Iran has finally admitted to shooting down a Ukranian Boeing 737-800 earlier this week after it was mistaken for a US warplane. Evidence quickly grew showing that flight PS752 had been shot down by a surface to air missile but Iran rebutted the allegations saying it had crashed due to [read more]
Evidence from intelligence and radar sources suggest that Iran shot down the Ukranian Boeing 737 that crashed shortly after take-off from Tehran earlier this week. Suspicion grew when Iranian investigators refused to follow normal convention and hand over the flight data recorders (black boxes) to the aircraft manufacturer Boeing prompting [read more]
British Airways (BA/BAW) will become the only airline flying direct from the UK to Portland, Oregon all year round when it launches its new direct service on 1st June 2020. The new route to Portland (PDX/KPDX) will operate 5 times-per-week on Monday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday from London Heathrow [read more]
Australian airline Qantas (QF/QFA) has announced that it has selected Airbus aircraft to form the backbone of its Project Sunrise project to operate regular non-stop flights from Australia to London and New York. The airline has selected Airbus A350-1000XWB aircraft which is great news for the United Kingdom as not [read more]
Irish budget airline Ryanair (FR/RYR) has told its investors that further delays to the Boeing 737 Max has caused it to make schedule changes for Summer 2020. The airline had been expecting 20 of the type delivered in 2020 but now only expects 10. The Boeing 737 Max is currently [read more]
Global cargo charter airline AeroTransCargo has selected South Wales based Caerdav to train 60 pilots at Caerdav’s 747 simulator training centre at Cardiff Airport. The cargo airline will use Caerdav’s EASA-approved Boeing 747-400 aircraft simulators to carry out half-yearly recurrent training for its 747 pilots which will include emergency procedures [read more]
Chinese carrier Juneyao Air (HO/DKH) is to launch a fifth freedom route from Manchester Airport (MAN/EGCC). From 31st March 2020, the airline will operate a three-times per week service From Manchester Airport to Shanghai Pudong International (PVG/ZSPD) via Helsinki (HEL/EFHK), Finland. The route will be operated by a Boeing 787-9 [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]
A rare visitor to the UK skies graced Cardiff Airport (CWL/EGFF) with its presence today as the Honeywell flying testbed arrived at the Welsh Airport. Boeing 757-200 N757HW is used by Honeywell, amongst other things, to test Jet engines and can carry an engine on an external pod to test [read more]
Australian airline Qantas (QF/QFA) is expected to operate its latest ‘Project Sunrise’ ultra-long-haul test flight from London Heathrow (LHR/EGLL) to Sydney this week. According to sources close to the operation, the airline will be repurposing a the delivery of their latest Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner to carry out a trial run [read more]
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