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InterviewWorking Week: Neil Jeffers
Neil Jeffers is chief pilot with London’s Air Ambulance service. The charity operates an MD902 helicopter to delivers an advanced trauma team to critically injured people across the UK capital.
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Analysis
ANALYSIS: AgustaWestland AW189 flight test
The pilot-friendly controls, roomy cabin and innovative safety features of AgustaWestland's AW189 should put it in good stead with oil and gas producers and offshore operators. Peter Gray takes the type for a spin
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NewsSaab reveals full Gripen E design, cost savings
Saab has started fuselage assembly work on its first of three Gripen E test aircraft and revealed its detailed design for the future variant.
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NewsCzech government approves Gripen lease extension
The Czech Republic looks set to continue flying the Saab Gripen C/D until at least 2026, with its government expected to sign a lease extension deal with the Swedish Defence and Security Export Agency (FXM) in April.
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Austrian evaluates future of MRO division
Austrian Airlines is considering a potential transfer of its maintenance operations to the MRO arm of parent Lufthansa.
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Lufthansa spins off loyalty scheme
Lufthansa is reorganising its frequent-flyer programme into a standalone business division.
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Daher-Socata unveils TBM turboprop update
Daher-Socata has improved the performance and efficiency of its TBM family of fast turboprop singles with a new variant. The TBM 900, certificated and in production, retains primary airframe commonality with its predecessor TBM 850 and uses the same Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-66D powerplant but promises improved efficiency and ...
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Emirates to launch Oslo flights
Oslo will become Emirates’ third Scandinavian destination in September when the UAE carrier launches daily flights to the Norwegian capital from Dubai.
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Analysis
ANALYSIS: How Embraer is keeping faith with the regional market
Selling airliners in the regional market is a tough business. In the past 30 years, the short-haul segment has spawned and slain whole companies and aircraft. From turboprops like the BAe ATP and Saab 340/2000 to jets like the Fokker 100 and the Fairchild Dornier 728, entire aircraft programmes have ...
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Analysis
ANALYSIS: Airlines spoilt for choice for debt financings
Strong investor demand is encouraging attractive deals in both the capital and banking markets for debt financing
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Analysis
ANALYSIS: Financing the new fleet of 2014
Brendan McHenry – senior analyst, risk advisory, with Flightglobal consultancy Ascend – considers how the lessor share is changing in aircraft finance markets
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Analysis
ANALYSIS: Ascend examines the recovery in market values
George Dimitroff, head of valuations with Flightglobal advisory service Ascend, looks at how values and lease rates are faring
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Metal Master prepares Flaris LAR 1 for first flight
Polish engineering company Metal Master is readying its Flaris LAR 1 ultra-light personal jet, for its first flight in the middle of the year. The milestone, if achieved, would come around a year after the four-seat single was unveiled by the Podgorzyn-based company.
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Air Nambia broadens MRO partnership with LHT
Air Namibia has expanded its maintenance co-operation with Lufthansa Technik.
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SITA to set up industry registry for beacon technology
Air transport specialist SITA it is to set up a industry registry to help facilitate the use beacon technology after its technology research team SITA Lab issued the findings of early trials at airports.
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NewsPoland unveils Orlik MPT trainer
Poland's PZL-130 Orlik MPT (multipurpose trainer) was unveiled at Airbus Defence & Space's Warsaw facility on 7 March.
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Rhein-Neckar Air begins Mannheim-Berlin flights
German regional start-up Rhein-Neckar Air has begun flights between Mannheim and Berlin on 10 March.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Sabotage most common factor in en-route accidents
More than a third of all fatal accidents that have occurred to jet airliners while en-route are caused by some form of deliberate action. But a significant number of other factors can also come into play.
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Interpol confirms stolen passports used on MH370 flight
International crime investigation body Interpol has confirmed that one Austrian and one Italian passport used by passengers boarding the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 were on its record of stolen travel documents.