With a fleet of 429 Boeing 737, Ryanair is both one of the biggest airlines in the world and a loyal customer of Boeing. However, that loyalty could be changing in a near-future, as Ryanair acquired Laudamotion, a company flying 15 A320, and planning to buy even more. Using a single model of plane is […]
France is under a massive public sector strike on March 22, 2018. Teachers, rail workers and air-traffic controllers took the streets of every major cities to express their disagreement with Emmanuel Macron’s reforms. The consequences on the skies of France are pretty massive: the Direction générale de l’Aviation civile (DGAC), French civil aviation authority, has […]
Russia’s transport agency Rostransnadzor ordered all of the country’s airlines to ground their AN-148 aircraft due to safety concerns. The order comes a month after a deadly crash of Saratov Airlines’ AN-148, which killed all 71 people on board on February 11, 2018. The decision was made after the inspection of Saratov Airlines, said Rostransnadzor chief Viktor Basargin […]
Following the grounding of 11 IndiGo Air320neos due to faulty engines, Pratt & Whitney has announced that it would deliver replacement PW1100 engines in the next 40 days. The first delivery should be made on March 28, 2018. The grounding forced IndiGo to cancel around 900 flights in March, 2018, which represents 3% of its […]
Airbus is reportedly considering building a freighter version of its A330neo wide-body jet, after receiving requests from potential customers Amazon.com and United Parcel Service (UPS), people familiar with the matter told Bloomberg. The new freighter would compete with Boeing’s popular 767-300 in the global air cargo market which has been recovering from a decade-long slump. Airbus decision […]
Senior executives from British all-cargo airline, CargoLogicAir (CLA), have met with Aviation Minister Baroness Sugg to emphasise the airline’s commitment to supporting the UK’s forward-looking position on aviation. The Minister took time to meet with CLA’s CEO, David Kerr, Chief Commercial Officer, Steve Harvey, Technical Director, John Nicholas, and Pamela Rablin, Head of HR, during […]
Qatar Airways is set to report a large loss for the current financial year ending later this month, the Doha-based carrier’s CEO Akbar Al Baker confirmed on March 7, 2018. The carrier remains defiant as it faces a blockade placed on Qatar by its Middle Eastern neighbors by announcing new flights to numerous destinations across […]
Britain will, for the first time, provide financial support for exports of Bombardier’s CSeries passenger jets to a major Asian airline, weeks after the Canadian plane maker won a trade dispute against its U.S. rival Boeing. The decision, experts say, signifies a power shift in the aerospace industry and is a fresh blow to Boeing […]
Authorities managed to salvage both the flight data recorder and the cockpit voice recorder from the US-Bangla flight that crashed in Kathmandu airport on March 12, 2018. The plane was a 17 years old Bombardier Dash 8 Q400 coming from Dacca to Kathmandu. 40 people died in the crash and nine after being transported to […]
Turkish Airlines has confirmed plans to buy 50 firm and 10 optional wide-body aircraft from Airbus and Boeing for its ever-growing fleet ahead of a move to a new Istanbul airport. The Airbus aircraft will be powered by Rolls-Royce Trent XWB engines. In a statement on March 9, 2018, Turkish Airlines said it had agreed […]
