the two companies have disclosed. As ...
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Airline BusinessDecade of mainline fleet evolution driven by growth and consolidation
Last year the aviation industry marked the centenary of international air travel. While much changed over those first 100 years, the most recent decade has seen some remarkable developments with unprecedented growth in commercial fleets driven by the expansion of the low-cost sector and the rise of new entrants. There have also been some interesting changes in the size and shape of the major airline groups, measured by fleet size.
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NewsIlyushin shows off flight-test livery for Il-114-300
Ilyushin has rolled out the first prototype of the modernised Il-114-300 turboprop, after it was painted ahead of certification flight tests. The aircraft features a simple livery with the name of the Ilyushin aviation complex on the fuselage and the model designation on the nose, with a Russian flag on ...
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NewsMed-View 737 depressurisation not reported to investigators
Nigerian specialists have disclosed that a serious depressurisation incident involving a Med-View Airline Boeing 737-500 was not reported to the country’s investigation authority. The aircraft (5N-BQM) had been cruising at 32,000ft en route from Abuja to Lagos, with 34 occupants, on 23 July. Lagos’s runway 18R had been closed and ...