Air BP, the international aviation fuel products and service supplier, has completed a series of upgrades and enhancements at its Grenoble-Le Versoud Airport (LFLG) location in France. The company renewed its contract with the airport in early 2016 marking an impressive 46 years of collaboration. This relationship represents one of Air BP’s longest standing airport
As part of the China’s economic drive to invest in overseas businesses, the Everbright Group, a state-backed finance firm, has acquired all the shares of Tirana International Airport (TIA) which operates the country’s principal airport, also known as Rinas International Airport. The purchase price has not been disclosed, but it has been known that the
The technology company MOMook, developing management software solutions for aviation training centres, has signed a service agreement with the Aviation Training Center of Tunisia (ATCT). The two-year agreement, signed on 29th of September, includes the MOMook solution for the company’s training scheduling, documents, and user management, syllabus manager, examination, reporting and student progress, warehouse and
Heli-One, a provider of helicopter maintenance, repair, and overhaul (MRO) services, has received Supplemental Type Certificate (STC) approval for its Universal Avionics EFI-890H Advanced Flight Display upgrade from the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) and Transport Canada (TCCA). This STC is a part of the AS332L and L1 modernisation program currently underway with the Bundespolizei
Istanbul-based Turkish Airlines has announced that it intends to defer 39 of its on-order narrow-body jets, citing the impact of terrorist attacks on leisure travel and the fall in oil prices negatively affecting corporate travel in the oil and gas sector. While the Star Alliance member-airline has not given plane-specific details, it is understood that
Star Alliance and Juneyao Airlines formally sealed a strategic partnership which will see the Shanghai based airline become a “Connecting Partner” of Star Alliance in 2017. Under the Alliance’s innovative partnership concept, the airline will soon start offering services such as through-checkin, as well as Lounge access and other Priority privileges to qualifying passengers travelling
GE Aviation opened its digital collaboration center in Austin with launch customer Qantas Airways. Through the partnership, data scientists, software developers and architects from GE and Qantas will work together to distill some of the ten billion data points produced by the aviation sector annually into solutions that can achieve greater fleet intelligence and operational
Citing such external influences as terrorist attacks, Brexit and the weakening pound, easyJet, the low-cost UK-based carrier has forecast a £490-£495 million pre-tax profit for the carrier’s tax year ending September 30. This figure is down 29% on the last financial year’s profit of $686 million. According to the airline: “EasyJet has performed strongly in
Embraer has strengthened its corporate team in Europe, Middle East and Africa with the appointment of Guy Douglas as Director of Corporate Communications EMEA. Douglas will report to Jorge Ramos, Embraer’s President EMEA, and in matrix to Saulo Passos, Global Head of Marketing and Communications. He will cover the region from the Embraer EMEA headquarters
Opened in May 2010, Gelendzhik Airport is the first new airport which has been built in Russia since the Soviet era. Currently handling 140 passengers an hour, a new 5,200 m² single-storey terminal is to be opened in 2018, a year after originally planned, which will be capable of handling up to 314 passengers per
