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Bombardier introduces Gogo’s Avance L5 retrofit for older Learjets
Bombardier has introduced the Gogo Avance L5 in-flight connectivity system as a retrofit for North America-based operators of its older Learjet aircraft
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Weapon wing integration keeps Wildcat on target for carrier protection role
The UK Royal Navy’s Wildcat HMA2 rotorcraft will be ready to defend the service’s largest-ever warships from next year, with the integration of key new armaments proceeding on schedule, Leonardo Helicopters says.
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Norwegian slashes transatlantic capacity as coronavirus hits demand
Norwegian is cutting 22 long-haul flights between Europe and the USA between 28 March and 5 May, as passenger numbers dive as a result of the coronavirus outbreak.
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IATA flags up to $113 billion revenue hit from coronavirus ‘crisis’
Airlines globally could see lost revenues of between $63 billion to $113 billion in 2020, depending on the extent of the coronavirus outbreak, says IATA, as it labels the impact “a crisis”.
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Etihad reports $870 million annual loss
Etihad Airways narrowed its loss in 2019, to $870 million from $1.28 billion the year before, as the Abu Dhabi carrier cut capacity 6% as part of its transformation programme.
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Kuwait A330-800 delivery set for third quarter
Kuwait Airways appears set to take delivery of its first Airbus A330-800 in the third quarter of this year. FlightGlobal understands, from a source familiar with the situation, that the airline is working to this timetable following the certification of the -800 in mid-February. Kuwait Airways is configuring the Rolls-Royce ...
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Ex-Hawaiian chief Dunkerley among new Airbus board candidates
Airbus is proposing former Hawaiian Airlines chief Mark Dunkerley and ex-Lufthansa Group finance head Stephan Gemkow to join the airframer’s board of directors. The manufacturer has previously disclosed that chairman Denis Ranque is stepping down from his post as chairman, after seven years, following the company’s annual general meeting on ...
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Coronavirus dealt fatal blow to embattled Flybe: shareholder
Impact of the coronavirus outbreak sealed the fate of struggling UK regional carrier Flybe, shareholder Virgin Atlantic has claimed. Virgin Atlantic was one of three investors in the Connect Airways consortium which took over Flybe a little more than a year ago and intended to develop the airline as a ...
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Beleaguered Flybe ceases operations
UK regional carrier Flybe, which was beset by financial woes, has ceased operations and filed for administration. The airline has appointed Alan Hudson, Joanne Robinson, Lucy Winterborne and Simon Edel of professional services firm Ernst & Young as joint administrators, a notice on its website reads. “All flights have been ...
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Hong Kong probes Etihad 787 course deviation
Hong Kong’s Air Accident Investigation Authority is investigating an incident where an Etihad Boeing 787-9 deviated from the localiser course while landing. The incident occurred on 7 September, 2019 at around 10:41 local time. The twinjet, registered A6-BLF (MSN 39651), was operating flight 834 from Abu Dhabi to Hong Kong, ...
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Canberra to sell remaining “Classic" Hornets to US training firm
Canberra plans to sell 46 Boeing F/A-18 A/B “Classic” Hornets to Air USA, a firm that provides tactical airpower training services to the US military and international customers. The aircraft are being retired as Canberra takes delivery of up to 72 Lockheed Martin F-35As, which are replacing the Hornet in ...
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Coronavirus hit to January traffic the ‘tip of the iceberg’: IATA
IATA data shows that passenger traffic growth slowed to 2.4% in January – the weakest monthly increase since April 2010, and a sharp decrease from December 2019’s 4.6% rise in revenue passenger-kilometres. “January was just the tip of the iceberg in terms of the traffic impacts we are seeing owing ...
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Coronavirus fears to shut down Lockheed Martin F-35 production in Japan
Lockheed Martin and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries plan to shut down production at the F-35’s Final Assembly and Check-Out (FACO) facility in Nagoya, Japan the week of 9-13 March due to fears of coronavirus contagion.
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Struggling UK carrier Flybe reportedly set to cease operations
Troubled UK regional carrier Flybe is widely reported to be set to cease operations and file for administration.
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US airlines ask President Trump to reassure virus-weary travellers
US airline chief executives met with President Donald Trump and other officials in Washington, DC on 4 March to discuss their industry’s response to the coronavirus outbreak. They also urged Trump to assure the American public that air travel remains safe – a request coming as the industry reels from sagging demand and virus-spooked travellers.
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Coronavirus hits US airlines as United slashes 10% of US flight schedules
United Airlines has slashed North American flight schedules 10% starting this spring, implemented a hiring freeze, offered staff unpaid leave and postponed some salary increases – all in response to sagging demand from the ongoing coronavirus outbreak.
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FAA approves Erickson S-64E Skycrane’s new composite main rotor blade
“Benefits are expected to include higher lift capacity in almost all flight conditions, including a greater than 1,350kg (3,000lb) lift increase at hot and high conditions, a 33% lower manufacturing cost, 75% lower maintenance costs and 3% lower fuel consumption,” the company said in 2017.
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Impeded descent preceded 747’s false glideslope crash
Investigators have given greater insight into the initial altitude deviation by a descending Boeing 747-400 freighter which preceded the aircraft’s capturing a false glideslope and fatally crashing at Bishkek. The inquiry into the accident, at night on 16 January 2017, had already established that the aircraft had been too high ...
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Virus prompts Delta to slash Japan capacity
The ongoing coronavirus outbreak has led Delta Air Lines to slash capacity to Japan and delay a plan to launch flights from Seoul to Manila.
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Norway makes progress with NH90 ASW introduction
Norway is making progress with the introduction of the NH Industries NH90 NFH maritime helicopter for anti-submarine warfare (ASW) missions, having taken delivery of the first aircraft in August last year.