Qantas and CAE have officially opened Sydney’s new purpose-built flight training centre today, where thousands of new and existing Qantas and Jetstar pilots will train each year. The facility in St Peters near Sydney Airport is now home to five full-flight simulators, three fixed training devices and ten classrooms. Further tranches of training equipment will arrive in the coming years, incl...
RECARO Aircraft Seating was selected by Finnair for a cabin retrofit of 12, Embraer E190 aircraft with the RECARO R1 and R2 Economy Class seats. This will be the second Embraer program to feature the R1 and R2. Cabins will feature a hybrid layout, with R2 in the first 9 rows, typically used for business class and R1 in the rest of the cabin. Seats utilize high-quality materials and embody Fin...
SmartLynx Airlines has joined Avion Express and Air Explore in the Pilot Runway project. Recently launched by BAA Training and backed by its parent company, Avia Solutions Group, the innovative pilot training program offers a financial solution, and a job guarantee at the group's airlines upon successfully completing the training. IATA estimates that half a million pilots will n...
Less than a year after the contract was signed, Airbus Helicopters has delivered the first of up to 82 H145Ms ordered by Germany at its Donauwörth site. The Bundeswehr (German Armed Forces) have named their new H145Ms “Leichter Kampfhubschrauber” (light combat helicopter), or LKH for short. The helicopter's missions include training, reconnaissance, special forces operations a...
The organizers of the Future Opportunities for Seaplanes and Amphibious Aviation, FOSAA25, have confirmed February 11, 2025, as the date for the second outing of the dedicated conference. The event, which will be held at the Biltmore Hotel in Miami, is building on the success of the first event held in March this year, when commercial members of the burgeoning seaplane and amphibio...
With the forging of an alliance between Messe Frankfurt and Zhuhai Airshow Group, AERO Asia 2025 is leveraging new resources to strengthen its position as the leading platform in the Asia-Pacific region for Zero Emission Aviation and General Aviation. An AERO Asia press conference held yesterday at the Zhuhai Airshow kicked off the new Sino-German partnership and preparations for the second e...
EHang has signed a cooperation framework agreement with Zhejiang Sunriver Culture and Tourism Co. to explore an industrial model that integrates low-altitude economy with cultural tourism in China. Under the Agreement, Sunriver plans to purchase 50 units of EH216-S or similar pilotless passenger-carrying aircraft from EHang for its cultural tourism projects based on market development needs....
Embraer and PT Dirgantara Indonesia have signed a MoU aimed at growing collaboration in commercial aviation. The MoU was signed at the Indonesia-Brazil CEO Forum, chaired by Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto, on the sidelines of the G20 Summit in Brazil in the presence of several Indonesian figures including Coordinating Minister for Economic Affairs Airlangga Hartarto, Special Presi...
