Since Christmas period is historically terrible for flying – there’s 50% chance to get your flight delayed – knowing which situations are due to unruly weather and which are subject to airline manipulation, becomes a hard nut to crack. While a smoking volcano is all self-evident reason to halt flights, the threshold between the dangerous and safe weather is clear only to the avia...
Contract for two AW139s for the Coast Guard and six for the Customs and Border Protection Service valued at approximately 112 million euro for delivery by 2020 53 AW139s ordered by the Italian Government operators for public services to date Over 250 customers from around 70 nations have already ordered more than 1,000 AW139s, nearly 900 of which are in service Leonardo anno...
easyJet can confirm that it has acquired part of Air Berlin's operations at Berlin Tegel Airport. The acquisition will result in easyJet operating 25 aircraft from Berlin Tegel Airport. The agreement includes easyJet leasing former Air Berlin aircraft, taking over other assets including slots, and offering employment to former Air Berlin flying crew. Johan Lundgren, CEO of easyJet, commente...
Piper Aircraft, Inc. and OK Aviation Sales announced today that they have expanded OK Aviation's territory to include Bulgaria and Romania. OK Aviation has been a Piper Dealer for nearly 20 years providing sales and product support to the country of the Czech Republic, Hungary, and the Slovak Republic. "For many years OK Aviation has been a proud and highly satisfied dealer of Piper pr...
The WingX Advance Q4 report revealed London Biggin Hill Airport as one of the fastest-growing business aviation airports in Europe, with a 23% year-on-year increase in departures for November, resulting in a remarkable 16% hike for 2017. The report indicates that the average year-to-date growth for business aviation in Europe was 4.2%, making the airport’s 16% climb a notable achievement....
The Latvian airline airBaltic will launch a new direct service from London Gatwick Airport to Tallinn on March 27, 2018. The two weekly flights will offer convenient connections between the two cities. Martin Gauss, Chief Executive Officer of airBaltic: “By improving air travel service between the Baltic capitals and European cities, airBaltic is reinforcing its position as the leading ai...
Global offshore service provider Babcock International has taken delivery of two H175s at a ceremony in Darwin, Australia. Babcock’s aircraft are the first H175s to be introduced into the southern hemisphere and will be based in Dili, Timor Leste. The new aircraft will be used to transport personnel and provide search and rescue and medevac support in the Timor Sea, approximately 5...
Boeing, Neos and AerCap today celebrated the delivery of the leisure carrier's first Boeing 787 Dreamliner. Neos is leasing the 787-9 through an agreement with AerCap and becomes the first Italian operator of the airplane. "With a significant portion of the 787 produced in Italy we are proud to be the country's first operator of the Dreamliner," said Carlo...
16th December, 2017. Deer Jet made history again by becoming the first Chinese private jet operator to fly from China to the Antarctica. The arrival of one of the company’s private jets at Wolfs Fang airport had marked the achieving of the aircraft’s test flight and the launching of a new charter service between China and the Antarctica. Deer Jet is known for its pioneering role i...
SITAONAIR is celebrating a decade since the first ever inflight cellular data transmission and the birth of Mobile ONAIR. Since that initial transmission was made onboard an Airbus A318 flight on 17 December 2007, it has been installed in more than 550 aircraft, serving the changing needs of commercial, VIP and governmental flights alike. Over the past decade,...
Underscores airline’s confidence in Airbus single-aisle family Delta Air Lines placed an order with Airbus for 100 of the manufacturer’s modern A321neo ACF (Airbus Cabin Flex configuration) aircraft. The U.S.-based carrier selected the largest member of Airbus’ single-aisle Family to meet Delta’s future requirements for aircraft with greater efficiency and additional cap...
Garmin International Inc., a unit of Garmin Ltd.announced the GDL 52/51, a series of portable receivers that are capable of receiving Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) traffic and weather, as well as SiriusXM Aviation weather1 and audio for display and control on select portables and mobile devices. The flagship GDL 52 combines all of these functions into a single device, whi...
