All articles by David Kaminski-Morrow – Page 192
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NewsA380 reprieve would have worsened Airbus pandemic strain: Faury
Airbus chief executive Guillaume Faury believes the airframer’s pandemic-related predicament over the last 18 months would have been far worse had it not independently opted to terminate the A380 programme. Emirates has become the latest to scrap early-delivery aircraft, after tying up with a recycling firm to assist with dismantling ...
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NewsLessor World Star to take up to 20 converted 737-800s from IAI
Leasing firm World Star Aviation is to take up to 20 Boeing 737-800 converted freighters, which will be modified by Israel Aerospace Industries. The jets will be converted into cargo configuration at the Chinese-based facility Bedek Lingyun Aircraft Maintenance Engineering – known as Belinco – located in Yichang. IAI says ...
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NewsLessors in Saudia Airbus legal row denied access to executives’ phone data
Leasing companies engaged in a legal battle with Saudi Arabian flag-carrier Saudia over aircraft payments have been denied access to documents held on the mobile phones of two senior executives of the carrier, including chairman and former director general Saleh bin Nasser Al Jasser. The long-running case centres on the ...
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NewsRussian researchers test modified ‘flying wing’ passenger aircraft concept
Russian researchers are conducting windtunnel tests of a modified ‘flying wing’ concept aircraft for potential application to a future mainline or regional airliner. The concept model – build on a scale of 1:33 – features an “unconventional” configuration, says the Central Aerohydrodynamic Institute, with engines located above the central fuselage. ...
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NewsAirbus must restore 70-per-month delivery rate to reach full-year target
Airbus handed over just 36 aircraft in October, confirming the airframer’s expectation of a continuing stall in the recovery of its delivery rates. Although monthly deliveries had picked up this year – exceeding 70 aircraft in March and again in June – they have not climbed above 40 aircraft since ...
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NewsIberia conducts domestic flight with waste-based biofuel
Spanish carrier Iberia has carried out a domestic service using sustainable fuel produced from waste as a raw material. The IAG airline operated the Madrid-Bilbao flight, IB426, using an Airbus A320neo powered by CFM International Leap-1A engines. Its operation followed a collaboration agreement signed between Iberia and the energy company ...
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NewsAirbus keen to restore crisis-hit ATR’s performance: Faury
Airbus chief executive Guillaume Faury says the airframer is striving restore the profitability of its ATR venture, as the regional aircraft manufacturer marks 40 years since its creation. Faury tells FlightGlobal that ATR – founded on 4 November 1981 – has been a “performing” entity but one which has “suffered ...
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NewsEmirates opens Israeli links with 777-300ER service to Tel Aviv
Middle Eastern carrier Emirates is to join the market for Israeli flights, with daily services to Tel Aviv starting in the first week of December. Emirates says it will open the link following the diplomatic normalisation between Israel and the United Arab Emirates agreed last year. Ties between the two ...
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NewsAggressive Wizz lays ground to capitalise on summer 2022
Central European budget carrier Wizz Air has turned in a second-quarter operating profit of €57 million ($66 million), but is expecting an operating loss of €200 million in the third as the company enters the winter season. Chief executive Joszef Varadi says the quarter showed the airline’s “return towards” pre-crisis ...
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NewsBelarusian authority suspends An-12 services after fatal Irkutsk crash
Belarusian authorities have suspended commercial operations with Antonov An-12s as a precaution following the accident involving an Aircompany Grodno aircraft at Irkutsk. The Belarusian transport ministry says the aviation division’s suspension has been put in place pending the findings of the inquiry. Seven personnel were on board, according to the ...
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NewsBelarusian An-12 crashes during approach to Irkutsk
Russian investigators have opened a probe into an accident which destroyed a Belarusian-registered Antonov An-12BK in the vicinity of Irkutsk. The aircraft was operated by the carrier Aircompany Grodno – located in the city of Grodno, in western Belarus – and was conducting a freight service from Keperveyem to Yakutsk ...
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NewsProspective investors emerge for troubled Frankfurt Hahn airport
Potential investors have started emerging following the appointment of a provisional administrator for Germany’s Frankfurt Hahn airport. The airport’s operator filed for insolvency in mid-October but administrator Jan Markus Plathner says Hahn is able to function for winter flights. “It has been possible to create the conditions for winter flight ...
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NewsDeparting with ice contamination 'normalised' before fatal West Wind ATR 42 crash
Canadian investigators believe the unsafe practice of departing from remote airports with a degree of icing contamination on critical surfaces had become normalised, before a fatal accident involving a West Wind ATR 42-300 at Fond-du-Lac. This normalisation resulted partly from the inadequacy of de-icing equipment or services at these remote ...
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NewsEASA to examine safety concerns and risk-mitigation for single-pilot operations
Safety aspects of two potential scenarios for single-pilot operations in commercial aircraft are to be assessed under a new research project initiated by the European Union Aviation Safety Agency. The project is intended to provide a “qualitative and quantitative” assessment of the main safety hazards as well as examine whether ...
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NewsAerCap takes over from GE as partner in largest CFM engine lessor
Lessor AerCap has become the new joint-venture partner of Safran in the Irish-based engine-leasing company Shannon Engine Support, following its acquisition of US lessor GECAS. AerCap has signed a 20-year agreement covering the 50:50 venture. Chief executive Aengus Kelly describes Shannon Engine Support – the largest lessor of CFM International’s ...
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NewsJazeera claims ‘worst behind us’ after early return to profitability
Kuwaiti carrier Jazeera Airways returned to profitability in the third quarter, earlier than the airline had forecast, and managed to break even over the first nine months of the year. The airline turned in a third-quarter net profit of KD11.8 million ($39 million), after generating revenues of KD31.7 million. Chairman ...
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NewsCroatia Airlines reduces losses but still faces liquidity pressure
Croatia Airlines recorded 11% more flights over the course of the first nine months of this year, with a 20% increase in turboprop activity offsetting a slight reduction in jet operations. The carrier operated a fleet of 13 aircraft – including seven Airbus single-aisle jets and six Bombardier Q400s – ...
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NewsReshaped CargoLogicAir looks for expansion avenues after turning profitable
UK-based freight operator CargoLogicAir turned around heavy losses to post a full-year pre-tax profit of $41.2 million for 2020 – a year in which it underwent a management overhaul and a strategic review of its business. CargoLogicAir, which has ties to Russia’s Volga-Dnepr Group, generated a net profit of $45.4 ...
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NewsSmartLynx to add another pair of A321 freighters in early 2022
Wet-lease specialist SmartLynx is introducing another pair of Airbus A321 freighters to its fleet early next year, as it seeks to take its total to eight by the end of 2022. SmartLynx will receive the aircraft, both registered in Malta, through leases from Cross Ocean Partners, a financial firm whose ...
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NewsEffective scan could stop inadvertent go-around escalation: FAA
US authorities are stressing the importance of proper instrument cross-checks on Boeing 757s and 767s to prevent escalation of incidents caused by inadvertent activation of go-around mode on the types. The warning follows the fatal accident involving an Atlas Air 767 freighter on approach to Houston in February 2019, the ...