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Boeing and All Nippon Airways (ANA) today finalized an order for three 787-10 Dreamliners, valued at approximately $900 million at list prices. With this order, originally announced as a commitment in January 2015, ANA becomes Boeing’s newest 787-10 customer and first airline in Asia to operate the entire family of 787 Dreamliners.
Virgin flight from ATL to MAN cancelled: foam canon salute instead of water /@FlightEmergency Pic: @MichaelSnasdell pic.twitter.com/dYmUPIVKim — AirLive.net (@airlivenet) March 30, 2015 A packed Virgin Atlantic passenger jet was grounded shortly before its high-profile inaugural flight to Atlanta after a botched ‘water cannon salute’ by airport fire tenders clogged up its engines by spraying…
United Airlines has cancelled its plan to operate the Boeing 787-8 on Newark to Heathrow. The Dreamliner was scheduled to operate from 6th May to 17th August on UA114 and UA111, however will continue to operate on 767-300ER as UA940/941.
Norwegian has moved forward is planned service increase on its route from Gatwick to New York JFK. From the 25th October, the airline will increase the operation from 6 weekly to daily instead of late February 2016. DY7015 departs Gatwick at 1710 and arrives at JFK at 2000. DY7016 departs JFK at 2230 and arrives…
Chinese carrier, Hainan Airlines has planned service from Beijing to Birmingham which will be on a charter basis. The twice a week service will operate from 3rd July to 28th August with a 767. Service will operate on Mondays and Fridays. HU7949 departs Beijing PEK at 0250 and arrives in Birmingham at 0800 HU7950 departs…
The technology exists to physically take command away from a pilot to save an aircraft from imminent collision with the ground and is in operation with the U.S. Air Force. Read the article on AviationWeek
Etihad Airways is now able to provide enhanced access to and from South Africa following the launch of a new daily service between Johannesburg and Abu Dhabi by its codeshare partner, South African Airways. A delegation of senior SAA management, South African government officials and visiting travel trade and media representatives, was welcomed to Abu…
In coordination with the German Federal Aviation Office, other German airlines and the German aviation industry association (Bundesverband der deutschen Luftverkehrswirtschaft), the airlines of the Lufthansa Group are to adopt a new cockpit occupancy procedure as a precautionary measure. Under the new procedure, two authorised persons must be present in the cockpit at all times…
Air crew at Deutsche Lufthansa AG and other European carriers haven’t been required to undergo repeated mental screening mandatory in some countries outside the region and depend instead on doctors uncovering a mental issue in checkups — or on pilots themselves disclosing a condition.
China’s civil aviation authorities have again required that at least two crew members are in the cockpit of a flying civil plane at any given time, after Tuesday’s deadly Germanwings plane crash.