February 6, 2020

Boeing and U.S. Navy successfully link piloted, unmanned Growlers

Boeing and the U.S. Navy successfully flew two autonomously controlled EA-18G Growlers at Naval Air Station Patuxent River as unmanned air systems using a third Growler as a mission controller for the other two. The flights, conducted during the Navy Warfare Development Command’s annual fleet experiment (FLEX) exercises, proved the effectiveness of technology allowing F/A-18 […]

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Norwegian reports higher unit revenue and higher load factor

Traffic

Norwegian’s traffic for January was down 24%, while capacity decreased 29% when compared to the previous year. Norwegian carried 1,974,606 customers in January. The planned capacity reduction and optimization of the route network continued to impact the figures positively. The punctuality for January was 87% and the load factor was 81%, up 4.8 points.

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Spirit Airlines posts fourth quarter net income of US$81.2 million

Financial

For the fourth quarter 2019, Spirit’s total operating revenue was US$969.8 million, an increase of 12.4% compared to the fourth quarter 2018, driven by an 18.6% increase in flight volume. Fourth quarter 2019 revenue includes approximately US$7.2 million of out-of-period revenue related to the reclamation of over-remitted Federal Excise Tax. Total operating revenue per available

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Héroux-Devtek reports fiscal 2020 third quarter financial results

Financial

Héroux-Devtek has reported that consolidated sales grew 8.8% to CA$157.3 million, up from CA$144.5 million last year, including a 1.4% organic growth and a contribution of CA$10.8 million by the Corporation’s recent acquisitions. Commercial sales grew 11.8% from CA$65.5 million to CA$73.2 million, while defence sales were up 6.3%, from CA$79.0 million to CA$84.1 million.

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Bombardier to expand London Biggin Hill service centre

MRO & Production

Bombardier has announced that it will expand its London Biggin Hill service centre with the construction of a new and larger facility nearing 250,000 ft² (approximately 23,225 m² ) to replace its existing hangars. Scheduled to be operational by mid-2022, the new service centre will provide customers in the region with extended maintenance support and

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Coronavirus outbreak forces Airbus to close China completion center

MRO & Production, Top Stories

Airbus has announced that it has closed its completion center for the single-aisle A320 and larger A330 aircraft. The facility is located at Tianjin, 150 km from Beijing. “China domestic and worldwide travel restrictions are posing some logistical challenges. The Tianjin Final Assembly Line facility is currently closed,” the European planemaker said in a statement,

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Government-funded research project, Medifly, conducted test flights over Hamburg

Other News, Top Stories

The joint research project Medifly, funded by the German Federal Ministry for Transportation and Digital Infrastructure (BMVI), successfully demonstrated the use of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) for acute transportation of medical samples. A total of six drone flights were conducted between the German Armed Forces Hospital in Wandsbek-Gartenstadt and Saint Mary’s Hospital in Hohenfelde, roughly

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Three dead as Pegasus Airlines 737 crashes in Istanbul, Turkey

Other News

Three passengers onboard a Pegasus Airlines Boeing 737-86J which crashed after landing in atrocious conditions at Istanbul’s Sabiha Gökçen Airport have been killed. According to reports, the plane skidded for 50-60 meters beyond the end of the runway and then broke into three main sections as the topography dropped 30-40 meters. There were 183 passengers

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Ryanair Group traffic grows 5% in January