Formula 1 cars have started to arrive at Abu Dhabi International Airport, in preparation of this weekend's race. Many flights of the eight scheduled flights have landed from Brazil, where the previous race had been held. The Formula 1 Etihad Airways Abu Dhabi Grand Prix will take place next weekend at Yas Island, marking the final race of the 2015 Formula 1 season.
Copa Airlines took delivery of the 100th airplane to join its fleet, a Boeing 737-800 decorated with a special decal celebrating the airline achieving this important milestone. The airplane, leased from SMBC Aviation Capital, flew from Seattle to its Panama City home base, where it was welcomed by a special ceremony. "We are proud to celebrate this historic achieveme...
Strata Manufacturing will not become Airbus’ sole provider of A330 and A340 ailerons until 2017, a year after the original contractual agreement, following a request by the planemaker to push back the schedule. Saif Al Dabashi, Senior Operations Manager at Strata, told Gulf News on Monday Airbus has asked the composite plane parts maker to delay the timeline by one year because of a &ldqu...
Arbil airport closure due to Russian military airstrikes in neighbouring Syria prompts move. Emirates and Qatar Airways are cancelling flights to Arbil in Iraqi Kurdistan this week after Iraq’s Civil Aviation Authority (ICAA) closed the region's airports due to a military campaign in neighbouring Syria. The ICAA said late on Sunday it was suspending flights to Arbil and Sulaimaniya...
Dowty Propellers’ reset of its production capabilities is fully underway, placing the company on track to ramp-up the manufacture of composite propeller blades following a fire earlier this year at its Gloucestershire headquarters in southwest England. A new interim production site has begun operation at an 80,000-sq. ft. facility in Mitcheldean, Gloucestershire county, which has been ada...
Gulfstream Aerospace Corp. announced that a second and third Gulfstream G500 aircraft (T2 and T3) joined the flight test campaign with successful completion of their initial flights. T2 focuses on flight loads validation, while T3 is the main test bed for the G500 avionics systems. T2 took off at 9:07 a.m. from Savannah-Hilton Head International Airport on Friday, Nov. 20. Flight Test pilots...
Etihad Airways Engineering, the Middle East’s leading aviation maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) provider, has become the first organisation in the Middle East to be granted an extended Part21J Design Organisation Approval (DOA) by the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) to undertake major cabin design and modification. With the new approval Etihad Airways Engineering is entitled...
An Airbus C295W aircraft belonging to the Mexican Navy (SEMAR) and operated by a mixed crew from Airbus Defence and Space and SEMAR has carried out demonstration flights in El Alto, La Paz, Bolivia, one of the airports with the most extreme hot and high conditions in the world. The C295W, which landed at El Alto International Airport, more than 4,000m above sea level, on Tuesday, has...
After three hours of debates on November 19th, the government in Latvia decided to move forward with the previously accepted airBaltic investment plan. Prime Minister Laimdota Straujuma (Unity) told members of the press today that the government will more forward with the investment plan after it is approved by Saeima. Straujuma said that the original agreement has been amended, as there wer...
South African Airways’ (SAA) catering arm, Air Chefs, has received ISO 22000 food safety certification, opening doors for further catering contracts. The ISO 22000 certification which Air Chefs received, makes it the only airline catering company in Southern Africa to have received this global food safety management system standard at all its food manufacturing plants, giving it traceabil...
Brisbane West Wellcamp has become Australia’s latest international airport with the arrival of a Cathay Pacific Boeing 747-8F. The Cathay freighter, registered B-LJA, touched down a little after 1430 local time on Monday from Sydney and was due to be on the ground for about 90 minutes while cargo such as chilled beef, mangoes, pecan nuts and grains from the surrounding Darling D...
Air India has mopped up 7,000 crore rupees by selling nine of its 21 Dreamliner aircraft to a Singaporean lessor, which it has taken back on lease from the company under an SLB (sale and lease back) arrangement. A major chunk of these funds will go into repayment of the bridge loan availed earlier for purchasing these Boeing 787-800s, airline sources said. Under an SLB arrange...
