A month after China’s first home-grown civilian jet, COMAC’s ARJ-21, took to the skies for the first time, the general secretary of the Communist Party of China, Xi Jinping, has announced the creation of the country’s latest economic incentive, Aero Engine Corp. which will have 96,000 employees concentrating on the design, manufacturing and testing of
Japanese manufacturer, Mitsubishi, has seen a further setback to its already heavily delayed MRJ90 twin-engine regional which will seat between 70 and 90 passengers. The current incident involved its first test aircraft, which was positioned to Grant County International Airport in Moses Lake, Washington, U.S. where flight testing is far less restricted than in Japan.
It has been reported from Geneva that the International Transport Association (IATA) and Egypt’s authorities are attempting to find a solution for the repatriation of funds owed to airlines operating in Egypt. The current value of blocked funds stands at US$275 million. To date ongoing discussions between airlines, the Central Bank of Egypt and Egypt’s
The UK’s Air Accidents Investigation Branch is to investigate the crash on Wednesday this week of the world’s largest aircraft, the Airlander 10. On only its second UK test flight, at the end of the test flight the aircraft ‘nosedived’ at Cardington Airfield, Bedfordshire, extensively damaging the cockpit, though fortunately nobody was injured. During the
The European Commission’s (EC) investigation into Etihad’s acquisition of a 49% stake in Air Serbia which occurred on August 1, 2013 has concluded it is totally compliant with all EU regulations according to results delivered on July 8. Etihad has a substantial portfolio of equity alliances, including Alitalia (49%), Air Seychelles (40%), Darwin Airline (34%),
Subsequent to the recent decision by Denver International Airport to select a consortium led by Ferrovial Airports to privatize the airport’s Great Hall, a judge in Barcelona, Spain has decided to try those associated with a kickbacks scheme where it is alleged that Ferrovial paid money to influence the awarding of public contracts. It has
91% OF 8,800 British Airways members of British Airlines Stewards and Stewardesses Association (BASSA), a section of the UK’s largest trade union, Unite, have voted for industrial action if the carrier continues with its plans to enforce a newly introduced staff performance system. Aside from pointing out that the current system works fairly for all
The French noise abatement authority, Autorité de Contrôle des Nuisances Sonores Aéroportuaires (ACNUSA), took strong steps against Warsaw-based Enter Air to recover unpaid fines relating to noise disturbance at Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport levied between 2013 and 2014. According to records, the Polish airline owed €1.103 million in unpaid noise disturbance fines pertaining to
Two weeks after an Emirates Boeing 777-300 crash landed at Dubai Airport, a Qatar Airways A330 has been forced to make an emergency landing at Istanbul’s Ataturk airport after suffering what is understood to have been a “bird strike” on Thursday. The incident occurred shortly after the flight, codenamed QR240, took off for Doha at
In light of a number of fires onboard aircraft which have been attributed to ignition of lithium batteries, in a joint letter to the Minister of Trade, Industry and Transport, the International Air Transport Association, directors of Civil Aviation and the world’s largest lithium battery manufacturing and export countries, IATA, PRBA, the US Rechargeable Battery
