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Paid contentINSIGHT FROM AMADEUS: Airline disruption - soon to be a problem of the past?
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News
SR Technics opens training campus in Abu Dhabi
Swiss maintenance specialist SR Technics has opened a training centre in Abu Dhabi.
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UTair broadens MRO pact with Volga-Dnepr Gulf
Russian carrier UTair has selected Volga-Dnepr Gulf to provide heavy maintenance for a batch of Boeing 737s.
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Interview
INTERVIEW: Tony Balestracci - servicing Textron's customers
Tony Balestracci is vice-president, global customer service with Textron Aviation, owner of the venerable Cessna and Beechcraft brands
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FLIGHT TEST: We put Bombardier's CSeries through its paces
In the 1960s, established manufacturers Boeing and Douglas dominated the lower end of the single-aisle mainline commercial aircraft market. Their original offerings – the 737-100 and DC-9-10 – seated fewer than 100 passengers. With the fielding of the 737-200 and DC-9-40, capacity increased to more than 120 passengers. This trend ...
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Emirates phases out its last A330 and A340
Emirates has retired the last of its Airbus A330 and A340 aircraft, leaving its fleet entirely composed of A380s and Boeing 777s.
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Paid contentINSIGHT FROM FLIGHTGLOBAL: Conversions dominate soft cargo market
Chris Seymour, head of market analysis at Flight Ascend Consultancy, examines cargo’s mixed fortunes as yields fall, and looks ahead in a 20-year aircraft delivery forecast
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Paid contentINSIGHT FROM FLIGHTGLOBAL: Flight Fleet Forecast's single-aisle outlook 2016-2035
The 2016 Flight Fleet Forecast predicts the delivery of 42,800 new passenger and freight commercial aircraft over the next 20 years, worth almost $3 trillion in 2016 delivery values. About 63% of those deliveries – some 26,860 units – are expected to be single-aisle passenger aircraft, representing 46% of the ...
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INSIGHT FROM INMARSAT: Going Global with GX for Aviation
10 cities visited across four continents and 80,128km travelled – how the GX Aviation Tour showcased aviation’s connected future
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Analysis
ANALYSIS: Trump win likely to fuel simmering airline disputes
US opponents of three Gulf carriers and Norwegian are hoping to find a sympathetic audience in President-elect Donald Trump, casting uncertainty over how a new administration will treat several hot button issues that have divided the airline industry.
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News
Fed-up Emirates presses for Dubai drone detectors
Emirates is urging Dubai International’s operator to consider drone detectors after an airspace intrusion led to a third closure of the hub in the space of around four months.
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Paid contentINSIGHT FROM FLIGHTGLOBAL: Flight Fleet Forecast's engine outlook
The 2016 Flight Fleet Forecast predicts the delivery of 42,800 new commercial passenger and freighter aircraft over the next 20 years. This drives a market for 86,500 installed engine deliveries, with the fleet in service growing from just over 60,000 engines today to 103,000 in 2035. The aerospace market is ...
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Paid contentINSIGHT FROM FLIGHTGLOBAL: Flight Ascend Consultancy Business jet webinar
Ahead of the NBAA event now under way in Orlando, Florida, analysts at Flight Ascend Consultancy held their regular pre-show webinar, using their extensive data and valuations expertise to assess the state of the business aviation market, both in terms of new deliveries and residuals.
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NBAA: Business jet output still struggling – Flight Ascend
Anyone anticipating a return to the halcyon days of the mid-2000s for business aviation may face a long wait. Analysis of annual jet deliveries shows the market may have hit a new normal, hovering around the 700 mark for the past six years and staying stuck at 720 or so ...
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Analysis
ANALYSIS: Military simulator market grows 3% year-on-year
There are currently just over 2,300 military aircraft simulation devices in operation globally, according to the latest data from FlightGlobal. This figure represents a 3% increase on the total for the same period in 2015.
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News
End to ECA freeze would be in 'mutual interest': Airbus
Lifting the current suspension of export credit agency-guaranteed financing for Airbus jets would be in the "mutual interest" of both the manufacturer and the government agencies, Airbus Group finance chief Harald Wilhelm argued during the manufacturer's third-quarter results call today.
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Paid contentINSIGHT FROM AEROPROFESSIONAL: Airlines need to fund pilot training
It’s time to address the elephant in the room. We’ve got a pilot skills shortage on our hands, and it isn’t going anywhere. In fact, if it’s not addressed now, it will only get progressively worse.
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Paid contentINSIGHT FROM FLIGHTGLOBAL: A320neo and 737 Max market outlook
Conceived when oil prices were high, the fuel-efficiency selling point of the A320neo and 737 Max seems less critical today, but customers appear undeterred, says Flight Ascend Consultancy chief Rob Morris
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PICTURE: Kuwait Airways unveils new livery on 777-300ER
Kuwait Airways has unveiled a modernised livery on the Gulf carrier’s first Boeing 777-300ER.
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Opinion
OPINION: Fear makes the market in aviation finance
When UK member of parliament Jo Cox was killed in her constituency on 16 June, the market reaction was immediate. The British pound and the euro rallied after weeks of poor trading amid Brexit uncertainty, while the previously attractive safe haven investments such as gold and government bonds were sold ...