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Investigators probe Shannon air traffic system glitch
Irish investigators are probing a technical problem which affected airspace management in the Shannon air traffic control system, forcing restrictions on traffic flow.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Why engine shop TS&S sees its role as OEM partner
Middle Eastern engine shop Turbine Services & Solutions has a unique position in the MRO sector.
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Airbus points to lower-weight variant of BelugaXL
Airbus technical data on the new BelugaXL logistics transport shows that the aircraft is being developed with two weight variants.
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A321neo certified for long-range modifications
Airbus’s A321neo has been certified to operate with three additional centre fuel tanks, enabling it to conduct long-range operations.
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Primera collapses before realising transatlantic ambitions
Leisure carrier Primera Air succumbed to financial pressure just a few months after the operator embarked on an ambitious expansion on transatlantic routes.
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Struggling Primera Air to cease operations
Northern European carrier Primera Air is to cease operations within the next few hours, after failing to secure financing to maintain services.
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Air China picks LHT and local partner for A350 component support
China Aviation Supplies (CASC) and Lufthansa Technik have been jointly engaged to provide component maintenance for Air China's Airbus A350 fleet.
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OpinionOPINION: Lack of women pilots exposes industry failing
When Qatar Airways chief Akbar Al Baker earlier this year made his ill-chosen, off-the-cuff remarks about the inability of women to run airlines, he did the industry a favour in that his comment highlighted – albeit rather uncomfortably – a huge gender gap that extends from the boardroom to the ...
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Lufthansa firms options on 27 A320neo-family jets
Lufthansa Group has converted options on 24 Airbus A320neos and three A321neos into firm orders for delivery in 2023-4.
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Monarch Airlines administration period extended
Collapsed UK carrier Monarch Airlines is to remain under administration for another two years, following an application for extension.
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Airbus adds AIM Altitude to A320 cabin SFE list
Airbus has selected UK interior equipment manufacturer AIM Altitude as galley and stowage supplier for A320-family aircraft.
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EasyJet full-year profit to meet upper end of forecast
EasyJet is forecasting a full-year pre-tax profit of £570-580 million ($745-758 million), following a strong fourth quarter, up on the previous year's figure of £408 million.
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Moody's warns of airline credit risk in event of no-deal Brexit
Ratings agency Moody's has warned that the UK's withdrawal from the European Union without a deal would be a "significantly credit-negative" event for European airlines.
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A330-900 approval comes 50 months after launch
Airbus is preparing to deliver the first A330-900 to launch operator TAP Air Portugal, after belatedly securing European certification for the first member of its re-engined A330 family.
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Air Baltic hands Q400 MRO work to Jazz
Air Baltic has handed heavy maintenance work on its Bombardier Q400 fleet to Chorus Aviation’s Jazz Technical Services.
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PICTURES: Airbus tracks to 'cross-fleet' Airspace cabin roll-out
Airbus's goal of bringing its new Airspace cabin to all its aircraft models is coming closer to reality.
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EASA certifies A330-900
Airbus has secured European certification for its A330-900, the larger member of the re-engined A330neo family.
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Cardiff Aviation seeks investment to turn around MRO business
When UK rock singer and aviation buff Bruce Dickinson established in 2012 a maintenance operation in a decommissioned Royal Air Force hangar in the Welsh town of St Athan, a few miles west of Cardiff airport, he envisaged that the site would become a central column in a business spanning ...
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EASA crew test-flies MC-21 ahead of certification bid
European Aviation Safety Agency test pilots have conducted preliminary examination flights of the Irkut MC-21-300.
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Pobeda forced to drop Kaliningrad-London plan
Russian low-cost carrier Pobeda is to proceed with opening a London link from St Petersburg next month, but it appears to have abandoned plans to serve the UK from Kaliningrad over a personal-data hitch.