All Europe articles – Page 495
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News
EBACE: Payment platform PayNode set for European launch
PayNode – the business aviation payment platform unveiled at NBAA in Orlando by the company behind the Avinode online charter marketplace – is to launch in Europe.
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Analysis
ANALYSIS: Saab counts down to Gripen E debut
Saab is counting down to performing the first flight of its Gripen E combat aircraft before the end of June, as it also strives to finalise a slew of potential new sales of the earlier C/D version in Europe and Africa.
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EBACE: Will Europe's emissions exemption last beyond 2021?
Business aviation operators from outside the European Union will continue to be exempted from the EU emissions trading system (ETS) for international flights to and from the trading bloc – at least until 2021, when ICAO’s new global carbon offsetting scheme for aviation is scheduled to take effect.
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EBACE: Rivals for power in the business aviation engine market
In a business aircraft market that has seen a spate of new programmes, they are the power behind the flown: the industry’s five main turbojet manufacturers have been busy of late.
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Bombardier opens first wholly-owned UK service centre
Bombardier opened its first wholly owned service centre in the UK on 18 May, with London Biggin Hill airport home to the new operation. The facility is also Bombardier's first fully owned base in Europe to offer tip-to-tail maintenance on its Global, Challenger and Learjet business jet families. It complements ...
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EASA to demand go-around risk mitigation for certification
Europe's certification authority is aiming to introduce requirements to reduce loss-of-control risks during go-around, with particular attention on the problem of somatogravic illusion.
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PICTURES: Air Baltic deploys CS300 on Moscow route
Latvia's Air Baltic has started deploying the Bombardier CS300 for flights to Moscow.
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EBACE: Comlux delivers first EASA-certificated Sukhoi Business Jet
Comlux has delivered the first EASA-certificated VIP cabin completion on a Sukhoi Business Jet, and is preparing for the imminent entry into service of its largest aircraft – a VIP-configured Boeing 777-200LR that it will operate on behalf of an upmarket tour company.
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EBACE: GainJet to base new medevac operation at Stansted
Greek VIP charter operator and management company GainJet is basing a new medevac operation at London Stansted, using a Bombardier Challenger 604 registered under its Irish subsidiary’s air operator’s certificate.
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OpinionOPINION: Can airframers beat supply chain vulnerability?
Like a game of industrial Whac-a-Mole, Airbus and Boeing have conquered one embarrassing behaviour – long-delayed new product introductions – just as customers grow increasingly nervous about another emerging problem: supply chain breakdowns.
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London City air traffic control to transfer to remote tower
London City airport is to become the first site in the UK to have its air traffic control service transferred to a remote tower.
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TaxiBot gains A320 certification
European regulators have certificated Israel Aerospace Industries' pilot-controlled aircraft tow tractor TaxiBot for deployment on Airbus A320-family jets.
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EU and US reach no conclusion on electronics ban
European and US regulators have decided to meet again later this month to discuss a potential expansion of a controversial ban on personal electronic devices in the cabin of flights from Middle Eastern and North African countries.
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EBACE: Business aviation manufacturers face another difficult year says Flight Ascend Consultancy
Business aircraft manufacturers are enduring another torrid year, with deliveries likely to fall again, backlogs tighter than in the wake of the global financial crisis, and continuing fierce competition as an increasing number of aircraft types vie for sales.
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EBACE: Connectivity competition tightens in business aviation market
Competition between in-flight connectivity providers to the business aviation market is intensifying, as incumbents and newcomers jostle to put across the message that they are best-placed to meet rapidly growing demand for these services.
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Interview
INTERVIEW: Brian Humphries, President of the European Business Aviation Association
Brian Humphries, president of the European Business Aviation Association, has been fighting the industry's corner for more than two decades
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IATA warns EU and US authorities on electronics ban expansion
Airline association IATA has called on the European Commission and US government to adopt additional airport safety measures rather than to expand the White House's current, controversial ban of personal electronic devices on flights from Middle Eastern and North African countries.
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PICTURE: Inquiry details turmoil in wake-hit Challenger
Investigators had no cockpit-voice information, and only limited flight-data recordings, from the Bombardier Challenger 604 involved in an in-flight upset, apparently triggered by wake from an Emirates Airbus A380.
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LHT opens repair shop at Dubai World Central
Lufthansa Technik has formally opened a component repair facility near Dubai's Al Maktoum International airport.
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A380 wake upset inquiry: Offset not permitted on route
German investigators have disclosed that lateral offset procedures were not apparently permitted on the airway being flown by an Airbus A380 and a Bombardier Challenger business jet involved in a serious wake-turbulence upset over the Arabian Sea.