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Hainan Airlines, Sichuan Airlines seek international rights
Hainan Airlines and Sichuan Airlines have applied to launch new international services in January 2019.
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Caribbean Airlines to renew fleet with 12 737 Max 8s
Trinidad and Tobago's flag carrier Caribbean Airlines will renew its fleet with the Boeing 737 Max 8, and plans to take delivery of 12 aircraft in the coming years.
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Embraer KC-390 successfully completes troop unloading test
Embraer successfully completed a test of troop unloading and evacuation via the front and rear doors of its KC-390 at Brasília Air Force Base, in Brazil on 21 November.
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ANALYSIS: Business aircraft output up, but shipment value slides
Worldwide shipments of fixed-wing business and general aviation aircraft made modest gains in the nine months ended 30 September, but the period marked one of the "few times" since the 2008 financial crisis that output rose across all three sectors – business jets, turboprops and piston-powered aircraft – according to ...
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Bombardier to cut 490 jobs in Belfast
Bombardier plans to cut 490 jobs at its UK facility in Belfast as part of wider efforts to restructure the Canadian manufacturer’s aerospace activities.
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Airbus sets date for first A330neo delivery to TAP
Airbus plans to deliver the first A330-900 to launch operator TAP Air Portugal on 26 November.
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Wizz to open dozen routes from new Krakow base
Wizz Air is to make Krakow its fifth base in Poland, under plans which will see the Central European budget carrier open 12 new routes from the airport in 2019.
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PICTURE: Laudamotion takes first A320s under Ryanair ownership
Ryanair unit Laudamotion has taken delivery of the first two Airbus A320s being leased from SMBC Aviation Capital.
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FACC to help bring Ehang passenger-carrying drone to market
Chinese drone firm Ehang has recruited Austrian composites manufacturer FACC as partner for the development and production of autonomous air taxis.
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France and Germany forge ahead with future fighter
France and Germany are progressing their plans to develop a next-generation combat aircraft and will launch demonstrator programmes for the aircraft and engine in mid-2019.
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Probe into 737 near-overrun details temperature blunders
Pilots of a Sunwing Airlines Boeing 737-800 twice entered an incorrect temperature figure during take-off calculations, leading to its departing Belfast with insufficient thrust and virtually overrunning the runway.
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EASA expands AW169 helicopter safety directive
Europe's safety regulator has expanded an emergency airworthiness directive for the Leonardo Helicopters AW169 to incorporate its tail rotor bearings.
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Corrosion concerns ground Ju-Air's remaining Ju 52s
Swiss regulators have grounded two remaining Junkers Ju 52s operated by Ju-Air over airworthiness concerns, three months after a fatal accident involving another of its aircraft.
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ANALYSIS: Italy combines capabilities for future tiltrotor
As part of its Clean Sky 2 initiative, the EU is funding two parallel projects to develop high-speed rotorcraft: the Airbus Helicopters Racer and Leonardo Helicopters Next-Gen Civil Tiltrotor (NGCTR).
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Sunwing 737 Max suffers spurious indication incident
Canadian investigators have disclosed that engineers replaced an air data computer on a Sunwing Airlines Boeing 737 Max 8 after the crew received spurious indications from the aircraft’s instruments.
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El Al shifts 787 fleet further towards -9 variant
Israeli carrier El Al has cancelled one of the Boeing 787-8s it had on order with the US airframer, part of a rejig of the fleet ownership structure.
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Philippine operator takes delivery of H130
Philippine helicopter operator AirTaxi.ph has taken delivery of it first Airbus Helicopters H130 light single, with the type to be used for transport and sightseeing in the southern Philippines.
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Northrop Grumman contract advances Japan RQ-4 work
The US Air Force has awarded Northrop Grumman an additional $490 million contract related to Tokyo’s acquisition of three RQ-4 Global Hawk Block 30(I) unmanned air vehicles.
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ANALYSIS: China Southern looks to life after SkyTeam
China Southern Airlines' upcoming departure from SkyTeam will be closely watched, and could lead the way for airlines leaning towards building individual partnerships and shying away from global alliances, should it continue to flourish outside a grouping.
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Departing 737 fatally strikes person on Moscow runway
Russian investigators are probing an accident in which a departing aircraft fatally struck a person on the runway at Moscow Sheremetyevo.