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Bangkok Airways narrows losses in challenging second quarter
Bangkok Airways narrowed its second quarter operating loss to Bt493 million ($14.8 million) from Bt2.7 billion a year earlier, as it continued to suffer from the collapse of Thailand’s tourism market amid the coronavirus pandemic.
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Nigeria’s first Super Tucanos depart USA
Nigeria’s first batch of Embraer/Sierra Nevada (SNC) A-29 Super Tucano light-attack aircraft is on its way to the customer.
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Air New Zealand defers equity raise to first quarter of 2022
Air New Zealand will defer a planned equity raise to at least the first quarter of 2022, in accordance with New Zealand’s latest action plan for a phased reopening.
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Bell shows 360 Invictus scout helicopter more than 50% complete
Bell’s 360 Invictus scout helicopter prototype, its bid for the US Army’s Future Attack Reconnaisance Aircraft (FARA) programme, is more than 50% complete.
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Lockheed Martin finishes construction of new Skunk Works manufacturing plant
Lockheed Martin has finished constructing an “advanced manufacturing facility” at its Skunk Works headquarters in Palmdale, California – a site at which the company intends to manufacture unspecified products using new techniques.
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Brazil’s Azul optimistic about continued recovery
Brazilian airline Azul says business picked up markedly toward the end of the second quarter, and the airline remains positive that the country’s air transport recovery will continue in the coming months.
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TUI cuts summer capacity to 60% as UK restrictions weigh on demand
The European leisure giant had in May suggested that it expected to operate 75% of pre-crisis capacity from July onwards.
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Air Belgium’s first A330neo emerges in carrier’s colours
Air Belgium’s first Airbus A330neo has rolled out in the carrier’s full livery, one of two being acquired by the operator. Airbus has released images of the aircraft following painting, confirming it as MSN1861 – originally assigned to RwandAir through US lessor Air Lease. The twinjet, a -900 variant, is ...
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Scottish demo flight helps Ampaire SATE curiosity
Ampaire has completed a test flight in Scotland of its Electric EEL technology demonstrator, operating the modified Cessna 337 Skymaster on a 30nm (56km) sortie from Kirkwall in the Orkney Isles to Wick John O’Groats airport on the Scottish mainland. No details of the flight were immediately available, however. ...
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Underwater robotic vessels to search Russian lake for sunken Mi-8
Robotic underwater vessels are to be deployed in the recovery operation for a Mil Mi-8T helicopter which crashed into a lake which operating a tour flight in eastern Russia. The wreckage of the helicopter has been located about 700m from the shore of lake Kuril, on the Kamchatka peninsula. But ...
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Tokyo cuts LRASM weapon from F-15J upgrade programme on cost fears
Japan’s defence ministry has confirmed that an upgrade programme for 70 Boeing F-15Js will no longer include Lockheed Martin’s Long Range Anti-Ship Missile (LRASM) due to cost and schedule concerns.
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ST Engineering’s Commercial Aerospace unit reports S$89.7m H1 profit
ST Engineering’s Commercial Aerospace segment has reported an operating profit of S$89.7 million ($66 million) for the first half of 2021.
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Lufthansa launches 787 flight-training device from L3Harris
German flag-carrier Lufthansa’s training division has emerged as the launch customer for a Boeing 787 fixed flight-training device designed to complement full-flight simulator activity. Lufthansa Aviation Training is acquiring the device from L3Harris Technologies, and is ordering a 787 full-flight simulator as part of the agreement. Both the flight-training device ...
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Covid-19 creates vexing planning environment: Cathay chairman
Cathay Pacific Group chairman Patrick Healy has highlighted the difficulties the coronavirus pandemic poses for planning airline operations.
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IHI sees glimmers of hope in civil aircraft engine business
Japan’s IHI sees signs of recovery in its civil aircraft engines business, but warns of continued impact of coronavirus pandemic.
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Divers search for survivors after tourist Mi-8 sinks in Russian lake
Divers are assisting Russian emergency services to locate survivors after a Mil Mi-8 helicopter operating a tourism service crashed and sank in Kuril crater lake, in the southern Kamchatka peninsula. Sixteen occupants, including 13 passengers and three crew members, were on board the aircraft which was flying from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky on ...
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Jakarta reaffirms interest in KF-21/IF-X; engineers returning to Korea
Indonesian aerospace engineers will return to South Korea to continue work on the Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI) KF-21/IF-X, underlining Jakarta’s continued support of the programme.
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Cebu Pacific suffers another tough quarter amid Covid-19
Cebu Pacific Air narrowed its second quarter operating loss to P5.8 billion ($115 million), with revenue more than doubling to P3.2 billion from a year earlier.
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Royal Brunei Airlines cuts July-October schedule amid outbreak
Royal Brunei Airlines will reduce flight operations to a few direct services between July and October, amid a new wave of Covid-19 infections.
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Canadian airlines welcome government plan for vaccination passport
Canadian airlines are welcoming the goverment’s plan to create a digital vaccination passport for international travellers, to be rolled out within weeks.