The British Airline Pilots Association (BALPA) has written an open letter to Prime Minister Boris Johnson calling on him to support UK aviation by providing a “clear way out of this crisis”. The airline and travel industry has been one of the hardest hit by the coronavirus pandemic with air [read more]
The Airbus Super-Sized Transport aircraft, the Beluga XL marks the 2nd anniversary of its first-ever arrival into the Airbus Wing facility at Broughton, North Wales today. There was certainly love in the air for new type on valentines day two years ago as crowds gathered to watch its arrival as [read more]
German flag carrier Lufthansa (LH/DLH) has carried out its longest-ever direct flight with a non-stop service from Hamburg to the British Falkland Islands. The flight LH2574 left Hamburg at 21:23 yesterday and arrived into Mount Pleasant this morning at 09:01 giving it an actual flight time of 15 hours and [read more]
Due to the global pandemic Airbus found it had a problem with delivering aircraft dipping to just 14 deliveries in April 2020 so in a bid to keep deliveries flowing, Airbus developed an e-delivery system to help speed up aircraft deliveries. The system, which allows customers to receive their aircraft [read more]
Its 31st December 2020, that final day of a year that has been memorable for all the wrong reasons. A year that we should forget, but we never will. It started as a positive year, in fact it was expected to be a record year for air travel with almost [read more]
Tickets for Virgin Atlantic’s unique Boeing 747 pop-up dining experience will go on sale at 9am tomorrow morning. The event, which takes place on the 12th December at Heathrow Airport, will see guests enjoy a three-course dinner on the upper class deck a Virgin Atlantic Boeing 747-400, known as the [read more]
Tomorrow (3rd December) will see the last ever departure of a Virgin Atlantic (VS/VIR) Boeing 747-400 from Manchester Airport (MAN/EGCC). The moment will come when G-VXLG departs at around 9 am (local) to start its new life in Tel Aviv. The 22-year-old aircraft is the last 747 to leave the [read more]
Airbus delivered the 1500th Airbus A330 airliner on the 21st September to US Airline Delta (DL/DAL) marking the latest milestone in this pioneering and hugely popular product line. In this article, we look back at the beginnings of the A330 and its 2014 reboot. A300 Replacement The Airbus A330 was [read more]
Rolls-Royce for many is the gold standard in jet engines, they power some of the biggest, fastest and most-efficient aircraft in the sky such as the Trent powered Boeing 777 or the mighty Pegasus powered Harrier Jump-Jet. The names alone – Olympus, Proteus, Nene – are names that conjure up [read more]
Airbus CEO Guillaume Faury has warned that Airbus is potentially at risk of collapse due to the ongoing global crisis caused by the Coronavirus pandemic. Speak to French Radio station RTL said that the company must take the right measures to protect the business and if it didn’t then the [read more]
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