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South Korea Clears Brazilian-Made Jet for Passenger Service

South Korea on Wednesday cleared a Brazilian-made regional jet for passenger operations here so it can start commercial flights in the first half of 2016. The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport said an aircraft and engine safety validation certificate has been given to Embraer S....

Turkish Airlines firms-up order for 20 additional A321neo aircraft

Turkish Airlines, Turkey’s flagship airline, has firmed-up a commitment for the purchase of 20 additional A321neo aircraft. The airline already has 72 A321neo on order and is now again renewing its confidence in the A321neo as the aircraft of choice to boost its expansion. “As one of...

Flybe Pushes to Use RAF Northolt

Flybe, Europe’s largest regional airline, has called on the British Government to review the Ministry of Defence’s refusal to give consideration to opening up RAF Northolt to a limited number of new Flybe domestic routes, linking underserved regions to London. RAF Northolt, currently used by private executive jets, VIP’s and RAF transports, is 15 miles from the centre of London a...

Finnair to sell its facilities at Helsinki Airport to Finavia

Finnair’s strategic objective is to double its Asian traffic by 2020 from the level of 2010. To enable its growth, Finnair has ordered 19 new Airbus A350 XWB aircraft, which also increase Finnair’s cargo capacity considerably. With a view to the growth of its cargo traffic, Finnair is constructing a new state-of-the-art cargo terminal to be completed in 2017. At the same time, Finavia,...

American rolls out final heritage jet

American Airlines has unveiled its AirCal heritage livery, the final aircraft in its fleet showcasing the liveries of its predecessors. American Airlines The Boeing 737-800 (registration N917NN, MSN 29572) wears a modified version of the livery AirCal introduced in 1981. The Newport Beach, California-based carrier merged with American in 1987. The livery joins the Reno Air&n...

New Rules to Rein in Illegal Flying of Civilian Drones

China will soon publish regulations for civilian unmanned aircraft that will help put an end to irregular flights, according to an industry insider. Ke Yubao, executive secretary-general of the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association of China (AOPA-China), said on Monday that the Civil Aviation Administration of China has drafted a provisional regulation on the operation of light-duty civilian d...

Okay Airways IOSA Certified

Tianjin-based Okay Airways (BK) has recently been certified with an International Air Transport Association (IATA)'s Operational Safety Audit (IOSA) certificate after successfully passing the program on Nov. 18. The IOSA certification audit is an internationally recognized and accepted evaluation system designed to assess the operational management and control systems of an airline. IO...

Indonesia Says Crew Action Caused Crashed AirAsia Jet to Lose Control

Indonesian investigators said on Tuesday that crew action caused a loss of control and the stalling of an AirAsia passenger jet that crashed into the Java Sea last year, killing all 162 aboard. The plane's flight control computer had a cracked solder joint that malfunctioned repeatedly, including four times during the flight, and 23 times the previous year. "Subsequent flight crew a...

Lufthansa Cargo to Undertake Layoffs as Part of Cost-Cutting

Lufthansa Cargo (GEC, Frankfurt Int'l) will be implementing staff layoffs as part of a EUR40 million (US$44 million) cost-cutting drive dubbed 'C-40', CEO Peter Gerber has told German business paper Handelsblatt. While he did not confirm the exact number of employees that would be affected, Gerber said redundancies would be undertaken in a socially acceptable manner - partial retire...

World's Top 10 Airlines Revealed

Air New Zealand has been named world's best airline for the third consecutive year by AirlineRatings.com. The airline won for its "award winning in-flight innovations, record-breaking financial performance, operational safety, environmental leadership and motivation of its staff," according to the Airline Excellence Awards. AirlineRatings.com is an Australia-based safety a...

EVA Orders Up to 24 Boeing 787 Dreamliners, Two More 777-300ERs

EVA Air signed purchase agreements for up to 24 Boeing 787-10 Dreamliners and two additional Boeing 777-300ERs in a signing ceremony with Boeing and GE officials in Taipei on Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2015. All of EVA’s new aircraft will be powered by GE engines.EVA Chairman K.W. Chang, Boeing Commercial Airplanes President and CEO Ray Conner and GE Aviation Vice President and Ge...

Propstar takes off in New Zealand

Jetstar’s New Zealand turboprop operations have taken off with the first regional services getting underway on Tuesday morning. The Qantas-owned low-cost carrier is taking the fight up to Air New Zealand on regional services with five 50-seat Q300s. The first two routes – Auckland-Napier and Auckland-Nelson – commenced on Tuesday, with Palmerston North-Auckland, N...

Air France B772 Near St. Petersburg on Nov. 30, 2015, Engine Shut Down in Flight

An Air France Boeing 777-200, registration F-GSPZ performing flight AF-128 from Paris Charles de Gaulle (France) to Beijing (China) with 269 people on board, was enroute at FL330 about 220 nm east of St. Petersburg (Russia) when the crew needed to shut an engine (GE90) down. Th e aircraft turned around to divert to St. Petersburg, drifted down and landed safely on St. Petersburg's 10R about...

IATA Lowers Long-Term Passenger Forecast

Global air travel demand is expected to soften as a result of negative developments in the world economy. IATA is now forecasting demand to reach seven billion by 2034, instead of stronger figure of 7.4 billion it forecasted earlier. The updated count is based on a 3.8 percent average annual growth rate using 2014 baseline numbers (3.3 billion), a lowered outlook from the 4.1 percent previou...

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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...