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NewsVaccines ‘no guarantee’ for border reopening: Australia health minister
While Australia looks at “progressively opening up” its borders this year amid an ongoing inoculation drive, its health minister has cautioned that vaccination is “no guarantee” for reopening.
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NewsEasyJet edges capacity levels upwards as it aims for summer recovery
UK budget carrier EasyJet is expecting to fly up to 20% of its pre-crisis capacity over the third quarter, up from 14% during the first half, and foresees these levels to start increasing from late May onwards. The airline provided the latest outlook as it projected first-half headline pre-tax losses, ...
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NewsBiden to allow UAE F-35A, MQ-9B acquisition: report
The Biden administration plans to move forward with $23 billion in arms sales to the United Arab Emirates, according a report citing congressional aides.
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NewsBoeing delivers only two KC-46A tankers in Q1 2021
Despite orders for dozens more KC-46A Pegasus in-flight refuelling tankers in recent months, Boeing only delivered two examples of the aircraft in the first quarter of 2021.
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NewsPrototype sections for 'Russified' Superjet's PD-8 engine emerge
Russia’s United Engine has completed manufacturing work on the primary components of a prototype Aviadvigatel PD-8 powerplant. The PD-8 is a lower-thrust variant of a family which centres on the PD-14 designed for the Irkut MC-21-310. It is intended for eventual use on the Sukhoi Superjet 100 as a fully-domestic ...
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NewsAir Canada begins to offer refunds for non-refundable fares
Air Canada says it will begin to offer refunds to customers whose flights were cancelled or who did not use their non-refundable tickets due to the coronavirus crisis that has been dragging on for more than a year.
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NewsGermany’s Sundair exits restructuring process
German leisure carrier Sundair has emerged from its ‘protective shield’ restructuring process after five months of reorganisation.
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NewsBoeing nets 40 new aircraft orders in March despite more Max cancellations
Boeing marked a second straight month of positive order activity in March, with orders for new jets offsetting an ongoing stream of 737 Max cancellations.
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NewsTarom to sell half of its fleet
Romanian carrier Tarom has put 14 aircraft up for sale, including all of its Airbus A318s, Boeing 737-300s and 737-700s.
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NewsUnited launches ‘sustainable’ fuel investment scheme
United Airlines has launched “Eco-Skies Alliance”, a programme through which it will allow customers and corporate partners to invest in sustainable aviation fuels (SAF).
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NewsAirbus extends sustainable-fuel Beluga operations to UK
Airbus has extended the use of sustainably-fuelled A300-600ST Beluga outsize transports to its UK wing plant at Broughton. It has carried out an initial flight from the UK facility with aicraft F-GSTF – one of five -600STs in the airframer’s logistics fleet, fitted with General Electric CF6 engines – partially ...
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NewsFirst AH-1Z Viper enters final assembly for Bahrain
Bell expects to deliver its first AH-1Z attack helicopter to launch export operator Bahrain before year-end, with the nation’s first “Viper” having entered final assembly.
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NewsEASA draws up initial certification requirements for electric and hybrid engines
European aviation safety regulators have drawn up an initial set of certification requirements for electric or hybrid propulsion systems for future aircraft types. The in-depth special condition has been shaped from an initial proposal in January last year, following extensive comments from multiple aerospace companies including Airbus, Boeing, Embraer, Rolls-Royce, ...
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NewsItalian start-up SkyAlps signs for Dash 8-400s
Italian start-up regional carrier SkyAlps has agreed to lease a pair of De Havilland Dash 8-400 turboprops from Chorus Aviation Capital. The aircraft are scheduled to be delivered to the Bolzano-based airline in April and May. Chorus has identified the airframes involved as MSN4230 and MSN4237. These aircraft were both ...
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NewsFlybe operating licence again under threat as sale nears completion
Administrators of collapsed UK regional carrier Flybe are immersed in renewed scrap over the airline’s operating licence, as the transaction to sell the business nears completion. The administrators had already averted a bid last year by the Civil Aviation Authority to revoke the airline’s licence, after the pandemic resulted in ...
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NewsNok Air secures final one-month extension on rehabilitation plan
Nok Air has been granted a second and final one-month extension, until 15 May, to submit its rehabilitation plan.
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NewsLockheed secures production contract for Korean MH-60Rs
Lockheed Martin has secured a $447 million contract from the US Navy to produce 12 Sikorsky MH-60R anti-submarine warfare (ASW) helicopters for South Korea.
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NewsCanada takes equity stake in Air Canada in C$5.9bn bailout deal
The government of Canada will take an equity stake in legacy carrier Air Canada after the company struck a deal for financial support as the coronavirus crisis continues to tear into the airline’s business.
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NewsUS Navy tests radar-guided missile decoy on P-8A Poseidon
The US Navy has successfully completed an airworthiness test of a radio frequency countermeasure pod prototype on a Boeing P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft.
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NewsGreece’s Aegean looks to second half for recovery
Greek carrier Aegean Airlines is expecting a gradual, but significant, recovery in the second half of this year, if progress with coronavirus vaccination roll-out and European digital passport initiatives progress. But the company says the first months of this year have been “heavily impacted” by restrictions, as it unveils the ...