This year the Lufthansa Group will be hiring more than 4,500 new employees in Germany, Austria and Switzerland as things currently stand; among them 3,000 hires will take place in Germany. This involves both re-placement appointments due to fluctuation and, in some cases, job increases. The focus of the recruitment planned in the DACH countries
Bombardier has delivered a fully equipped Learjet 75 aircraft to Montreal-based leasing firm Holand Automotive Group. Holand Automotive Group, which already owns and operates another Learjet 75 aircraft, will make this newest Learjet 75 aircraft available for charter out of Montreal. This fully equipped, reliable light jet is ideally suited for eight passengers. It features
Nordic Aviation Capital (NAC) has delivered one new Embraer E190, MSN 19000771, to Air France Hop on lease. This is the sixth aircraft to deliver as part of a seven-aircraft lease agreement. The airline, headquartered at Nantes Atlantique Airport, Bouguenais, France, operates flights to 50 destinations throughout France and Europe.
Airbus has taken full advantage of Boeing’s 737 MAX woes and even managed to exceed the company’s October’s revised goal of 860 deliveries for 2019. Having canceled many holidays and re-allocated elements of its workforce, the European plane manufacturer managed to complete a backlog of aircraft which were waiting to have their cabins adjusted. In
Eirtech has contracted with SAS Scandinavian Airlines for Phase II End of Lease Redelivery Programme. The first phase of the programme, for which Eirtech managed the redelivery of a significant volume of aircraft to multiple lessors, has commenced in 2015 and has concluded at the end of 2019. Phase II of the programme will begin
AerCap has signed an agreement with AirSial, a privately-owned Pakistani startup airline, for the lease of three used Airbus A320 aircraft. The aircraft are scheduled to deliver in the second quarter of 2020 and will be the first aircraft to be delivered to the airline. Aengus Kelly, CEO of AerCap, said, “For more than a
The Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China (COMAC) has announced that its sixth C919 AC106 prototype has successfully undergone its first test flight which lasted just over two hours after the jet took off from Shanghai on Friday, December 12. The C919 is China’s solution to the Airbus-Boeing duopoly involving the A320- and 737-family jets respectively
The Pearl® 15, the exclusive engine option for Bombardier’s Global 5500 and Global 6500 aircraft, has received its official certification by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). The engine, which was developed at the Rolls-Royce Centre of Excellence for Business Aviation engines in Dahlewitz, Germany, has previously been certified by the European Union Aviation Safety Agency
Air Kiribati, the flag carrier of the Republic of Kiribati, has received its first E190-E2 jet. Embraer has signed the contract with the Government of Kiribati, in partnership with its national airline, Air Kiribati, in December 2018. The airline has ordered two E190-E2s and has purchase rights for two more. Air Kiribati is the launch
Embraer has delivered its first Praetor 500 business jet to the market, just over one year after its announcement at the 2018 National Business Aviation Association’s Business Aviation Convention and Exhibition (NBAA-BACE), alongside the Praetor 600, both of which have received triple certification from ANAC, the FAA, and EASA. The first Praetor 500 was delivered
