The Government of Argentina has begun an extensive effort to modernize the national airline Aerolineas Argentinas and domestic carrier Austral. President Cristina Kirchner unveiled a new Boeing 737/700 last week, the first new airplane bought for Aerolineas Argentinas in 16 years. The airline and its sister airline Austral were nationalized in December 2008 to maintain
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Flight Director recently celebrated 25 years in business. Founded in 1984, FDI has established itself as a leader in the commercial and military aircraft parts supply chain. FDI has offices located in Austin, Texas and Irvine, California.
Boeing and a team from across the aviation industry released high-level elements of a study that shows that sustainable biofuels analyzed in a series of pioneering test flights performed favorably in comparison to petroleum-based fuel. According to the study, Evaluation of Bio-Derived Synthetic Paraffinic Kerosene (Bio-SPK), a series of laboratory, ground and flight tests conducted
Abu Dhabi Airports Company announced that it has signed a joint venture agreement with Helios SinoGulf Property Development LLC to develop a logistics and business park under free zone regulation adjacent to Al Ain International Airport. The development will cover 650,000 square metres and will include office space, distribution centres, light industrial units, freight forwarding
Valliere Aviation Group (holding of Europe Aviation) and Tunisair have signed an agreement which should lead to the creation of a common maintenance company in Tunis in the next 18 months. Europe Aviation, from the Valliere Group, provides a large scope of maintenance services on both Airbus and Boeing aircraft from line maintenance to Total
Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) and Airbus have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) at the 2009 International Paris Air Show to jointly develop and test an innovative environmentally friendly pilot-controlled towing semi-robotic system. The Taxibot Dispatch Towing system, designed by IAI, allows both wide and narrow body commercial airplanes to taxi to and from the
GreenStone Aviation, a commercial aircraft leasing company, has announced that it has been capitalised with over $100 million in equity. GreenStone will focus exclusively on the sale/leaseback of newly-delivered commercial aircraft ordered by major airlines. The company is backed by leading private equity investors and led by John S. Slattery, the former head of RBS
flydubai, Dubai’s first low cost airline, became a reality on Monday, June 1, 2009, when its first commercial flight took off. The first flight, which was to the Lebanese capital, Beirut, was closely followed by flights to Amman, Jordan, on June 2, Damascus, Syria, on June 8 and Alexandria, Egypt, on June 9, giving the
TNT Airways and Sabena technics have agreed to set up a joint venture company (JV) with the aim to provide a full range of line and light maintenance services to TNT
