Virgin Galactic owned by Virgin Group and Abu Dhabi’s Aabar Investments PJS, unveiled its newly completed SpaceShipTwo spaceplane, during a ceremony attended by Sir Richard Branson, Virgin Galactic’s Future Astronauts, and partners on Friday. Based on the smaller 2004 X-PRIZE winning SpaceShipOne designed by Burt Rutan, SpaceShipTwo is designed to take a crew of two…
Heathrow Airport has a secret huge, ghost railway station built to serve Terminal 5. The empty station, completed in 2008, already has platforms but the track and signals would need to be installed for it to be operational. Speaking to BBC News, an exclusive tour, Heathrow’s Chris Joyce said: “The scale is absolutely immense and that for…
Central European budget carrier Wizz Air plans to locate its 22nd base in Kutaisi, Georgia, opening with a single Airbus A320 and seven new routes from September. New twice-weekly services from Kutaisi will include Berlin Schönefeld, Memmingen, Milan Bergamo, Dortmund, Larnaca and Sofia, while flights between Kutaisi and Thessaloniki will be flown 3X-weekly. The new…
European airline Air France-KLM has posted its first annual net profit since 2008. The carrier reported a net profit of €118 million for 2015, compared with a €225 million net loss the year before. The company’s overall sales rose 2.8 per cent to €89.82 billion last year. More
Airbus has added three new A350 stations at its Toulouse facility as the manufacturer begins final assembly of the first of three A350-1000 flight test aircraft while it increases production of the A350-900. The first A350-1000 has entered the final assembly line and is expected to begin test flights before the end of 2016, Airbus…
UA82 from Newark to New Delhi turned around near Moscow and diverted to London Heathrow with a technical fault The flight has since landed, and as a result another 777 (N78001, originally at Brussels, flight UA998 BRU-JFK cancelled, flew BRU to LHR) will fly the passengers from Heathrow to New Delhi.
Spokesperson for the Ministry of Defence has said that RAF Typhoons have been scrambled to intercept two Russian bombers heading towards UK airspace. The typhoons were dispatched from RAF Coningsby in Lincolnshire following the security alert. Spokesperson: “situation on-going and this is not uncommon: BBC News says the UK’s airspace extends 12 miles from the UK coastline.…
Air Canada today announced that it has entered into a Letter of Intent (LOI) with Bombardier Inc. for the acquisition of up to 75 Bombardier CS300 aircraft powered by Pratt & Whitney PurePower® PW1500G engines as part of its narrowbody fleet renewal plan.
AFP: Aerospace and transportation company #Bombardier says it is to cut 7,000 jobs — Sky News Breaking (@SkyNewsBreak) February 17, 2016 Correction: Aerospace and transportation company #Bombardier says it is to cut 7,000 jobs – 1,340 jobs will be lost in the UK — Sky News Breaking (@SkyNewsBreak) February 17, 2016 Aerospace firm Bombardier to…
The United States and Cuba signed an agreement on Tuesday morning to resume commercial air traffic for the first time in five decades, starting the clock on dozens of new flights operating daily by next fall. U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx and Cuban Transportation Minister Adel Yzquierdo Rodriguez signed the deal in a ceremony at…
The latest airline-safety statistics show that for all of 2015, not a single passenger died from a jetliner accident anywhere in the world. Capping years of unprecedented improvements in overall commercial-aviation crash rates, data released Monday by the airline industry’s leading international trade association show what had been considered an unreachable goal: zero fatalities from…
