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Air India, Air India Express, AirAsia India to consolidate offices
Tata Group carriers Air India, Air India Express, and AirAsia India will be co-located in a bid to promote collaboration.
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Vietjet 737 Max deliveries set for 2024-28
Vietnam low-cost carrier Vietjet Air has signalled that it will receive Boeing 737 Max aircraft from 2024 to 2028, having recently reaffirmed orders for 200 examples.
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El Al to repay government loan by year-end under revised aid pact
Israeli flag-carrier El Al has reached a new agreement with the government under which it will advance repayment of $45 million in support loans granted by the state. The repayment, brought forward by two years, will be carried out by 20 December. El Al says the new pact means most ...
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SAS obtains court approval for bridge financing
Scandinavia’s SAS has obtained court approval for the $700 million bridge financing agreed with funding firm Apollo Global Management. SAS, which is restructuring under US Chapter 11 protection, had disclosed on 14 August that it had secured the provision agreement for debtor-in-possession financing. The company says the court approval for ...
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Learjet crashes into San Diego Bay
A private jet crashed into San Diego Bay on 9 September after attempting to land at a nearby airfield.
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Analysts warn small aerospace suppliers could topple amid recovery
More small aerospace suppliers could fail under economy pressure as the aerospace industry recovers from the Covid-19 pandemic.
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China’s lockdowns could push international air travel rebound to 2026
Some aviation analysts now think international air travel may not fully recover until 2025 or 2026 due largely to China’s continuation of its travel-busting “zero-Covid” policy.
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Aeroflot Group’s Rossiya names new general director
Aeroflot Group carrier Rossiya has named Yan Burg as its general director, formalising a position in which he has acted since early March. He joined the airline as technical director in October 2018, having previously worked for Russian Helicopters as well as Aeroflot. Burg has an educational background in aircraft ...
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Collins to ship 1MW motor to P&WC this month as hybrid project progresses
Collins Aerospace plans this month to ship a 1MW electric motor to Pratt & Whitney Canada (P&WC), advancing a project to demonstrate a hybrid-electric-modified De Havilland Canada Dash 8.
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Romania’s Blue Air delays service restart until 10 October
Romanian low-cost carrier Blue Air has pushed back its resumption of flights until 10 October, having initially cancelled flights until 11 September.
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Rolls-Royce had warrants for 50% stake in ACCEL partner Electroflight, documents reveal
UK propulsion specialist Rolls-Royce was in a position to acquire up to 50% of Electroflight – one of its partners in the record-breaking ACCEL project – with that interest subsequently highlighted by the battery provider’s administrator as a barrier to badly needed outside investment.
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Russian government prolongs loan subsidy scheme for lessors taking domestic aircraft
Russia’s government is extending a loan subsidy programme to ease the process through which lessors acquire domestically-built aircraft to lease to carriers. The programme – which was initiated a decade ago, in October 2012 – had applied to loans taken by lessors from 2008-21 but it will be extended, under ...
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Bell hopeful that Seoul will take another look at AH-1Z
Bell is in early discussions with Seoul about potential industrial collaboration on the AH-1Z Viper attack helicopter should the type be selected for a South Korean requirement for 24 rotorcraft.
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EASA examines system to maintain flight-guidance while airspeed unreliable
European safety regulators have been assessing a request to implement a system on a large aircraft which will maintain flight-guidance functions despite the unavailability of reliable airspeed data. Unreliable airspeed typically results in the disconnection of the autopilot, autothrust and flight-directors. The system under consideration will have three operating modes, ...
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Airbus, Indonesian Aerospace reaffirm cooperation
Airbus and Indonesian Aerospace (PTDI) have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) reaffirming their longstanding industrial cooperation.
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Vietjet swings to operating loss in first half of 2022
Vietnam low-cost carrier Vietjet Air swung to an operating loss of D192 trillion ($8 million) in the first six months of 2022, compared with an operating profit of D157 trillion a year earlier.
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‘Inappropriate’ autobrake use led to China Eastern A321 runway excursion in Hong Kong
Hong Kong investigators have found that the “inappropriate” use of autobrake mode of a China Eastern Airlines Airbus A321 - coupled with inclement weather - led to the aircraft veering off the runway after landing.
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Air Transat gains ground, still posts Q3 financial loss
Transat AT, the parent company of Canadian airline Air Transat, reports stronger third-quarter financial results compared with the pandemic-stunted figures of last year but still operated at a loss during the three-month period.
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DARPA launches expeditionary vertical take-off X-plane effort
The Pentagon’s secretive research arm is seeking design submissions for a next-generation vertical take-off platform that can operate from ships and austere airfields with minimal support infrastructure.
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All outstanding Qatar A350-1000s cut from Airbus backlog
All the outstanding Airbus A350-1000s for Qatar Airways have been removed from the airline’s backlog, according to the airframer’s latest official monthly figures. Qatar Airways had 42 A350-1000s on order of which 19 have been delivered. But a legal dispute over skin-paint deterioration on Qatar’s A350s led the airline to ...