On the 7th January 2013 a fire was reported on board a Boeing 787 Dreamliner while parked at Boston’s airport in the USA. The fire was put down to a problem with one of the plane’s lithium-ion batteries. A week later an All Nippon Airways 787 Dreamliner had to make an emergency landing after smoke […]
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Azul, Brazil’s largest airline by number of cities served, commemorated its first international flight on December 2nd, landing at Fort Lauderdale/Hollywood International Airport. Fort Lauderdale, and the US itself, marks Azul’s first international route. Since its debut six years ago on December 15th, 2008, Azul has flown more than 100 million customers, changing the face
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Bombardier Commercial Aircraft extended its current ATP Agreement with FlightSafety International, for 10 years. Under the ATP Agreement, FlightSafety uses a Bombardier-approved syllabus to deliver high-quality flight and technical training to operators of Q100, Q200, Q300 and Q400 aircraft. For over 28 years, FlightSafety has been a dedicated training provider, collaborating with us to train
Bell Helicopter named Matthew J. Hasik executive vice president, Commercial Business. Hasik will lead the combined Commercial Sales and Marketing and Commercial Programs organization. Hasik succeeds Danny Maldonado, a 24-year company veteran who has been selected to be president and CEO of Textron Financial. Additionally, Barry Kohler has been named executive vice president, Customer Service
Lufthansa is resuming flights to Florida from its Munich hub. Starting December 2014, the airline will operate five flights a week to the Sunshine State in addition to its daily A380 service from Frankfurt. During the winter months, Miami will be served by LH Flight 460, which will be operated with an Airbus A330-300 in
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Avolon Holdings launched its initial public offering of 13,636,363 common shares. The initial public offering price is currently expected to be between $21 and $23 per share, which would result in a total offering size of between US$86m and US$314m. All of the common shares are being offered by the selling shareholders. The selling shareholders
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Delta reported that November traffic increase 5% compared to the previous year, while capacity increased 3.6% year over year. The load factor for November was 80.6%, up 1.2 points, compared to November 2013.
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NetJets, a Berkshire Hathaway company and the worldwide leader in private aviation, took delivery of its 50th Signature Series aircraft. This is the third Challenger 350 to enter the fleet since June – the first one was delivered on June 28th, 2014. NetJets has orders with several aircraft manufacturers for up to 670 new state-of-the-art
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The African Business Aviation Association, AfBAA, has signed a memorandum of understanding with Jet Support Services, Inc. (JSSI), the provider of hourly cost maintenance programs for the Business Aviation industry, to raise awareness of the importance of adopting best practices in aircraft maintenance. The strategic agreement, which was ratified at this year’s National Business Aviation
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Transaero’s financial results under Russian Accounting Standards for the first three quarters of 2014 saw revenue from air operations increase by 6% in comparison with the same period of 2013 and reach RUB84.8bn (US$2.4bn). The airline’s cost reduction programme adopted in 2012 has delivered savings in the first three quarters of 2014, with selling costs
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