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NewsVietnamese conglomerate nixes Vinpearl Air startup
Vietnamese conglomerate Vingroup has abandoned plans to establish an airline known as Vinpearl Air, citing a desire to focus on its core strengths and a potential oversupply in the aviation market.
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NewsKorean Air offloads non-core assets and pledges transparency
Korean Air is selling non-core assets in a bid to “improve its financial position and increase its corporate transparency”. This includes real estate in downtown Seoul and a 100% owned leisure company that operates a resort in Incheon, just outside Seoul. Plans for the assets in question had to be ...
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NewsNew Delhi approves Alliance Air to operate India-Sri Lanka flights
Air India’s regional unit Alliance Air has been granted “special dispensation” by the Indian government to operate between India and Sri Lanka. A notice from the civil aviation ministry states that the exemption would stay in place until the carrier has a minimum of 20 aircraft, or has about 20% ...
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NewsJAL signs codeshare pacts with MIAT Mongolian and Royal Brunei
Japan Airlines is extending its reach into Mongolia and Brunei through codesharing pacts with their respective flag carriers. JAL says the codeshare with MIAT Mongolian Airlines would cover that carrier’s flights from Ulaanbaatar to Tokyo Narita and Osaka Kansai, starting 31 March. Cirium schedules data show that MIAT flies five ...
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NewsUnited president encouraged by Boeing NMA ‘blank sheet’
United Airlines president Scott Kirby is encouraged that Boeing will go back to the drawing board for its proposed New Mid-market Airplane (NMA) widebody aircraft even as it remains mired in the grounding of 737 Max aircraft. “We are encouraged that Boeing is taking a blank sheet on the NMA,” ...
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News2019 the worst year for air freight in a decade: IATA
Last year brought the steepest decline in demand for air freight since 2009, newly released IATA data shows. Freight tonne-kilometres fell 3.3%. “This was the first year of declining freight volumes since 2012, and the weakest performance since the global financial crisis in 2009 (when air freight markets contracted by ...
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NewsUS Special Operations plans to buy 75 light attack aircraft for Armed Overwatch
The US Special Operations Command plans on buying 75 fixed-wing aircraft for its just-announced Armed Overwatch programme.
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NewsBoeing has no time to lose on NMA decision
Industry experts say Boeing must move quickly towards making a decision on its new mid-market airplane (NMA), a project it has been talking about for years but was recently put on the back burner as it continues to deal with the fallout from the year-long 737 Max crisis.
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NewsA350 cockpits must have ‘liquid free’ zone after spill incidents
Airbus A350 operators have been ordered to define a “liquid prohibited” zone in the cockpit, after two incidents in which beverage spillages on the centre pedestal led to in-flight shutdown of a Rolls-Royce Trent XWB engine. FlightGlobal exclusively revealed last month that a liquid spill had preceded a Delta Air ...
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NewsUnited buys flight training academy in bid to strengthen pilot pipeline
United Airlines has agreed to buy a Phoenix flight training academy to help ensure its pilot ranks remain well stocked as new-pilot demand surges in the coming years.
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NewsTailwind element present before Pegasus 737 overrun break-up
Weather data from Istanbul’s Sabiha Gokcen airport indicates rain and a strong tailwind component at the time when a landing Pegasus Airlines Boeing 737-800 overran the runway and broke up. Emergency services are attending the scene of the accident. Pegasus says injured passengers have been taken to hospital but states ...
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NewsBombardier to more than double UK service centre capacity
Bombardier is set to more than double service centre capacity at its UK base in London Biggin Hill airport to accommodate its growing business jet fleet in Europe; in particular, the increasing number of Global 7500s that are expected to arrive on the continent over the coming years.
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NewsFinland’s HX contest heats up, as evaluations advance
Finland has reached the mid-way point in its HX Challenge process: an in-country evaluation of the five types on offer to meet its future fighter requirement.
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NewsJuly delivery planned as A321P2F begins flight testing
Flight testing is under way of the first Airbus single-aisle passenger-to-freighter conversion, the A321P2F, with delivery targeted for July.
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NewsElbit to fly Hermes 900 for UK search and rescue trials
Elbit Systems will this year carry out a series of tests in the UK to assess the feasibility of using unmanned air vehicles (UAVs) to support search and rescue operations.
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NewsCathay Pacific asks staff to take unpaid leave amid coronavirus fallout
Cathay Pacific is encouraging its employees to take three weeks of unpaid leave, in a bid to save money, after being forced to slash capacity by 30% as a result of falling demand related to China’s coronavirus outbreak.
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NewsAnti-corruption group presses for Airbus prosecutions
Prosecutors should pursue Airbus executives alleged to have participated in bribery on behalf of the airframer, the anti-corruption organisation Transparency International is insisting. Airbus has settled a four-year investigation into the manufacturer through a deferred prosecution agreement which enabled the company to avoid a conviction, although the fraud probe in ...
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NewsQatar Airways in negotiations to acquire 49% of RwandAir
Qatar Airways is in talks to acquire a 49% stake in state-owned RwandAir and is “keen to invest” in Indian low-cost carrier IndiGo when the time is right, the Gulf carrier’s chief executive Akbar Al Baker disclosed today.
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NewsSwiftair ATR icing stall inquiry catalogues series of crew failures
Spanish investigators have determined that a Swiftair ATR 72-500 stalled while climbing through icing conditions as a result of the pilots’ failure to manage the flight correctly and their “inappropriate” use of automation. The turboprop (EC-KKQ) lost airspeed and height and rolled to excessive bank angles during the Alicante-Madrid service ...
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NewsIAI in MOU with Indian firms on local UAV production
Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) has signed a memorandum of understanding related to UAVs with two Indian companies. The MOU with Hindustan Aeronautics (HAL) and Dynametic Technologies will be help promote the indigenous production of UAVs, under the auspices of the country’s “Make In India” policy, says IAI. ...