Snecma (Safran) officially started the construction of a second open-air engine test stand at its facility located at French air force base 125 in Istres, southern France. The new installation, compri...
The first A350 XWB for Finnair has completed its first flight in Toulouse. The aircraft will now enter the final production phase including further ground checks and flight tests. The aircraft is sche...
Flybe is for the first time today introducing an ATR 72-600 series aircraft into its fleet. The aircraft has been delivered to Flybe from the leasing firm Avation PLC, and will operate from Sweden in ...
GE Capital Aviation Services (GECAS) has delivered two leased Boeing 777-300ER aircraft to ANAH for operation by its group airline, All Nippon Airways as part of a purchase-and-leaseback transaction. ...
FLY Leasing has acquired a new 777-200LRF aircraft in a sale and leaseback transaction with an unnamed carrier on a 12-year lease. The new 777 is the firm’s first and joins FLY’s portfolio of 96 Boein...
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) announced industry performance statistics for 2014 showing the growing demand for air transport. Asia Asia-Pacific has clearly established itself as ...
Due to the nation-wide demonstration by Finnish labour unions on Friday, Finnair has cancelled 16 domestic flights. Finnair intends to fly all its other flights, but has warned that considerable delay...
The Spanish carrier Binter, based in the Canary Islands, took delivery of the very first of its 12 ATR 72-600s ordered through two different contracts signed in 2014 and earlier this year. With the in...
Spanish air traffic controllers will strike on two more days over the next few weeks in protest against sanctions imposed by airport operator Aena on 61 controllers, which held a wildcat strike on Dec...
Online travel agents, via trade association ETTSA, have lodged a complaint with the European Commission over a €16 fee imposed on Lufthansa Group customers who book their flights outside of its networ...
Rolls-Royce has been selected by Airbus to provide Trent 700 engines and long-term TotalCare engine service support, worth $700m for five new Beluga XL air transporter aircraft. The aircraft will repl...
Virgin Atlantic Flight VS075, enroute to Orlando from Manchester, UK airport was forced to divert to London Gatwick after it developed a “technical issue”. The airline described it as a “precautionary...
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