Last year more than three billion people traveled by airplane. Despite a series of tragic incidents, including the downing of Malaysia Airlines flight 17 over the Ukraine, the disappearance without trace of Malaysia Airlines flight 370 and the most recent crash involving Indonesia AirAsia flight QZ850, it is hard to argue against the overall level […]
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David Settergren has joined the AerSale team as Vice President – Sales, Asia Pacific to grow the Company’s global aviation marketing efforts in the Asia Pacific Region. Settergren’s appointment will further enhance AerSale’s global reach within the aviation industry. David most recently served as Vice President – Sales & Marketing with GE Capital Aviation Services
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Oman Air has launched an efficiency programme, entitled Shape and Size, with the aim of achieving substantial reductions in the airline’s expenditure. The move is timed to coincide with the start of 2015 and the onset of new budgets for the year. The Shape and Size efficiency programme is targeting cost reductions across all activities
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The Lufthansa Group has made a successful start to the new year with the transfer of the Düsseldorf–Zurich route from Lufthansa to Germanwings on Thursday, January 8th, 2015). One of the biggest structural projects ever undertaken by the company has thus been successfully completed on time. The concept of the new Germanwings was presented in
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Finmeccanica-AgustaWestland, announced that, following an agreement signed on 29th December, it will provide 160 AW189 civil helicopters to the oil company Rosneft by 2025. The supply will be provided mainly through HeliVert, a joint venture between Finmeccanica-AgustaWestland and Russian Helicopters (a subsidiary of the corporation Rostec). HeliVert will be responsible for the final assembly (at
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Boeing and Azerbaijan-based airline Silk Way West announced that the two companies are finalizing terms and working toward a purchase agreement for three 747-8 Freighter airplanes. When finalized, the contract will be valued at more than US$1.1bn at current list prices. The order will be posted on Boeing’s Orders & Deliveries website once all contingencies
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Republic Airways reported preliminary passenger traffic results for December 2014. Traffic increased 3.0% over the same period in 2013, on an 8% increase in capacity. The load factor decreased 4 points from the same period in 2013.
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Air Lease Corporation announced the pricing of its public offering of US$600m in aggregate principal amount of 3.750% unsecured senior notes due 2022 (the “Notes”). The Notes were offered to the public at a price of 99.289% of par. The sale of the Notes is expected to close on January 14th, 2015, subject to satisfaction
Thomas Global Systems confirmed its long-term support for the FCD-66 cathode ray tube (CRT) based cockpit display used on the Airbus A319/320/321 and A330/340 aircraft. The FCD-66 is the primary cockpit flight display in these aircraft. The company’s long-term support program for FCD-66 is underpinned by its secure supply of new CRTs and its long
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GE Aviation has been selected by Guangzhou Hangxin Company/AVICopter to provide the Health & Usage Monitoring System (HUMS) for their AC313 helicopter fleet in China. The fleet of civilian AC313 helicopters is designed to carry 27 passengers and two crew in the transport role. It also has been designed to be used for VIP transport,
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