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Star Alliance and Juneyao Airlines formally sealed a strategic partnership which will see the Shanghai based airline become a “Connecting Partner” of Star Alliance in 2017. Under the Alliance’s innovative partnership concept, the airline will soon start offering services such as through-checkin, as well as Lounge access and other Priority privileges to qualifying passengers travelling

GE Aviation opened its digital collaboration center in Austin with launch customer Qantas Airways. Through the partnership, data scientists, software developers and architects from GE and Qantas will work together to distill some of the ten billion data points produced by the aviation sector annually into solutions that can achieve greater fleet intelligence and operational

Embraer has strengthened its corporate team in Europe, Middle East and Africa with the appointment of Guy Douglas as Director of Corporate Communications EMEA. Douglas will report to Jorge Ramos, Embraer’s President EMEA, and in matrix to Saulo Passos, Global Head of Marketing and Communications. He will cover the region from the Embraer EMEA headquarters

Opened in May 2010, Gelendzhik Airport is the first new airport which has been built in Russia since the Soviet era. Currently handling 140 passengers an hour, a new 5,200 m² single-storey terminal is to be opened in 2018, a year after originally planned, which will be capable of handling up to 314 passengers per

Finnair and Patria Pilot Training have signed an agreement for the training of new commercial pilots. According to the agreement, Patria will run a MPL training program (Multi-Crew Pilot License) for Finnair together with the Finnair Flight Academy. The first training course will begin at the end of this year, Patria aims to open annually

As Gogo Business Aviation (GOGO) continues toward its scheduled launch of its 4G service in the first half of 2017, Constant Aviation will be one of the first Gogo dealers to develop Supplemental Type Certificates (STCs) for the new system. Constant, a full-service maintenance, repair and overhaul Gogo dealer, will develop STCs for Embraer 145

Etihad Aviation Group and TUI AG confirmed they are in discussions to create a strong European leisure airline group, focused on point-to-point flying to connect key tourist markets. It is proposed to contribute the touristic operations of the airberlin group and the German TUIfly company, including the aircraft currently operated by TUIfly for airberlin under

AerData, a Boeing Company, the provider of lease management, records management and engine fleet planning software, reported a new arrangement between AMOS of Swiss AviationSoftware and AerData’s STREAM solution, providing customers with a fully-integrated software platform for a more efficient and complete aircraft electronic records management system. STREAM (Secure Technical Records for Electronic Asset Management)