Airbus has renamed the C-Series 100 and 300 to the A220-100 and A220-300 respectively following it taking control of Bombardier. In a ceremony in Toulouse today, Airbus officially welcomed the two newest members of its family of A series Commercial aircraft and the first not carry the traditional 3 designations. Airbus [read more]
The deal which sees Airbus take a majority stake in the company set up to produce Bombardier C-Series jets came into effect yesterday. The Company, C Series Aircraft Limited Partnership is now owned by Airbus 50.01%, Bombardier 34% and Investissement Québec 16%. Airbus SAS, which is a wholly owned subsidiary of Airbus [read more]
Norwegian airline Wideroe is to begin direct flights from Liverpool (LPL/EGGP) to Bergen (BGO/ENBR) later this year. The twice-weekly flights will begin on the 17th August and operate on Mondays and Fridays. Bergen is Norway’s second city and known as the gateway to the Fjords. Surrounded by mountains and fjords Bergen is [read more]
Exeter based regional airline Flybe is to reduce its fleet of aircraft to 70 over the next 2 years in a bid to make the airline more efficient. The move will allow the airline to continue its strategy of reducing its overall fleet and to concentrate on profitable routes only. [read more]
A Flybe (BE/BEE) flight from Edinburgh to London City has carried out an emergency landing at Manchester Airport this morning. Flight BEE1333 left Edinburgh Airport at 7:32am before declaring an emergency and rapidly descending down to 5000ft. The aircraft, a Bombardier Dash 8 Q400 G-PRPL, is understood to have suffered [read more]
US airframer Boeing has reportedly said it is not seeking a change of control at Embraer as it seeks to take over the Brazilian company. Boeing has moved quickly to create a tie-up with Embraer in what is seen as a retaliatory move to counter the Airbus/Bombardier deal which saw the [read more]
Flybe flight BE331 from Belfast City to Inverness has landed at Belfast International Airport with its nose gear stuck up. The aircraft had been holding for nearly two hours North-East of Belfast to burn off fuel and attempt to rectify the problem but the decision was made to divert to [read more]
Flybe flight BE331 from Belfast City to Inverness has landed at Belfast International Airport with its nose gear stuck up. The aircraft had been holding for nearly two hours North-East of Belfast to burn off fuel and attempt to rectify the problem but the decision was made to divert to [read more]
Europe’s largest regional airline, Flybe has seen its shares drop overnight by nearly 20% after investors bail out of what appears to be another European airline hitting turbulence. The drop in shares comes after the airline warned that escalating maintenance and IT costs would mean its half-year profit would be [read more]
When the Monarch Travel Group collapsed in the early hours of this morning and while the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) put its rescue plan into effect another plan was being put into motion, to separate the profitable engineering arm based at Birmingham Airport. Monarch Aircraft Engineering Limited (MAEL), which has been [read more]
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