Sukhoi Civil Aircraft Company presented its aircraft with Pininfarina interiors at Dubai Airshow in the United Arab Emirates. From 8 to 12 of November, 2015 the demonstration of Sukhoi Superjet 100 took place as a part of Dubai Airshow program. Aircraft with production number 95065 displayed at the Airshow was manufactured for Interjet, a Mexican airline. Interjet now operat...
FL Technics, a global provider of one-stop-shop aircraft maintenance, repair and overhaul services, is further expanding its portfolio of engine management solutions by launching a new asset management support during engine lease and maintenance. The new service is mainly aimed at the company’s customers in the Middle East, the CIS and Asia Pacific. In terms of its liveline...
Flight attendant job is taken as a romantic one, but just few people know what is required in order to become a "celestial angel" - a lot of patience, hard work and physical strength. During 50skyshades visit to Baku we were honoured to find out some secrets, so we will try to unveil the mysteries of this romantic and at the same time as we are convinced of hard work If yo...
Following a third quarter net loss of US$113.3 million exacerbated by a slowing Brazilian economy, LATAM Airlines Group has announced plans to trim up to US$3 billion in fleet capital expenditure for the period 2016 to 2018. LATAM says it has already managed to save US$1.8 billion through the deferral of certain aircraft originally scheduled for delivery in 2017 and 2018. In a statement, t...
Emboldened by a quick turnaround in fortunes under its new promoters, budget airline SpiceJet has initiated talks with aircraft manufacturers to place orders for at least 150 planes, said Ajay Singh, chairman of India's fourth largest carrier. "It will be a significant sized order. And it will be placed soon," Singh told ETin an interview recently. SpiceJet is in talks to...
Russia plans to resume mass production of the four-engine Ilyushin Il-96 aircraft, the Ilyushin Aviation Complex's chief designer Nikolai Talikov told reporters in the central Russian city of Ulyanovsk on Nov. 6. A year ago, the resumption of mass production of Russian long-haul aircraft was out of the question; on the contrary, Aeroflot was removing the Il-96 from its fleet. In all, the ai...
Two Air France flights headed from the United States to Paris were diverted due to bomb threats, officials said. Both flights landed safely Tuesday night. Flight 65, en route from Los Angeles to Paris, was diverted to Salt Lake City after a bomb threat was called in from the ground, a U.S. government official said. The official did not know if anyone was arrested and was not aware of...
Air Canada welcomes confirmation by the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) representing approximately 6,500 flight attendants at Air Canada and 700 at Air Canada rouge, that its members have ratified an agreement on collective agreement terms for ten years. “This ten-year landmark agreement with CUPE is a historic development which will help Air Canada achieve its gl...
Virgin Australia is extending the use of its Airbus A330-200 widebodies on international routes, with services to Fiji from Melbourne and Brisbane to start in June 2016. The A330 began flying internationally in April when Virgin deployed the aircraft on the Sydney-Nadi route on Saturdays during busy travel periods. As with the Sydney service, A330 flights from Melbourne and Brisbane to Nadi...
Sean Culligan, of Phoenix Aviation Malta (PAM), was at AfBAA highlighting the fact that Africa needs to address its aero-medical solutions. To stress the difficulties PAM faces in the region, he offered an insight into a conversation he had with one director of civil aviation in a West African country about the fate of a patient. “I said, ‘Sir, if this patient is not brought ou...
Virgin Australia chief executive John Borghetti says he expects travel to Bali will rebound once the disruption from the ash cloud from the Mount Rinjani volcano clears up. Thousands of Australians have found themselves stranded in Bali in recent weeks, with both Virgin and Jetstar, as well as a number of other carriers, cancelling flights for safety reasons. While the backlog of passengers...
A San Francisco-based start-up has relaunched a decade-old concept for a five-passenger, piston-powered aircraft called the CO50 Valkyrie and Valkyrie-X. The formal launch on 12 November re-energises Cobalt founder David Loury’s pursuit of the sleek aircraft design featuring distinctive V-style vertical stabilisers and an aft-mounted pusher propeller. “Ten years ago, I had a...
