News from FlightGlobal – Page 841
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US Ex-Im Bank approves financing for Lion Air 737-900ER purchase
The US Export-Import Bank has approved $1.1 billion in financing for Indonesian airline Lion Air's purchase of Boeing 737 aircraft. Ex-Im Bank is providing...
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NewsTitan Airways adds first Airbus A320 to fleet
UK charter airline Titan Airways is adding the first Airbus A320 aircraft to its fleet, which will begin revenue service in May. The A320 aircraft...
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NewsThomson switches 787 customers to 767s
UK holiday carrier Thomson Airways is to use Boeing 767s to operate routes on which it had initially intended to deploy its first Boeing 787s. The...
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NewsBA to operate A380 to Los Angeles and Hong Kong
British Airways has revealed that Los Angeles and Hong Kong will be the first destinations for its new Airbus A380 fleet. The Oneworld carrier's first...
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CAA Fokker 50 crashes in eastern Congo: reports
A Fokker 50 turboprop aircraft operated by Compagnie Africaine d'Aviation (CAA) has crashed near the city of Goma in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC),...
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NewsMesa to use ex-Pluna CRJ900s for US Airways operation
Mesa Airlines will lease nine Bombardier CRJ900s, which were previously operated by Uruguay's Pluna, for operations at US Airways, market sources indicate. A...
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NewsAir China to order 747-8s, 737s and 777Fs
Air China is to order two Boeing 747-8s and 20 737s as well as nine 777s, eight of which will be freighters for its cargo division. The carrier has...
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Germanwings adds UK routes
Lufthansa's low-cost subsidiary Germanwings will from 31 March add two new routes from Dusseldorf to the UK for its summer schedule. The carrier will...
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NewsA330 crash probe struggles to explain premature descent
Investigators have traced the loss of an Afriqiyah Airways Airbus A330-200 at Tripoli to the aircraft's premature descent while preparing to approach runway 09.
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NewsVirgin brands UK domestic operation Little Red
Virgin Atlantic is branding its new UK domestic operation as Little Red, and will open the first routes at the end of March. The short-haul service...
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NewsUS Airways to add nine CRJ900s
US Airways has reached an agreement with Mesa Airlines to add nine Bombardier CRJ900s to its regional fleet this year. The aircraft will enter the...
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American to launch services from Dallas/Fort Worth and Miami
American Airlines will launch new nonstop services from its hubs at Dallas-Fort Worth and Miami to California and Mexico from 12 June. The Fort Worth-based...
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BA to codeshare with Cathay Pacific on kangaroo route
Cathay Pacific Airways and British Airways will launch a codeshare agreement on flights between the UK and Australia on 31 March. The deal covers BA's...
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ANA reshuffles management under new corporate structure
All Nippon Airways (ANA) president and chief executive Shinichiro Ito will take on a new role as chairman of the Japanese airline, following a restructuring...
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NewsIllusion and ambiguous control led to Afriqiyah A330 crash
Libyan investigators have determined that poor co-ordination between the pilots of an Afriqiyah Airways Airbus A330-200, spurred by sensory illusion, preceded...
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NewsJapan Airlines extends 787 suspension to end-May
Japan Airlines (JAL) has further extended the suspension of its Boeing 787 operations to 31 May, three days after a similar announcement from its peer All...
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China Eastern to launch two new services in March
China Eastern Airlines plans to launch two new services in March. It will launch a twice weekly Wenzhou-Bangkok service on 7 March, and a four times...
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Boeing to present 787 interim solution to customers
Boeing will brief the 787's customers tomorrow in Seattle on the interim fix that it has proposed for the still-undiagnosed battery problems, which have grounded the worldwide fleet since 16 January.
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US Airways to complete wi-fi expansion by June
US Airways has outfitted 263 out of the 317 aircraft it has targeted for wi-fi installations, or about 83% of that fleet. It plans to have the entire expansion...
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Sukhoi begins flight trials of upgraded Superjet 100s
Sukhoi has started flight trials of the first upgraded Superjet 100 ahead of reconfiguring its cabin interior to Aeroflot specifications. The aircraft...