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Alaska Airlines recalibrates Boeing 737-9 order

Alaska Airlines plans to broaden our mainline fleet by adjusting our current 737-9 aircraft order with Boeing to include the bigger 737-10 and longer-range 737-8, which are all part of the 737 MAX family of planes. These additional 737 models will enhance Alaska's ability to meet speci...

Brussels Airlines adds two additional medium haul aircraft to its fleet this summer

Brussels Airlines has decided to add two aircraft to its medium haul fleet this summer season. This growth comes earlier than foreseen in its transformation plan (and state loan agreement) as it sees an opportunity in the increasing demand for summer. With one extra Airbus 319 and one extra A320, Br...

Etihad Airways transformation continues to deliver results with 41% improvement on Pre-COVID performance

Etihad Airways announced its business results for 2021, recording a strong recovery in passenger operations along with a significant improvement in financial performance, posting a much-reduced loss of US$ 476 million for 2021 (2020: US$ 1.70 billion).The airline carried 3.5 million passengers in 2021, with an average seat load factor of 39.6%. Passenger loads doubled in the second half of the yea...

Technoheaven announces strategic partnership with Emirates

Technoheaven announced a strategic partnership with Emirates airline. The new agreement will enable Emirates’ NDC (new distribution capability) content integrated into the Technoheaven platform, with NDC content being made available to its client community of travel agents, buyers and travel suppliers. Technoheaven recently achieved NDC Level 4 certification...

Norwegian to lease ten new Boeing 737 MAX 8 aircraft

Norwegian has a long-standing relationship with AerCap, the world largest aviation leasing company. The signed lease agreements also include eight Boeing 737-800 NG, which are part of the 70 aircraft fleet operational for the summer 2022 season. With these additions, Norwegian will have a total fleet of 80 aircraft by the summer of 2023. “The addition of these aircraft will help us a...

Iberia Maintenance awarded a Qatar Airways V2500 engines contract

Iberia Maintenance has been awarded a 10 year contract for the repair and maintenance of V2500 engines from Qatar Airways. This strategic agreement will result in scheduled visits over 10 years. All events will be carried out at Iberia Maintenance's engine workshop at its facilities next to Madrid airport, with more than 52,000 m2 dedicated to MRO and engineering services. Iberia En...

Just Fly It – ECS Group completes first charter mission with Amelia International

With Just Fly It, ECS Group leaves no freight and capacity unmatched. One of ten New Abilities available for individual purchase, Just Fly It is the Augmented GSA’s pure, comprehensive charter service available to freight forwarders as well as airlines. Looking for urgent, ad hoc charter capacity can seem like a needle-in-a-haystack search these days – and then there are all the o...

SWISS equips entire Boeing 777-300ER fleet with AeroSHARK

SWISS has decided to equip its entire Boeing long-haul fleet with the fuel-saving AeroSHARK surface technology. Starting in the middle of the year, a total of twelve Boeing 777-300ERs will gradually be fitted with the riblet films developed jointly by Lufthansa Technik and BASF. The significantly reduced frictional resistance resulting from this modification will make the sub-fleet more than one p...

Leading Asia Pacific travel - Qatar Airways & Malaysia Airlines comprehensive MoU for a strategic cooperation

A new chapter in long-standing relationship of Qatar Airways and Malaysia Airlines Berhad by signing a Memorandum of Understanding. The new agreement will further facilitate a strategic cooperation that will see both airlines working closely together across multiple areas of the business to offer an unrivalled and range of value-added services to passengers. With the enhanced partners...

Vietjet and ST Engineering signed aircraft component support contract

On February 25th, 2022, ST Engineering and Vietjet signed a comprehensive component Maintenance-By-the-Hour contract to support the airline's entire fleet. The signing ceremony took place during the official visit of Vietnamese President Nguyen Xuan Phuc to Singapore. Under the contract, ST Engineering will provide Vietjet with a full suite of...

Embraer signed services agreement for the Air Peace E-Jets E2s fleet

At MRO Middle East event in Dubai Embraer has signed a comprehensive long-term services agreement with Air Peace, Nigeria and West Africa’s largest airline, to support the airline’s E195-E2 and ERJ 145 fleets. The contract includes access to the Pool Program, which includes component exchanges and repair services for hundreds of reparable items for Air Peace’s Embraer a...

Flight attendant career - myths vs reality

Many agree that being a flight attendant sound simply dreamy. Yet in society, there are plenty of myths about the profession. Jovita Jasinskaite, a flight attendant flying for Avion Express, a European narrow-body ACMI operator, shares her thoughts on some of the most well-known myths about the career and life of flight attendants. Myth No. 1: Being a cabin crew is like working as a waite...

STARLUX took delivery of it first A330neo, launching widebody fleet

Taiwan STARLUX Airlines has taken delivery of its first widebody aircraft - an A330-900. It is the first of 26 Airbus widebodies set to join the airline’s fleet, comprising eight A330neo and 18 A350s. The A330neo aircraft and one A350 are being acquired on lease from ALC, while the airline has 17 A350s on direct order with Airbus. Benefiting from the A330neo’s unbeatable...

AIR CORSICA modernizes its line of uniforms

This Monday, February 21, Marie-Hélène Casanova-Servas, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Air Corsica, joined a crew from the company on the runway at Ajaccio airport for a photo shoot in front of an Airbus A320. She was accompanied by the leaders of the young Cortenese startup, OIA Creazione. The current uniforms of aircrew (air hostesses, stewards, airline pilots) and commercia...

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Korean Air places landmark order for 103 Boeing aircraft

Boeing and Korean Air announced that the carrier has finalized a purchase agreement for 103 aircraft spanning Boeing’s widebody and single‑aisle families. The deal includes 20 777‑9, 25 787...