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NewsUK developer shows off 70-seat hybrid as it rejects smaller designs
UK developers have unveiled a prospective design for a 70-seat hybrid-electric regional propeller-driven airliner, which could be in service by 2028. The aircraft is being promoted as an alternative development path, against the propensity for electric programmes to focus on small 19-seat designs. Featuring a quad-engined, high-wing and twin-fin configuration, ...
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NewsUK kicks off zero-carbon flight push
Country aims to realise emission-free commercial flight by the end of the decade
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NewsBoeing set to start ecoDemonstrator flights using Etihad-bound 787
Covid-19 aside, Boeing plans later this year to roll out its latest ecoDemonstrator – an Etihad Airways-bound 787-10.
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NewsAirbus preparing for uncertainty as it navigates ‘gravest crisis’
Airbus chief executive Guillaume Faury has warned that the company may need to adapt again in future as it navigates the “gravest crisis” in the company’s history.
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NewsAir Baltic chief ‘optimistic’ but says slow pace is critical
Air Baltic and the wider airline industry will successfully navigate the coronavirus crisis as long as a cautious approach is taken to reinstating services, according to the carrier’s chief executive Martin Gauss.
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InterviewDelivering innovative programmes for VA Airline Training
Anthony Petteford is managing director of VA Airline Training, based in the UK, where he strives to balance the equally important needs of trainees, airlines and their sponsors
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NewsDSEI targets air sector expansion for 2021 show
Still some 14 months away from its next gathering in London’s Docklands, the UK’s tri-service DSEI exhibition is eyeing a major expansion to its aerospace sector footprint.
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NewsEASA approves flightdeck and engine upgrades for Piper Seminole
Piper has secured European certification for the addition of a Garmin G1000 NXi integrated flightdeck and a fuel-injection engine in its PA-44 Seminole piston-twin.
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NewsIran transfers recorders of shot-down 737 to French investigators
Iranian investigators have arrived at the facility of French accident analysis bureau BEA with the flight recorders from the Boeing 737-800 shot down over Tehran in January. The arrival of the Iranian team at BEA’s facility in Paris marks an important advancement in the investigation, after six months of uncertainty ...
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NewsChinese ‘Big Three’ warn again of first-half earnings hit, despite traffic recovery
China’s three largest state-owned carriers have reiterated warnings that their first-half financial results will take a hit from the coronavirus outbreak, even as its June passenger traffic continued to improve month on month. In similarly-worded impact statements released together with its monthly traffic results, Air China, China Eastern Airlines ...
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NewsLockheed lands $15 billion deal for C-130J work
The US government has awarded Lockheed Martin a $15 billion contract related to upgrade work across the world’s C-130J tactical transport fleet.
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NewsBoeing lands digital service deals with Asian carriers
Boeing’s services division has inked a series of orders and contracts— mostly with Asian carriers — for its digital and training products. Boeing Global Services announced that Japan Airlines, All Nippon Airways, as well as Xiamen Airlines have signed for its optimised maintenance programme that will be tap on ...
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NewsLessors negotiate with Thai on rental deferrals
Most of Thai Airways’ dozen lessors are expected to reject a request from the airline to defer rental payments for 12 months but will likely acquiesce to a deferral until at least September, sources say. Some lessors are more supportive of the airline’s rehabilitation and willing to be patient than ...
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NewsIcelandair withdraws mass cabin crew lay-off after new deal emerges
Icelandair Group has reversed an extraordinary decision to dismiss all its cabin crew, after a swift resumption of negotiations resulted in another tentative collective bargaining agreement. The operator’s mass sacking of its flight attendants, which would have involved replacing them with pilots from 20 July, had initially spurred a strike ...
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NewsIcelandair cabin crew to ballot for strike after mass dismissal
Icelandair’s cabin crew union has called a ballot to vote for strike action following the failure of talks over a new collective agreement, after which the airline sacked all its flight attendants. The proposed strike would be indefinite and begin on 4 August, subject to a confirmation vote to be ...
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NewsIcelandair orders pilots to take over after dismissing all its cabin crew
Icelandair Group is dismissing its entire cabin crew corps and placing the responsibility for on-board safety with Icelandair’s pilots, after efforts to reach a new collective bargaining agreement failed. Cabin crew members with the FFI union rejected a tentative agreement on 8 July and Icelandair Group says subsequent talks have ...
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NewsAirbus begins delivering sustainable-fuel-powered jets from Hamburg
Airbus’s Hamburg Finkenwerder assembly site has started delivering aircraft powered by a sustainable-fuel blend, handing off an A321LR to Canadian carrier Air Transat. The European airframer has delivered jets powered by sustainable fuel since 2016, but until now only from its Toulouse facility and the US assembly site in Mobile, ...
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NewsUnited’s pilot union green-lights voluntary measures to mitigate layoffs
The union representing United Airlines’ pilots has voted to accept voluntary staff reduction plans that would help reduce the number of pilots who might be laid off in the coming months.
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In depthWhy Sea Kings still rule for HeliOperations
On the face of it, a UK company flying former Royal Navy (RN) Sea King helicopters on behalf of the German navy from a former coastguard base in the very south of England sounds an unlikely combination, or at least the set-up for a convoluted joke. But for Portland-based HeliOperations, that union is proving a lucrative one.
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NewsSteering Boeing Global Services customers through the crisis
Ted Colbert, chief executive of the manufacturer’s giant aftersales division, explains how BGS is helping operators stay in the air in these troubled times, and why the potential of big data is still far from being achieved