A British Airways (BA/BAW) Boeing 747-400 has completed the flight from New York to London in 4 hours and 56 minutes, believed to be the first time its been flown by a transonic aircraft in under 5 hours. According to data from flight-tracking website Flightradar24.com the flight, BA112 left New [read more]
Airbus’ latest super-sized transport aircraft, BelugaXL has officially entered service adding the extra capacity to Airbus’ transport network that it needs to meet its planned increases in production of commercial aircraft. Based on the A330-300 Freighter, the BelugaXL is 63 metres long and 8 metres wide which allows the aircraft [read more]
Vale of Glamorgan based Maintenance company Caerdav has announced a contract with leading low-cost carrier Easyjet. The contract will see Caerdav carry out essential aircraft end-of-lease checks and repairs on a number of Airbus aircraft over the Winter. Easyjet has initially sent two A319 aircraft through Caerdav ahead of their [read more]
London Heathrow Airport (LHR/EGL) has reported its busiest November ever as it prepares for the big Christmas getaway. The airport saw 6.2 million passengers in November helped in part by travellers heading home to the United States of America for thanksgiving. Traffic to the US from Heathrow grew by over [read more]
The Dubai Airshow has got underway and the first day saw just two aircraft orders. In an unusually slow start Boeing received orders for two Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner aircraft from Biman Bangladesh. Although early days the slow start could be indicative of the current market for Middle Eastern airlines which [read more]
US company Spirit Aero Systems has purchased several Bombardier aerospace facilities including its site in Belfast, Northern Ireland. The deal is reportedly worth more than $1bn and will help Spirit Aero Systems diversify its customer base away from US airframer, Boeing. The move will see the Kansas based company become [read more]
With Air New Zealand (NZ/ANZ) ending its London to Auckland via Los Angeles service from October 2020, the time has never been better to use your local airport to fly to New Zealand. Direct flights have never (and not likely to be any time soon) an option to New Zealand [read more]
Vale of Glamorgan based Caerdav (formerly Cardiff Aviation) haas signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with United Arab Emirates based MOBH Group to create a major new aviation centre in South Wales. The deal will see Caerdav setup and run a ‘centre of excellence’ for commercial aviation training at the [read more]
AirBaltic, Latvia’s flag carrier, is to begin direct flights between the Latvian capital Riga and Manchester Airport (MAN/EGCC) from March 2020. The route will operate four times per week and will be flown using one of AirBaltic’s state of the art Airbus A220-300 aircraft. Martin Gauss, Chief Executive Officer of [read more]
Canadian Simulator Technology specialist CAE has opened its latest innovative training centres at London Gatwick Airport (LGW/EGKK) and Manchester Airport (MAN/EGCC) The new centres, which feature the very latest state-of-the-art flight simulators, will provide advanced training facilities for European airlines including Easyjet which has an exclusive pilot training agreement with [read more]
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