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Drones inspecting aircraft is the reality today

There is so many tasks where drone can be a solution. Do you think the aircraft inspection can be done by drone? It happens to be the reality by now. Air New Zealand has teamed up with ST Engineering to trial the use of drones to inspect aircraft! The drone inspection trials Air New Zeala...

Congratulations Japan Airlines, first A350 XWB delivered

Japan Airlines (JAL) has taken delivery of its first A350 XWB at Airbus Headquarters in Toulouse, France. The A350-900 is the first aircraft produced by Airbus for JAL. The milestone event was attended by JAL Representative Director and Chairman Yoshiharu Ueki and Airbus Chief Commercial Officer Chr...

Etihad Airways partners with Swae to launch artificial intelligence powered crowd sourcing and engagement platform

Etihad Airways and Swae have partnered to launch iFikra, an artificial intelligence-powered platform aimed at unlocking the full potential of Etihad’s workforce by enabling every employee to contribute to innovation. Designed to harness the collective creativity of the organisation, the iFikra platform is a pilot aimed at promotingintrapreneurship by allowing...

Aircraft data and enhance predictive maintenance capabilities - Airbus and United Airlines

United Airlines has become the latest U.S. airline to connect to Airbus’ open-data platform, Skywise, following an agreement recently signed between the airline and Airbus. United will leverage Skywise to enhance all aspects of its maintenance and engineering operations on its Airbus fleet. With flexible and visual tools, Skywise enables airlines to store, access, manage and analyse data...

Did You Know How Expensive is Flying?

By G.Ziemelis  Over the last decade, with the rise of low-cost airlines, flying became accessible to the masses - over 4.3 billion passengers were carried on scheduled flights in 2018 and the number is still on the rise. Passengers enjoying the historic-low ticket prices do not always perceive the heavy cost burden associated with flying. The expenses start with the planes themselves. C...

Norwegian Inaugurates Chicago to Barcelona Route

Norwegian launched its first flight from Chicago to Barcelona on June 7. The new Barcelona service operates four times per week, with fares starting at $169.90 in Economy and $669.90 in Premium one way, including taxes. This summer seasonal route ends on October 26, 2019 and is operated by a Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft. Norwegian now offers two nonstop routes from Chicago O&rsquo...

Qatar Airways Celebrates Opening of FIFA Women’s World Cup France 2019™ With Thousands of Fans

Qatar Airways, the Official Partner and Official Airline of FIFA, was delighted and honoured to have played a full part in the much-anticipated celebrations at last night’s kick-off of the FIFA Women’s World Cup France 2019™. Included amongst the many activities supported by the airline ahead of the first fixture between host France and Korea Republic, was a specially designed...

The inaugural transatlantic flight of La Compagnie’s first A321neo

Congratulations! The first single-aisle A321neo destined for La Compagnie, an exclusively business-class French airline operating scheduled transatlantic flights, will commence transatlantic services on 6 June from Paris Orly Airport to Newark Liberty International Airport. On lease from GECAS, La Compagnie’s A321neo is powered by CFM International LEAP 1A new generation engines and f...

Hahn Air Lines launches dedicated website for flight operations

The German scheduled and executive charter airline, Hahn Air Lines, today introduced a dedicated website, www.hahnair.aero, showcasing information about its scheduled routes as well as its business aviation operations. Until now, Hahn Air Lines flight operations content had been embedded in the website of the Hahn Air Group, www.hahnair.com, in the Hahn Air Lines section. Hahn Air...

AVTECH proFLIGHT - the new generation weather and flight optimizer tool

AVTECH proFLIGHT is an easy-to-use iPad app that visualizes flight related weather information like turbulence, winds, temperature, ice and more, all tailored to a single flight’s trajectory and time. Now all pilots can try out the app free of charge for a limited time on AppStore. Niklaes Persson, Head of R&D at AVTECH and a commercial airline pilot himself, explains that the proFLIG...

Sheremetyevo International Airport Celebrates the Launch of Brussels Airlines Route to Brussels

Sunday, 2nd June marked the launch of direct flights from Brussels to Moscow'sSheremetyevo Airport via Brussels Airlines. As we reported on 9 of January, Brussels Airlines moves its Moscow route from Domodedovo to Sheremetyevo because the airport is "among the first choice of corporate travellers."  Brussels Airlines stated Sheremetyevo was an at...

Preventing Illegal Trade In Endangered Wildlife - Qatar Airways

If you put together two definitions - aviation and illegal wildlife trade - you have to think a couple of seconds about connection between them. People loving documentary, and TV series, will tell you pretty fast regarding airport customs dealing with IWT a lot.  Qatar Airways becomes world’s first airline to achieve a new industry standard for the prevention of illegal wildl...

Flying-V to make aviation more sustainable, a joined force - KLM and TU Delft

Sustainability in aviation, a topic discussed last times realy a lot. How and what needs to be done in order to ake aviation more sustainable. Manufacturers, aviation fuel supliers, airlines, everyone is looking for the best way to work on this important issue. Let us present you latest news regarding a new joined force - KLM and TU Delft A new cooperative agreement was signed between &...

10 years of bringing people together - flydubai

The Dubai-based carrier reaches a new milestone and celebrates carrying more than 70 million passengers since its start of operations in 2009. 10 years ago flydubai’s first flight took off from Dubai International bound for Beirut Rafic Hariri International Airport, on 01 June 2009, marking the beginning of a new chapter in the history of aviation in the United Arab Emirates (UAE)....

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