7 months, 1415 submitted ideas and 14 painting days after the start of the Belgian Icon contest, Brussels Airlines’ fifth iconic plane is ready to carry out its Belgian colors around Europe and beyond. The Smurfs design by the Italian Marta Mascellani, chosen by the public, will represent Belgium on a Brussels Airlines A320 named […]
The alliance between Australia’s Qantas Airways and the UAE, Dubai-based Emirates airline was reauthorized by an Australian regulatory body for a further five years, subject to the condition of addressing continuing competition concerns on the Sydney (Australia) – Christchurch (New Zealand) route. In separate press releases, both Qantas and Emirates have hailed the Australian Competition […]
The Colorado-based startup company Boom Technology has announced that its XB-1 “Baby Boom” flight demonstrator would make its first flight in 2018. It could be the first supersonic commercial flight since the Concorde retired in 2003. The company has already attracted several buyers such as Virgin Galactic and Japan Airlines. The latter even invested $10 […]
Airbus has lost a keenly fought contest with Boeing to sell wide-body jets to American Airlines, the plane maker says. Boeing is now set to supply its 787 Dreamliner to the U.S. carrier, beating Airbus pitch of A330neos. It is the latest blow to the European plane maker’s efforts to boost the sluggish A330neo sales. Discussions with American […]
Qantas’ first non-stop London to Perth took off yesterday, marking the start of the only direct air link between Europe and Australia – and the fastest way of travelling between the two countries. The history-making QF10, carrying more than 200 passengers and 16 crew, pushed back at Heathrow around 1pm yesterday afternoon and landed in […]
The inaugural Air India flight from New Delhi, India, to Tel Aviv, Israel, made history when it flew over Saudi Arabia late on March 22, 2018, after the airline received permission to use Saudi airspace for the route earlier in the month, ending a 70-year-long overflight ban. The Air India Flight 139 took off from […]
With a fleet of 429 Boeing 737, Ryanair is both one of the biggest airlines in the world and a loyal customer of Boeing. However, that loyalty could be changing in a near-future, as Ryanair acquired Laudamotion, a company flying 15 A320, and planning to buy even more. Using a single model of plane is […]
France is under a massive public sector strike on March 22, 2018. Teachers, rail workers and air-traffic controllers took the streets of every major cities to express their disagreement with Emmanuel Macron’s reforms. The consequences on the skies of France are pretty massive: the Direction générale de l’Aviation civile (DGAC), French civil aviation authority, has […]
Russia’s transport agency Rostransnadzor ordered all of the country’s airlines to ground their AN-148 aircraft due to safety concerns. The order comes a month after a deadly crash of Saratov Airlines’ AN-148, which killed all 71 people on board on February 11, 2018. The decision was made after the inspection of Saratov Airlines, said Rostransnadzor chief Viktor Basargin […]
Following the grounding of 11 IndiGo Air320neos due to faulty engines, Pratt & Whitney has announced that it would deliver replacement PW1100 engines in the next 40 days. The first delivery should be made on March 28, 2018. The grounding forced IndiGo to cancel around 900 flights in March, 2018, which represents 3% of its […]
