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World Airline Awards 2016: Austrian Airlines is European Champion

Service, Product, Awards First place in the category “Best Airline Staff” Austrian Airlines is once again the European champion in 2016 when it comes to the quality of its service. This year the national carrier was given a top ranking again at the renowned Skytrax World Airline Awards 2016 bestowed upon the winners in Farnborough, […]

Emirates Airline Recognised For Network Strategy at The Airline Strategy Awards

Emirates Airline has been awarded the inaugural Network Strategy award, at The Airline Strategy Awards run by the established air transport industry news and analysis provider Flight Airline Business.  In its 15th year, The Airline Strategy Awards is a widely recognised and respected measure of industry leaders and players who are raising the bar in […]

HNA Aviation to acquire majority stake in SR Technics

Mubadala to retain stake in Zurich-based airline maintenance provider. Zurich, Switzerland: SR Technics today announces that sole shareholder Mubadala, the Abu Dhabi investment and development company, has agreed to sell an 80% stake in the company to HNA Aviation, a global enterprise group based in Haikou, China. SR Technics, a world leading MRO service provider […]

Strata Manufacturing PJSC Awarded Multi-year Contract by Boeing to Manufacture 787 Vertical Fin

Expands UAE’s role in global aerospace industry Expands Strata’s advanced composites aerostructure manufacturing for Boeing Commercial Airplanes Strata Manufacturing PJSC (Strata), the advanced composite aero-structures manufacturing company wholly owned by Mubadala Development Company, announced that it has been awarded a multi-year contract by Boeing to manufacture vertical fins for the 787 Dreamliner family. The agreement, […]

Volga-Dnepr Group and CargoLogicAir bring together three of the world’s most iconic aircraft designers

Three of the world’s most iconic aircraft designers are taking part in a live satellite broadcast in the Cargo Village at Farnborough International Airshow 2016 on 13 July at a special event for customers and partners of Volga-Dnepr Group and the new British cargo airline, CargoLogicAir. Joseph Sutter, Chief Engineer of the Boeing 747, will […]

Strata awarded two Airbus contracts valued at more than USD $1 billion

Strata Manufacturing PJSC (Strata), the advanced composite aero-structures manufacturing company wholly owned by Mubadala Development Company, announced that it has been awarded two contracts to manufacture additional composite components and completed major assemblies for Airbus. The combined deals, valued at more than USD $1 billion, will see Strata become a source for Airbus A320 Horizontal […]

Boeing and Volga-Dnepr Group sign contract for long-term logistics support for Boeing and its partners

Agreement also confirms the acquisition of 20 747-8 Freighters to grow and upgrade fleet. Boeing and Volga-Dnepr Group, a leader in transportation of unique, outsize and heavy cargo, have signed an agreement for the Group’s subsidiaries AirBridgeCargo Airlines and Volga-Dnepr Airlines to provide long-term logistics support for Boeing Commercial Airplanes and its partners using Boeing […]

Volga-Dnepr Group and GE announce global strategic partnership

Strategic cooperation agreement covers the long-term provision of logistics support services to GE using Boeing 747-8F and An-124 freighters and $1.4 billion expansion of TrueChoice Flight Hour agreement Volga-Dnepr Group and GE Aviation today signed a strategic cooperation partnership agreement that will utilize the two companies’ unique strengths and expertise to develop collaborative solutions to […]

Delta, Virgin capture aviation strategy award

LONDON – Delta and joint venture partner Virgin Atlantic were jointly awarded Airline Business Magazine’s Aviation Strategy Award for Finance at a ceremony Sunday night. The award was made in recognition of the financial strategy behind Delta’s 49 percent stake in Virgin, as well as the success of the airlines’ joint venture partnership. Delta by Bill […]

The BLOODHOUND Project teams up with CargoLogicAir for its World Land Speed Record attempt in South Africa

CargoLogicAir, the new British cargo airline, has today signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to be the exclusive air cargo partner for The BLOODHOUND Project’s attempt to set a new World Land Speed Record in South Africa in 2017, and to break through the 1,000mph barrier in 2018. The agreement will see CargoLogicAir fly BLOODHOUND […]