Despite the safe evacuation of all passengers and crew on board an Emirates Boeing 777 which crash landed at Dubai Airport at 12.55pm local time, one firefighter was killed shortly afterwards while tackling the blaze which engulfed the whole aircraft. The airline’s chair and chief executive, Sheikh Ahmed Bin Saeed Al Maktoum, said: “We pay
Jet Professionals, a business aviation staffing services, will open a new office at Burbank Bob Hope Airport in August. The new office at Burbank Bob Hope Airport in Burbank, California, which will open mid-August, allows Jet Professionals to better serve the needs of the company’s growing client base on the West Coast. The company will
EDM, a provider of training simulators to the civil aviation and defence sectors, has won an order from a major US airline to supply a Virtual Slide Trainer (VST). The VST provides practical slide deployment training for emergency evacuation on land and when ditching. The solution reduces the significant cost and time associated with the
Thirty Saudi Arabian students to start air traffic control training with air traffic services provider Airways. This is the fourth group of students to be trained by Airways from Saudi Arabia’s civil air services provider, the General Authority of Civil Aviation of Saudi Arabia (GACA) – helping to fill a critical gap in the Middle
Despite IndiGo’s reported increase in operational revenue of 8.7% compared to the same quarter last year, the figure of INR45.8 billion for Q1 2017 has resulted in a net profit of only INR5.29 billion, a drop of 7.4% compared to Q1 2016. Aditaya Ghosh, IndiGo president, confirmed that profitability had fallen “primarily because of competitive
Aviation engineering and maintenance specialist, Commsoft has been chosen to supply its MRO IT system, OASES (Open Aviation Strategic Engineering System) to the French business class airline, La Compagnie. The contract represents Commsoft’s first direct customer in France and OASES will support La Compagnie’s operations for its current fleet of two Boeing 757-200s. Commsoft signed
It was in January 2015 that Qatar Airways first acquired a stake in International Consolidated Airlines Group (IAG), buying 9.9% of the company for approximately £1.2 billion (US$1.7 billion), shortly after which it increased this stake to 10.01%. In May this year it increased that stake to 15.01% with the acquisition of a further 5%
The Joint Agency Coordination Centre (JACC) has released information that a home flight simulator owned by the captain of missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, Zaharie Ahmad Shah, has been examined by the FBI and that he had plotted a route similar to the path the missing airliner is thought to have taken when it vanished
China Eastern Airlines has selected Rockwell Collins’ Iridium SATCOM aftermarket solution for its fleet of more than 100 Boeing 737 aircraft. Installations are currently in progress. The voice and data communications solution, installed via a Boeing service bulletin for Next-Generation Boeing 737s, will enable reliable long-range global voice communications, flight tracking and Aircraft Communications Addressing
Allegiant reported that pilots represented by the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT) have voted to ratify their first contract agreement with the Company. Allegiant and IBT have been negotiating in mediated sessions with the National Mediation Board since February 2014. The contract goes into effect August 1, 2016 for a five-year term.
