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The SAS Group is launching a new environmental strategy that includes an ambitious strategic environmental target. The new environmental target is to reduce total carbon-dioxide emissions by 20% by 2020 compared with 2007. The new environmental target assumes passenger growth of 4% per year and for each producing unit the target entails halving carbon-dioxide emissions […]

Dr. Michael Haidinger, Chairman of Rolls-Royce Deutschland since October 2006, has taken up an additional role within the Group with effect from 1 March 2008. Dr. Haidinger will take on the role of Chief Operating Officer of Corporate & Regional Engines for Rolls-Royce, and will be accountable for civil engine programmes below 25,000 lbs thrust,

PlaneSmart! Aviation announced an expansion of their fleet to keep up with customer demand for fractional shares of professionally managed aircraft. PlaneSmart! has ordered two additional fully loaded Cirrus SR22-G3 Turbo aircraft which are expected to roll off the assembly line in time for Spring Flying.

Citing consistently strong demand from business travelers, Singapore Airlines has announced plans to convert its five Airbus A340-500 ultra-long-range aircraft into an all-Business Class configuration, on daily flights between New York and Singapore, and Los Angeles and Singapore. The current 2-class, 181 seat, configuration will be replaced with 100 of the airline’s new, Business Class

Ryanair announced its 27th European and second Scottish base in Edinburgh. From September, Ryanair will base two new Boeing 737-800 aircraft (worth $140 million) which will serve 19 routes to/from Edinburgh. These new routes will deliver 1.2 million passengers and sustain 1,200 jobs in Edinburgh and East Scotland.

Bombardier Aerospace, Belfast has announced that Professor Richard Barnett and Mr Sean Dorgan have agreed to act as non-executive directors of Bombardier

Shenzhen Airlines, one of China’s leading airlines, reported its adoption of a new B737-NG FFS X from Mechtronix, a growing manufacturer of flight training equipment. The FFS X NZFT (Non Zero Flight Time) unit is currently being delivered with plans to install and qualify with Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) for training set to

Pratt & Whitney Canada has launched an all-new Fleet Management Program designed to meet the wide-ranging engine maintenance needs of helicopter customers around the world. The new Fleet Management Program (FMP) offers helicopter customers a combination of cost stability and simplicity. Customers pay a guaranteed rate that recognizes the demanding and often changing operating environments

Qantas reported that it would hire 900 new long haul flight attendants by the end of 2008 in the first phase of its largest ever cabin crew recruitment drive. The Chief Executive Officer of Qantas, Mr Geoff Dixon, said the airline would continue to build its full- time flight attendant numbers through to 2010 to

Singapore Technologies Aerospace unveiled its latest hangar in Singapore at its wholly-owned subsidiary, ST Aerospace Engineering, in Seletar. Following the groundbreaking ceremony in April 2007, the 4,860 sqm (51,333 sq ft) hangar is now completed and launched at the official ceremony on February 21. The two-bay hangar costs about S$17.3 million, and is capable of