In a reaction to the “unprecedented” crisis in the global economy and with 90% of its revenue coming from exports, Embraer, the world’s fourth-largest airplane manufacturer and market leader in mid-sized passenger jets, has announced the intention to lay off some of its workforce. Both production and administration sides of the business will be affected as […]
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Global Eagle Entertainment a provider of satellite-based connectivity and media to rapidly expanding mobility markets, has signed a contract with Avianca Brasil to provide inflight connectivity to the carrier’s full fleet of over 40 aircraft. Avianca Brasil operates in 24 airports with over 200 daily flights in South America. GEE has been the provider of
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As regulators worldwide search for a solution to the ever-increasing problem of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), or drones as they are also called, a further incident has occurred at Germany’s Munich Airport between a UAV and a Lufthansa A321 on its approach to the airport on August 4. The plane in question was on a
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BAA Training, the Lithuanian-based type rating, ab initio, cabin crew, ground handling and many other aviation training provider was approved by the Civil Aviation Authority of Mongolia (CAAM) to give ATR 72-500 type rating training for pilots who hold MCAA pilot licenses. Training will take place in EASA certificated simulator which is located in Baku,
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Allegiant on Thursday, August 4, formally broke ground on the airline’s new East Coast training center, located adjacent to Orlando Sanford International Airport (SFB) in Sanford, Florida. The US$24m, 43,000 ft² facility will be completed and equipped to begin hosting training for Allegiant flight crew members and mechanics by Q1 of 2017. Allegiant operates a
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Larry Vance, a leading flight investigator who has led over 200 investigations, has indicated that he feels there is “definite evidence” which backs up his theory that missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 was deliberately flown into the sea. This news comes only days after it was revealed that pilot of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, Captain
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Despite the safe evacuation of all passengers and crew on board an Emirates Boeing 777 which crash landed at Dubai Airport at 12.55pm local time, one firefighter was killed shortly afterwards while tackling the blaze which engulfed the whole aircraft. The airline’s chair and chief executive, Sheikh Ahmed Bin Saeed Al Maktoum, said: “We pay
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Jet Professionals, a business aviation staffing services, will open a new office at Burbank Bob Hope Airport in August. The new office at Burbank Bob Hope Airport in Burbank, California, which will open mid-August, allows Jet Professionals to better serve the needs of the company’s growing client base on the West Coast. The company will
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EDM, a provider of training simulators to the civil aviation and defence sectors, has won an order from a major US airline to supply a Virtual Slide Trainer (VST). The VST provides practical slide deployment training for emergency evacuation on land and when ditching. The solution reduces the significant cost and time associated with the
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Thirty Saudi Arabian students to start air traffic control training with air traffic services provider Airways. This is the fourth group of students to be trained by Airways from Saudi Arabia’s civil air services provider, the General Authority of Civil Aviation of Saudi Arabia (GACA) – helping to fill a critical gap in the Middle
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