The devastating impact and mountainous terrain has meant that 36 hours after the crash of Germanwings flight 4U9525, only a damaged cockpit voice recorder has been recovered so far as search parties continue to scour the surrounding hillside for the flight data recorder. It will take some time of the cockpit voice recorder to be
Finnair’s Board of Directors has approved an approximately €80m investment in a brand new cargo terminal to be built at Helsinki Airport. The construction work of the new 35,000 m2 terminal will start in March 2015. The capacity of the new terminal has been planned according to the increasing cargo capacity offered by the Airbus
Finnair Board of Directors has approved an investment program for bringing Wi-Fi connectivity to the majority of Finnair’s wide-body and narrow-body fleet. The total value of the investment is approximately €30m. “This investment will enable us to offer a wide array of new services to our customers, ranging from inflight entertainment to inflight sales and
With GE Aviation RNP’s service, China Southern launched the first Required Navigation Performance flight including a route flown from Guangzhou-Linzhi-Guangzhou. GE Aviation designed procedures for China Southern Airlines’ fleet of Airbus A319s at Linzhi. The 95-mile approach into the airport is considered to be one of the most challenging commercial jetliner landings. Without RNP, Linzhi is
It has been confirmed that a Germanwings 24 year-old Airbus A320 has crashed in the French Alps while en route from Barcelona to Dusseldorf. The plane is understood to have had 144 passengers, 2 pilots and 4 cabin crew on board and France’s President Nichols Hollande has appeared on television to confirm that there would
Chief Executive Officer David Evans, from LIAT, the Caribbean Airline, signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Antigua State College (ASC) for an Engineering Technician Training Programme in Aircraft Maintenance. Other industry partners in the new programme, which commenced in September 2014, are Antigua-based Caribbean Helicopters; the College of the North Atlantic and the Marine Institute of
On Monday 16th March, in an interview reported in the Financial Times, Ryanair confirmed that its board had approved plans to go ahead with the long-anticipated development of transatlantic flights. It also confirmed that Ryanair was in discussion with manufacturers for new aircraft to launch a service covering a network of somewhere between 12 to
The massive devaluation of the rouble has seen Fraport AG affected quite heavily by the change in travelling and spending habits of Russians and Ukrainians. Fraport runs the world’s third largest airport at Frankfurt, as well as having other relevant financial investment with a 50% stake in Turkey’s Antalya airport, and a 35.5% stake in
It was back in March 2006 that seven current and former managers and two former industrial shareholders chose to sell their shares in Airbus. Subsequent events saw a costly delay to the production of the A380, and a costly change made to the strategy for the A 350, which only entered service this year.It was
Boeing has begun several months of flights with its ecoDemonstrator 757 to evaluate new technologies to improve commercial aviation’s efficiency, reduce noise and carbon emissions. Boeing is collaborating with TUI Group and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) on ecoDemonstrator 757 tests. The 757 flight tests continue the ecoDemonstrator Program’s multi-year effort to accelerate
