All articles by David Kaminski-Morrow – Page 6
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Investment plan fails to save Germany’s FTI Touristik from insolvency
German tourism firm FTI Touristik is blaming a fall in booking figures and a liquidity squeeze for its decision to file for insolvency.
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Emirates prepares to train initial A350 pilots with tailored competency-based scheme
Middle Eastern carrier Emirates is preparing for Airbus A350 operations with an enhanced jointly-developed pilot-training programme which takes advantage of IATA principles and Airbus experience.
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Frankfurt Hahn’s new operator flags steadily-increasing activity
One year after rescuing Frankfurt Hahn airport from insolvency administration, new owner Triwo is highlighting the gradual expansion of its customer airline network.
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Virgin entering codeshares with future SkyTeam member SAS plus El Al and Saudia
SkyTeam carrier Virgin Atlantic has identified the alliance’s newly-recruited Scandinavian operator SAS as a new codeshare partner, and has unveiled codeshares with Middle Eastern airlines El Al and Saudia.
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KrasAvia An-26 overruns at northern Russian island airport
Siberian investigators are probing an overrun involving an Antonov An-26 operated by Russian regional carrier KrasAvia. The aircraft had been conducting a charter flight from Norilsk, says the West Siberian transport prosecutor’s office. It landed at Dikson airport, on an island in the far north of the Krasnoyarsk region, at ...
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Dual hydraulic system failure preceded Fly Jamaica 757 overrun at Georgetown
Guyanese investigators have disclosed that a Fly Jamaica Boeing 757-200 suffered significant hydraulic failure as it returned to Georgetown’s Cheddi Jagan airport, with the subsequent loss of braking effectiveness causing the twinjet to overrun and sustain severe damage.
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PIA awaits restoration of EASA approval as Pakistani regulator shows safety progress
Pakistan International Airlines is still waiting for European regulators to restore its third-country operator approval, although the Pakistan Civil Aviation Authority is progressing with safety-oversight improvements.
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Fatal Schiphol incident victim deliberately entered KLM E190 engine: investigators
Dutch military police investigators have determined that a person killed by an aircraft engine at Amsterdam Schiphol had entered the powerplant deliberately. The man was fatally injured on 29 May after the aircraft, a KLM Cityhopper Embraer 190, had just completed its pushback procedure and was preparing to taxi for ...
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European regulators maintain safety-oversight pressure on Egyptian authority
Egyptian safety oversight capabilities are being kept under scrutiny by the European Commission, although it has not moved to blacklist any of the country’s carriers. The Commission states, in a 30 May blacklist update, that it held a technical meeting with Egyptian Civil Aviation Authority representatives in mid-April as part ...
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TUI 737 overflew road at low height during take-off with insufficient thrust
UK investigators have disclosed that a Boeing 737-800 crew manually selected insufficient thrust after the autothrottle disengaged during take-off from Bristol, resulting in the jet’s belatedly becoming airborne and overflying a major road at less than 100ft.
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Israir Group outlines plan to acquire remainder of MRO firm Bird Aviation
Israeli leisure operator Israir Group has outlined plans to acquire the remaining shares of Cypriot-based maintenance company Bird Aviation. The group took a 50% shareholding in Bird Aviation early last year. Israir Group, in parallel with a first-quarter results disclosure, says its board has reached an agreement in principle to ...
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Belarusian flag-carrier Belavia fails to convince EU court to lift flight ban
Belarusian flag-carrier Belavia has failed to convince the European General Court to lift restrictions on the carrier, imposed after the airline was accused of aiding illegal migration to the EU for political purposes.
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Currency effects mask SAS’s improved half-year performance
Scandinavian carrier SAS’s first-half pre-tax losses have deepened by 7% to SKr4.1 billion ($384 million), which the company attributes to currency effects.
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Malaysia Airlines reveals first A330neo undergoing final assembly
Malaysia Airlines has shown off its first Airbus A330neo, undergoing final assembly at the airframer’s Toulouse manufacturing line. The carrier’s initial A330-900 is due to be delivered in the third quarter of this year. Malaysia Airlines disclosed in 2022 that it would modernise its fleet with the twinjets, which are ...
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KLM aircraft involved in fatal engine ingestion accident at Amsterdam
KLM has confirmed a fatal accident at Amsterdam Schiphol in which a person was injured by an operating aircraft engine. The 29 May occurrence involved its flight KL1341 which was preparing to depart for Billund in Denmark. KLM operates the flight with an Embraer 190 regional jet. The carrier says ...
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El Al backtracks on tourism venture as Gaza conflict persists
Israeli flag-carrier El Al has temporarily halted plans to establish a joint tourism company, owing to circumstances including the Gaza conflict. The airline had disclosed last year that it was entering a pact with travel company Issta to establish a tourism and holiday joint venture. But El Al states, in ...
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Effects of conflict behind unusually-strong El Al first-quarter performance
Israeli flag-carrier El Al believes traffic changes arising from the Gaza conflict have resulted in uncharacteristic winter demand for its services, and a unusually strong first-quarter performance.
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Jointly-produced LMS-192 twin-turboprop features in latest Russian civil aviation forecast
Russia’s latest civil aircraft manufacturing forecast features a new twin-turboprop type, which will be produced under a joint agreement with the Belarusian aerospace industry.
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Russia trims 2030 civil aircraft forecast as schedules slip and mix changes
Russia’s government has reduced its forecast for the number of commercial aircraft its aerospace industry will produce by the end of the decade.
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Russian-powered MC-21 embarks on automatic landing tests
Russia’s domestically-powered Yakovlev MC-21-310 is conducting a series of automatic landing tests as part of its certification programme. Prototype 73051 carried out the landings, under ICAO Category IIIa conditions, at Moscow Zhukovsky airport, with a crew of four. Category IIIa landings enable approaches to a runway with 200m visual range ...