Heike Tamm

Fly Leasing’s acquisition of major aircraft portfolio approved by AirAsia shareholders

Fly Leasing, a global leader in aircraft leasing, has announced that all agreements relating to FLY’s acquisition of 55 Airbus narrow-body aircraft and seven CFM engines on operating lease, and the option to purchase an additional 20 Airbus A320neo family aircraft, were approved by the shareholders of AirAsia Group Berhad (“AirAsia”) at their extraordinary general […]

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Avantto and Air BP collaborate in carbon offsetting program for business aviation

Avantto Aircraft Administration, in collaboration with Air BP, has announced a pioneering program in Brazil to offset carbon emissions in the business aviation sector. The carbon emissions related to the use of all of the aviation fuel supplied by Air BP to Avantto for the next 12 months will be offset via BP Target Neutral,

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Air France-KLM, Delta Air Lines and Virgin Atlantic sign definitive agreements to strengthen trans-Atlantic partnership

Air France-KLM, Delta Air Lines and Virgin Atlantic Limited have signed definitive agreements paving the way forward for their expanded trans-Atlantic joint venture: The Joint Venture Agreement signed between Air France-KLM, Delta and Virgin Atlantic sets out the governance as well as the commercial and operational terms of the expanded trans-Atlantic Joint Venture. Upon completion,

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NATS takes equity stake in Aireon to help accelerate technology revolution in global aviation surveillance

The UK air traffic management service provider, NATS, has announced it has invested in Aireon, the company pioneering a space-based air traffic surveillance service set to revolutionise the aviation industry. Through a network of 66 low earth orbiting Iridium® NEXT satellites, AireonSM will monitor the location of Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) equipped aircraft flying anywhere

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Lufthansa Hit Hardest as Frankfurt Airport System Fails

A database system used to deploy staff crashed at Frankfurt Airport between 0100 and 1130GMT Wednesday, causing the cancellation of 70 flights, 23 of which were at Lufthansa. Lufthansa confirmed that in addition, it had to reduce the number of arrivals at the airport, resulting in a number of passengers missing connecting flights, while other

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Bombardier and Lufthansa Technik to unveil Dialed Up Flight Experience onboard Global 7000 aircraft

Bombardier has unveiled a preview of the revolutionary nice Touch cabin management system, a Bombardier-designed platform developed in collaboration with Lufthansa Technik and found exclusively on the Global 7000 aircraft. The nice Touch CMS will be on display at the 2018 European Business Aviation Convention & Exhibition in Geneva. The new system brings cabin connectivity

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StandardAero signs agreement with Reignwood Star Aviation to provide Rolls-Royce M250 and RR300 engine support

StandardAero has signed an agreement with Beijing Reignwood Star General Aviation Company to provide support to its fleet of Rolls-Royce M250 and RR300 engines powering the company’s Bell 407GX, 206L4, 206B3 and Robinson R66 helicopters. Over the course of this one-year agreement, StandardAero, as a Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) certificated maintenance organization, will

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Primera Air launch customer for Acro’s Series 7 Premium Economy Seat

Acro Aircraft Seating has delivered the first of their Series 7 Premium Economy Class seat, to launch customer Primera Air. This is the first of eight Airbus A321neo’s due for delivery in 2018 to have the front four rows (16 seats per shipset) installed with Acro’s Series 7 Premium Economy seats and the remaining rows

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