Advanced Technologies Group (ATG) says that the 15t payload SkyCat15 hybrid airship is on track to fly by the end of next year and enter service early in 2002. World Airships placed the first order, which will use the craft for humanitarian aid distribution. A larger, 200t payload SkyCat 200 will fly within 3 years.
Source: Flight International
Major US carrier Delta Air Lines continues experiencing major network disruptions related to the global technology outage that caused thousands of flight cancellations on the “busiest travel weekend of the summer”.
US airlines are working to get their operations back into gear after a global computer outage forced some carriers to halt all departures overnight.
Virgin Atlantic will drop its Shanghai service this winter after 25 years as it further cuts its Asia-Pacific network amid the longer flying times necessitated by not being able to overfly Russia.
