As of January 3, Stockholm’s Arlanda Airport has fuel bunkers filled with an approximate 10% biofuel converted from used cooking oil, which has been mixed with standard jet kerosene. An SAS Scandinavian Airlines Airbus A320neo was the first aircraft to use the new fuel for its flight to Los Angeles that day. This means that […]
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Norwegian reported December capacity growth of 29% compared to December 2015, while traffic was up 31%. The load factor was 84.6%, an increase of 1.3 points compared to the same period on 2015.
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Travel Service, the Czech airline company that operates scheduled flights under the SmartWings brand, has finalized an order for five 737 8 MAX airplanes with Boeing, valued at US$550m at current list prices. Travel Service previously placed an order for three 737 MAXs at the Paris Air Show in 2013 and currently operates a mixed
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C&L continues its global expansion with the hire of Juraj Pikna, who will be based in Prague, Czech Republic, and will cover the European, Russian and African markets. Pikna comes to C&L with a wide range of training in the aviation industry – air traffic control, MRO for regional and commercial aircraft, sales and support
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Finnair extends the lease of an Airbus A330 aircraft and crew from Iberia for its Miami route until May 1, 2017. Finnair previously announced that the Miami route would be operated by Iberia from January 10 to January 31, 2017. Finnair flies to Miami three times a week. From January 10 to January 31, the
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Jeppesen has signed a five-year service agreement with LOT Polish Airlines, the flagship carrier of Poland, to provide digital charting for LOT’s electronic flight bag (EFB) platform. LOT will incorporate Jeppesen FliteDeck Pro on Windows tablets as its charting EFB solution and will continue to use Jeppesen NavData for digital navigation, through the agreement. The
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Lion Air Group airlines, Malindo Air and Wings Air, have taken delivery of three new ATR72-600 aircraft on operating lease from Singapore-based lessor, Transportation Partners. All three aircraft were delivered in the last quarter of 2016 and were financed by DVB Bank SE Singapore Branch (DVB). DVB acted as the sole Arranger, Agent and Underwriter
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Avtrade reported the opening of a new office based in Guangzhou, China. The decision to move China operations into larger offices is the next step in a long term growth plan for Avtrade’s presence in the region. Building on Avtrade’s successful historical relationships in the region, which have enabled a continued period of targeted and
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Dion Garner has joined the team of Werner Aero Services. He will be focused on expanding the company’s current business in Asia Pacific with increased emphasis on the growing APU business. Dion joins Werner Aero Services with over 30 years experience in the aerospace industry; much of it spent in the Asia Pacific market. He
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BOC Aviation announced the delivery of its 250th aircraft from Airbus. The aircraft is an A330-300 delivered to Air China, the fifth of the five widebody aircraft leased to the Chinese airline under a purchase-and leaseback arrangement first announced on 3 October 2016.
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