The investment arms of Boeing and jet Blue are helping fund start-up Zunum Aero, an electric-hybrid plane manufacturer. Zunum are designing and building 10-50 seat planes for trips of up to 1125km (700 miles). They aim to sell 10 seat electric-hybrid planes by 2022. The aircraft would travel at a speed of 545 km/h (340mph)…
The remote island of Saint Helena – in the middle of the south Atlantic ocean – will get its very first scheduled commercial passenger flight on Saturday, October 14th. An SA Airlink Embraer E190-AR on flight #SA8131 (operating for South African Airways) will touch down on one of the most isolated runways in the world at…
Traditionally, ground based ADS-B receivers along with Radar have been used to track aircraft. This method, however, has had its own set of challenges since ADS-B is based on the line of sight principle. Mountains, buildings, vast water bodies and other obstructions can significantly decrease a receivers range and ability to receive transponder emitted signals.…
Qantas has announced plans to use biofuel on it’s LA-Australia routes by 2020. The announcement is the first of it’s kind in Australian aviation. They have partnered with US-based company SG Preston, who will provide 30 million litres (8 million gallons) of jet biofuel a year over 10 years. The fuel is 50% traditional fuel…
Air Berlin has announced its final flight! The very last Air Berlin flight is going to be #AB6210 (MUC-TXL) on Friday, October 27th. An Airbus A320-200 is scheduled to depart Munich Airport at 21:35 local time and arrive at Berlin’s Tegel Airport at 22:45. The carrier’s four remaining long-haul routes will be suspended on October…
German media reports that Lufthansa Group is going to take over 81 Air Berlin aircraft (including subsidiary airlines Niki and LGW) as well as 3000 employees. The internal talks between the two airlines were successful, LH Group and its low-cost subsidiary Eurowings are getting the biggest part of Air Berlin’s leftover. Contracts will be signed…
What will become of Air Berlin routes and aircraft, after the airline is ending flight operations on October 27th? Everything you need to know in this article. Update: Please see: “Air Berlin is gone. What will become of aircraft, routes and employees now?” for the latest information about this topic. Two airlines are still bidding…
Three students have sued two Israeli airlines over what they claim was an ethnically profiled strip search amounting to sexual assault. The three masters students of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem are Palestinian citizens of Israel and were on their way back from Belgrade in October 2016 when they were told they couldn’t board the…
Global airlines carried 3.8 billion passengers last year, according to new statistics published by the International Air Transport Association (IATA). The figure was up 7pc over 2015, and Ryanair was also confirmed as the world’s fourth-biggest airline, having carried 117 million passengers in 2016. The biggest was US-based Southwest Airlines, with 151.8 million. The report shows that…
Insolvent German airline Air Berlin is cancelling all flights from October 28th. The final flight will operate on October 27th before the airline is suspending operations. Air Berlin will cancel their four remaining longhaul routes from Düsseldorf Airport on October 15th, after the airline has already suspended all longhaul operations from Berlin Tegel Airport and…
A dog checked as cargo by a passenger on a Japan Airlines flight from Tokyo’s Haneda airport Monday morning escaped before being loaded onto the plane, causing a runway to be shut temporarily and disrupting a total of 14 flights. The large poodle had been placed in a special basket but when JAL staff tried…
