Airbus Group NV reported a 15 percent gain in annual profit after increasing commercial plane deliveries and announced plans to boost monthly production of its workhorse A320 single-aisle aircraft to 50 a month by 2017. Earnings for 2014 before interest, tax and one-time items rose to 4.07 billion euros ($4.56 billion ) from 3.54 billion…
WICHITA, Kan. – An airplane carrying 67 passengers landed safely at Wichita’s Dwight D. Eisenhower National Airport Wednesday night after reporting landing gear failure about four minutes out from the airport. Link
You can zoom in this 48-megapixel image of the USAF boneyard in Tucson, Arizona—stitched from Bing Maps satellite images—and try to identify all those airplanes. Or you can watch this USAF documentary on how the US stockpiles thousands of planes in deserts around the country to keep the active fleet flying.* Link
International Consolidated Airlines Group has released results for the year to December 31st, 2014, revealing the operating profit €1,390 million. This is up from €770 million in the previous year. Revenue for the year up was up eight per cent to €20,170 million, while passenger unit revenue for the year was down 0.4 per cent…
Bombardier confirmed the first flight of its CS300 for today, February 27, at Mirabel, near Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Link
Thai Airways says one of its planes hit severe turbulence over Thailand and 11 people on board were injured. The Airbus A340-600 was headed to Bangkok from Tokyo at the time and landed safely. He said the injured were taken to a hospital. Airline said in a statement that flight TG641 was carrying 227 passengers,…
A humorous travel blog looking at the worse in air travel. Link
Newark Liberty International Airport just celebrated the beginning of Lufthansa’s daily scheduled Boeing 747-8 Intercontinental service between Newark and the airline’s home base in Frankfurt. As the largest operator of the new Queen of the Skies, Lufthansa now serves the New York metropolitan area with one of the most technologically advanced aircraft in the world…
Qatar Airways has strengthened its relationship with Bangkok Airways with the addition of further code-share routes. The new code-shares come after a year of rapid expansion for Qatar Airways across the globe, with the addition of 12 new destinations throughout the course of 2014, together with frequency and capacity increases across the network.
International Consolidated Airlines Group has released results for the year to December 31st, 2014, revealing the operating profit €1,390 million. This is up from €770 million in the previous year. Revenue for the year up was up eight per cent to €20,170 million, while passenger unit revenue for the year was down 0.4 per cent…
A consortium led by Changi Airports International has been announced as the winner of the tender to acquire shares in Vladivostok International Airport in Russia’s Far East. The consortium also includes Basic Element, one of Russia’s diversified industrial groups, and Russian Direct Investment Fund. Changi Airports International is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the world’s leading…
Ryanair Boeing 737 flight FR2829 from Reus to Brussels Charleroi declared an emergency on February, 25 over the Pyrenees montains chain because of strong turbulence causing injuries to 2 flight attendants (broken ankle to one and a back injury to the other). The flight diverted to Bordeaux where the injured flight attendants were taken to…
