ATP Flight School and United Airlines have partnered to provide aspiring airline pilots with outstanding training and a direct route to a United flight deck. United and ATP’s Aviate partnership is an innovative career development program that combines ATP’s accelerated fixed-cost pilot training with defined milestones to advance pilots toward a rewarding career with United. […]
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Through a public tender, Magnetic MRO, a Total Technical Care and asset management organization, acquired four Boeing 737 Classic aircraft from airBaltic. Following the delivery from Latvia’s flag carrier, all aircraft will continue their service in the fleets of new owners. Being the launch operator of Airbus A220 aircraft, airBaltic operates a fleet of 36
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Aircraft and asset specialist, Vallair, has seen its prototype A321P2F (MSN835) aircraft take off in Singapore. The inaugural flight forms part of the certification process to reach conversion approval status. Vallair has placed this first A321P2F (Passenger to Freighter) aircraft conversion with Qantas, the first airline to operate the A321 as a freighter aircraft. The
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Panasonic Avionics (Panasonic) will be providing inflight entertainment (IFE) for Kuwait Airways’ new fleet of eight Airbus A330-800neo aircraft. Kuwait Airways will become the first airline to operate the A330-800neo aircraft, starting in the second quarter of 2020 when it joins the airline’s existing fleet of Airbus A320 and Boeing 777-300ER aircraft, which are already
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IATA, the International Air Transport Association, has released full-year 2019 data for global air freight markets showing that demand, measured in freight ton kilometers (FTKs), fell by 3.3% compared to 2018 while capacity (AFTK) rose by 2.1%. This was the first year of declining freight volumes since 2012, and the weakest performance since the global
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AeroCentury , an independent aircraft leasing company, has announced three recent sales of turboprop aircraft In December 2019, the company sold a Dash 8-300 (MSN 236) that had been on lease to Widerøe’s Flyveselskap in Norway for 15 years. Widerøe is the largest regional operator serving the Nordic region, utilizing over 40 Dash 8 aircraft.
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Karlheinz Weimar, Fraport AG’s chairman of the supervisory board, will retire from his position as chairman and board member at the end of the company’s next Annual General Meeting on May 26, 2020. The former finance minister of the State of Hesse cited his 70th birthday, which he celebrated on January 30, as the reason
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StandardAero has completed its 3,000th workscope on the GE Aviation CF34 turbofan engine, which is widely used on regional jet airliners around the world. StandardAero was first appointed as a GE Aviation Authorized Service Provider (ASP) for the CF34-3 and CF34-8 in 2001. The milestone 3,000th engine workscope shipped was a CF34-8C5B1 powering a CRJ700
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