Effective October 30, 2023, Qatar Airways will increase frequency to New York (JFK) from two to three daily flights. Offering new connections between New York and more than 80 destinations in the Middle East, Africa, South Asia and Southeast Asia, the new flights will conveniently arrive early morning and depart late evening from New York […]
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EHang Holdings Limited (EHang), a Chinese leading autonomous aerial vehicle (AAV) technology platform company, has released that it has achieved a significant milestone for its EH216-S TC by successfully completing all of the planned tests and flights in the last phase of demonstration and verification of compliance, and also completed the definitive TC Flight Test
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Finnair’s CEO, Topi Manner, has given notice of his resignation from the company to join Elisa Corporation as its new CEO, starting at the latest on March 1, 2024. Until then, Manner continues as normal in his CEO role at Finnair. “Topi Manner has done a stellar job with his team in leading Finnair through
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FL Technics, a leading aircraft maintenance solutions company, has started the establishment of new MRO infrastructure at Punta Cana International Airport (PUJ), Dominican Republic. Once the first stage of the development is finished, facilities will include five bays for base maintenance operations including a complex of fully-fledged supporting shops. Including the hangar and bays facility
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Milan Bergamo Airport welcomed the addition of Air Arabia’s connection to Sharjah last December – significantly the airport’s first direct link to the United Arab Emirates – and fortified an already strong alliance with the Middle East and North Africa’s first and largest low-cost carrier (LCC). The development of the Italian gateway’s partnership with the
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Swissport Deutschland GmbH (Swissport) has successfully completed its acquisition of a 74.9% stake in Flughafen Düsseldorf Cargo GmbH (Flughafen Düsseldorf) for the creation of a cargo joint venture which will operate under the name of Swissport DUS Cargo Services GmbH. The new partnership came into effect on August 17. The completion of the deal follows
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Average global air cargo rates have stabilised in the last five weeks at around -37% below their levels this time last year – still being more than +30% above their comparable pre-COVID levels – while the decreasing trend in global tonnages continued into the first full week of August, with volumes around -4% year-on-year, according
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Boom Supersonic (Boom) has released that Scott Powell, a former senior engineering leader at Boeing, is joining Boom as Senior Vice President of Symphony, the propulsion system for Overture. “We’ve made significant design progress on Symphony,” said Blake Scholl, founder and CEO of Boom. “Adding Scott’s leadership and experience overseeing certifications for a wide range
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Boeing has ferried an MD-90 airplane from Victorville, California, to Palmdale, where it will be modified to test the Transonic Truss-Braced Wing (TTBW) configuration as part of NASA’s Sustainable Flight Demonstrator project. The X-66A is NASA’s first experimental plane focused on helping the U.S. achieve its goal of net-zero aviation greenhouse gas emissions. Modification will
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BOC Aviation has released its unaudited financial outcomes for the six-month period concluding on June 30, 2023. BOC Aviation posted a net profit after tax (NPAT) of US$262 million during the initial half of 2023. This success was propelled by an upsurge in lease rental earnings, coinciding with the upward trajectory of global passenger travel.
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