Having filed for bankruptcy on February 5, German leisure airline Germania has shut down permanently after it failed to find any investors. The closure of the carrier which operated a fleet of 37 aircraft will now see all 1,700 employees laid off. The news will not be welcomed at Airbus either as this will result […]
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Panasonic Avionics has named Malcolm McKay Vice President of Sales. McKay will be responsible for accelerating and driving top-line annual growth for Panasonic Avionics and will develop and plan the company’s worldwide sales processes and methodologies. He will oversee Sales Leaders over each product line including Digital Solutions, Software as a Service (SaaS), Panasonic Technical Services
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Gatwick has signed a framework contract on March 26, 2019, with Stanley Robotics and it will be the first UK airport to trial robots that valet park passengers’ cars. The trial will run from the second half of 2019 to early 2020 and passengers will simply leave their car in a well-lit, spacious ‘parking station’
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Southwest Airlines has reported that the Company’s Material Specialists, represented by the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT), have voted in favor of a new, five-year contract. “With this new agreement, our Material Specialists will be rewarded with pay increases throughout the next five years, while the Company gains efficiencies across our operation,” said Vice President
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The Border Service of the Republic of Kazakhstan has signed a firm order for one C295 medium transport aircraft. Through this new agreement, which includes training, spares and ground support equipment, the overall C295 fleet operating in Kazakhstan will increase to nine aircraft. The new C295, in transport configuration, will play a vital role in border
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JetBlue is advancing the boarding process at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK) with SelfPass™ — a biometric facial scanning process implemented by Collins Aerospace, in cooperation with U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP). Passengers using SelfPass, with fully integrated self-boarding gates, may board international flights through one gate in Terminal 5 and
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GA Telesis has appointed Priscilla Ang as Director of Business Development for the Asia-Pacific Region. Priscilla brings over 20 years of experience in the aviation sector to the GA Telesis Asset Transaction Group. Ang was most recently a member of the Titan Singapore Aircraft Leasing team, where she served from 2014 through 2018 as Manager,
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Embraer has delivered the 500th Phenom 300 series business jet. According to General Aviation Manufacturers Association (GAMA) reports, the Phenom 300 is the only business jet model to reach this milestone in the last 10 years. The milestone aircraft delivered March 25, is the Phenom 300E (E for Enhanced), the newest edition of the popular light
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AerSale® has signed a contract with AeroAir/Erickson Aero Tanker to build another firefighting air tanker for the company’s fleet at AerSale’s MRO facility in Goodyear, Arizona. Conversion of the 6th MD-87 aircraft, formally begins on April 1 and will mark the sixth such aircraft modification AerSale has completed at Goodyear. Once the modification is complete,
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Air navigation services provider Airways New Zealand and global science and technology provider Leidos have agreed to work closely together on future air traffic management (ATM) opportunities under an agreement recently signed in Washington. The two organisations have already been working together on the design and build of the SkyLine-X air traffic management system, a
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