The A380 is considered by many to be the pinnacle of luxury air travel, with perks ranging from Shower Spas on Emirates to the super-luxe Residence on Etihad Airways. It’s also one of the largest planes in the sky, with the capacity to fit more than 600 passengers on some of the world’s busiest routes. Now, following recently lifted international sanctions, it seems that Iran A...
Now Concorde flights are a thing of the past, it seems pretty crazy you could once commercially fly from New York to London in around three and a half hours. However, a Canadian engineer has designed a concept plane which he claims could do that journey in just 11 minutes. Charles Bombardier is behind this ambitious and outlandish design he has called “The Antipode.”...
Air Charter Service has started booking aircraft for this summer’s European football championship being held in France. The company has already booked more than twenty aircraft through its London office. The championship kicks off on 10th June 2016. “As soon as the draw was announced on 12th December, people were on the phones, inquiring for teams, supporters, sponsors and t...
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Infrastructure and Regional Development Warren Truss has unveiled the first batch of Bombardier Challenger CL 604 twin-jets which will replace Aerorescue Dorniers for the Australian Maritime Safety Authority’s (AMSA) operations. On Wednesday, Truss inspected the first of four Bombardier Challenger CL 604, which was currently being fitted for sea...
Regional Express (Rex), Qantas and Virgin Australia were among the most punctual domestic airlines in December, government statistics show. Qantas had the highest percentage of on-time arrivals in December, with 88.6 per cent of its domestic flights reaching their destination within 15 minutes of schedule. The figures from the Bureau of Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Economics (BITRE...
Swiss Aviation Consulting is setting up an affiliate in Petaling Jaya, Malaysia. Swiss AeroConsultant (Asia) Sdn. Bhd. was officially incorporated in December 2015. The company selected Malaysia for its central location in the Southeast Asian market and for the availability of qualified staff who, in addition to English and the local Bahasa, speaks the languages of Swiss Aviation Consulting&rsq...
ExecuJet Aviation Group is celebrating another successful World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting at Davos-Klosters last week. ExecuJet saw record traffic and fuelling at Dübendorf Airport, the military airport just 5nm north of Zürich secured for overflow traffic. “The World Economic Forum is one of the busiest times of the year for business jets tra Basil Gamper, FBO m...
Air Seychelles, the national airline of the Republic of Seychelles, is set for the commencement of a once-per-week, non-stop service between Seychelles and Beijing, the capital and cultural centre of China. The inaugural passenger flight HM887 will take off from Seychelles International Airport at 10:40 am on Tuesday 2 February to arrive in the Chinese capital at 1:30 am the following morning....
On January 18 and 19, Sichuan Airlines (SCAL) successively launched direct routes from Tokyo to Chengdu and from Osaka to Chengdu. There are total four flights from Tokyo to Chengdu each week (Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday). Departure of outbound flight 3U8086 is 20:30 Tokyo time, arriving in Chengdu at 00:50 (+1). Departure of inbound flight 3U8085 is 13:20 from Chengdu, arriving in To...
Flights of the MiG-31 fighters have been suspended until the causes of the Monday crash of this aircraft are found out, a source in the Chief Command of the Russian Aerospace Forces told TASS. "The decision to suspend the flights of this type of aircraft has been made until the causes and circumstances of this air accident are established," the source said. According to him, the emerg...
The Moscow Commercial Court on Monday ruled in favor of Aeroflot in a lawsuit against Transaero, ordering the defendant to pay about 2.85 million rubles ($35.6 mln) it owes to the competitor, RAPSI reports from the courtroom. The court dismissed a counterclaim by Transaero that asked to find the loan agreement between airlines invalid. Transaero representative told the court that on the...
Global offshore helicopter association HeliOffshore has commissioned industry expert Jarvis Bagshaw Ltd. to conduct a research study in Aberdeen that uses eye-tracking technology to understand how pilots monitor flight instruments. Twenty-six pilots participated in the first phase of observational study, which seeks to improve pilot performance in the cockpit. Optimizing the training and t...
