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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

In a forceful keynote speech at the US Chamber of Commerce Foundation’s 14th Annual Aviation Summit in Washington, DC, Etihad Airways president and CEO, James Hogan, declared that this was the right time and place “to clear the air” regarding accusations from three of the top American airlines that Gulf carriers had been operating unfairly

LAM Mozambique Airlines has decided that Alkym is one of the most cost effective maintenance management solution on the market. An intensive selection process allowed LAM to consider all the options on the market with focus on a user friendly, leading edge technology delivered at a competitive price. LAM Mozambique Airlines have elected to take

Back in November 2012, Boeing had established a build rate of 5 787s per month. Just over a year and three production increases later, in January 2014 that figure was up to 10. The company is aiming for an increase to 12 units per month by 2016, and 14 by 2020. The current order book,