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American Airlines will begin operating its new daily service between Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport (DFW) and Beijing Capital International Airport (PEK) on May 7th, marking the airline’s sixth daily flight to Asia from DFW and the only nonstop flight connecting DFW and Beijing. With the addition of this service, American will offer 11 routes between

In a move that is doubtless intended to show international air safety bodies that Indonesia has woken up to the fact they have been lax in their air safety policies, Indonesia’s Minister of Transport, Ignasius Jonan, has announced that a number of new safety rules have been put in place since the crash of AirAsia’s

It was only eighteen months ago aviation news was reporting that Airbus and Boeing airframes were being retired after only 15 years in service. The reason – high fuel prices. This meant that demand for air travel remained relatively static and few expanded routes or new airlines were appearing. At the time, the UK’s Air

The strategy for the new Alitalia was unveiled on January 20th, with an unequivocal commitment by the new executive team and strategic investors to reinvent the airline. Alitalia will introduce new routes, new product and service standards, a new cost management strategy and new branding, as the foundations to build a premium global airline representing

EMRISE CORPORATION, a multi-national manufacturer of defense and aerospace electronic devices and communications equipment, has received an US$8.4m production order for electronic device subsystems for In-Flight Entertainment and Connectivity (IFE&C) systems to be installed in commercial aircraft. The production order, which is for an existing, established product, is expected to begin shipping in the fourth

At La Guardia Airport, New York, a US FAA inspector was arrested after a firearm was alleged to have been found in one of his bags at a TSA checkpoint, as was revealed by ABC news on Saturday. It would appear the Atlanta-based inspector used a Security Identification Display Area badge allowing him to bypass

It was on December the 9th 2014, that it was first announced AAC Corp, headquartered in Wood Dale, Illinois were looking to sell Telair, a cargo-loading systems manufacturer it bought back in 2011 for US$280m together with Nordisk Aviation Products A S (Nordisk) from Teleflex Incorporated. This week AAC have announced that they want all

H.I.G. Capital, a leading global investment firm, announced that its affiliate has completed the acquisition of an equity interest in Aviapartner, thereby becoming the majority shareholder alongside the Group’s Chairman and management. Aviapartner is a leading European provider of airport ground handling services with 60 years of experience. Aviapartner provides ground handling services for passengers

Continuing with its aviation technology leadership in Africa, Ethiopian has acquired the first ever B787 Dreamliner full flight simulator in Africa. The installation and build-up of the full flight Simulator is in progress at Ethiopian’s main Hub in Addis Ababa and the first pilot training in the B787 flight simulator will start in March, 2015.