Bombardier has announced the delivery of a fifth Global business jet to Swedish defense supplier Saab’s Linköping, Sweden, ready for conversion into Saab’s Airborne Early Warning and Control solution known as GlobalEye. The aircraft was delivered to Saab from Bombardier’s Toronto manufacturing site after interior completions works at Flying Colours Corp. in Peterborough, Ontario, prior […]
Air New Zealand has announced a loss before other significant items and taxation of NZ$440 million for the 2021 financial year and a net loss of NZ$289 million – its first full 12-month period of operation with COVID-19-related international travel restrictions. Using the same metric, the company reported an NZ$87 million loss for the 2020 financial year.
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Nordic Aviation Capital (NAC) has delivered one ATR 72-600, MSN 1131, to new customer DAT on lease. DAT is a Danish airline founded in 1989 by Kirsten and Jesper Rungholm. DAT, formerly known as Danish Air Transport, started as a freight carrier operating with a single twin engine plane that flew with everything from mail
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GECAS, the aviation lessor and financier, has announced that it intends to lease two 737-800 Boeing Converted Freighters (BCF) to Kargo Xpress, the M Jets International start-up. The two jets will be delivered in October 2021 and January 2022, substantially increasing capacity for the newest freight carrier in Malaysia. Cargo Xpress commenced scheduled flights in
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Boeing, in collaboration with the U.S. Air Force and Qatar Emiri Air Force (QEAF), have celebrated the naming and rollout of Qatar’s advanced F-15, the F-15QA jet. The first set of F-15QA jets will ferry to Qatar later this year following the completion of pre-delivery pilot training. “The Qatar F-15QA program further enhanced next-generation technologies
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Gatwick Airport has announced that a public consultation will start on September 9, 2021, on plans to bring its existing northern runway into routine use alongside its main runway. The scheme will help secure the airports long-term growth, generating approximately 18,400 additional jobs by 2038 and an additional expected £1.5 billion (US$2.06 billion) GVA to the region. While passenger numbers currently remain low due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Gatwick is taking its plans for growth forward now as it still expects to be capacity
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Storm Aviation Limited (SAL), a global provider of line and base maintenance and aviation training services, has acquired Manchester-based Chevron Technical Services (CTS), and its Prestwick-based subsidiary Chevron Aircraft Maintenance (CAM) providing aerospace solutions to the aircraft maintenance industry. SAL, a subsidiary of FL Technics, which is part of Avia Solutions Group (ASG), will create
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The Qantas Group has posted a substantial full-year loss as a result of the COVID crisis. Total revenue loss from COVID reached AU$16 billion as the full-year impact of minimal international travel and multiple waves of domestic border restrictions continued to hit travel demand. The Group’s underlying PBT loss was AU$1.83 billion. The statutory loss
Astronics Corporation has signed a cooperative agreement with Aerotec Concept of Toulouse, France. The agreement will provide both companies the opportunity to offer a greater breadth of new technologies, applications, and/or modifications requiring EASA (European Union Aviation Safety Agency) and FAA (U.S. Federal Aviation Administration) certifications to the marketplace. More specifically, the cooperative agreement provides
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Jet Aviation has announced that it is providing further support for Gulfstream models registered in Turkey. The company has received approval from the Directorate General of Civil Aviation in Turkey to support G450-, G550- and G650-series aircraft carrying TC registrations at its maintenance facility in Geneva. With this new approval, the company’s Geneva MRO facility
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