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The three-day computer system outage which began over the holiday weekend of May 27-29 looks likely to cost the British flag-carrying airline approximately £80 million (US$102 million) according to British Airways’ parent company, IAG. This is just under half initial estimates of £150 million (US$191 million) put forward immediately after the event At an IAG […]

Leonardo has officially opened its AW101 Norway Training Centre on June 12, at Stavanger Sola Airport. The training centre includes a new AW101 Full Flight Simulator (FFS) which will support the training of Norwegian aircrew and will also be available to other AW101 customers. The first training course at the centre, for Royal Norwegian Air

ATR will be adding a brand new Full Flight Simulator (FFS) to its Paris Training Center. Manufactured by TRU Simulation + Training, this new simulator will allow crew members to receive training on the ATR 72-600. The simulator will be EASA-certified and will start operations as of November 2017. Thanks to this brand new FFS,

Pilot leaders at Mesa Airlines, represented by the Air Line Pilots Association, Int’l (ALPA), have reached a tentative agreement (TA) on a new collective bargaining agreement with their management. The new TA includes pay increases for all pilots, increased vacation accrual, and better retirement benefits among many other contract improvements. Union leaders will now send

Air BP, the international aviation fuel products and service supplier, has taken over the management and operation of fuel services at Cape Town International Airport (CPT/FACT) in South Africa, effective June 1st. The operation, which will be managed through the Cape Town Airport Fuelling Services joint venture, will remain under Air BP’s management for a

Vector Aerospace Corporation has reported that its Component Services team, based in Almondbank, Perth, has been officially accepted onto the UK’s Sharing in Growth (SiG) programme. SiG is an ambitious transformation programme which raises the capability of UK aerospace suppliers in order to share in the growth of aerospace and other global markets. The £250m

StandardAero continues to break new ground, achieving another Supplemental Type Certificate (STC) for the first Honeywell JetWave Ka band global high-speed broadband connectivity solution available for Gulfstream G-IV business aviation aircraft operators. In November of last year, StandardAero received a similar STC for a JetWave system for Falcon 900/B/C/EX series aircraft. StandardAero completed its first

The European Commission on June 8, delivered on its ambitious Aviation Strategy for Europe by adopting a series of measures to further support open and connected aviation markets in the European Union and beyond. The four initiatives presented on June 8, aim to safeguard competition and connectivity in aviation, facilitate investments in European airlines and

EDM, a global provider of training simulators to the civil aviation and defence sectors, has won an order from China Eastern Airlines to manufacture two B787 Door Trainers. EDM will design and manufacture both Door Trainers at its Manchester facility in the UK before shipping and installing them at the airline’s cabin crew training centre