United Airlines is retiring its ageing Boeing 727-200 fleet early due to increased fuel and labour costs. This year 25 aircraft are to go, about 12 months earlier than planned. United is taking up its options for 13 Airbus A319s and A320s to replace the noisy, inefficient trijets. Its remaining 727s will go by the end of 2003. The early retirements will slow capacity growth, with only a 2.5-3% increase expected next year.
Source: Flight International
Search personnel have retrieved at least one flight recorder from the Azerbaijan Airlines Embraer 190 which crashed near Aktau airport on 25 December. Kazakhstan’s emergency situations ministry confirms 38 fatalities from the accident, with a further 29 occupants transferred to hospitals in Aktau. It states that recovery teams have “found ...
Azerbaijan Airlines is suspending services on the southern Russian routes to Grozny and Makhachkala until the inquiry into the loss of an Embraer 190 concludes. The aircraft crashed on 25 December while attempting an approach to Aktau airport in Kazakhstan, having diverted from Grozny. While the reason for the diversion ...
Azerbaijan’s government indicates that 32 occupants of an Azerbaijan Airlines Embraer 190 survived after the aircraft crashed near Aktau, Kazakhstan, having diverted while en route to Grozny. The foreign affairs ministry of Azerbaijan says some of the survivors are in critical condition. Azerbaijan Airlines states that 62 passengers and five ...
