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Finance and economyAegean Airlines: 1H2018 financial results
The Greek carrier has introduced eleven new international routes
The Greek Aegean Airlines announced its first half 2018 (1H2018) results with consolidated revenue at € 455.7m, 1% higher compared to the respective period in 2017 and net losses narrowing to € 13.8m fro... more
IndustryPhoto. Singapore receives first A-330MRTT airplane
It made its official public appearance at the RSAF's 50th anniversary parade
Airbus has delivered the Republic of Singapore Air Force’s (RSAF) first A-330 Multi Role Tanker Transport (MRTT). The airplane made its first official public appearance on Saturday 1 September 2018 at t... more
AirportsDaxing Airport: 8 thousand workers at work to respect the times
The opening is scheduled for June 2019
Today at Daxing International Airport, which will open to the public in June 2019, a visit was made to Li Jianhua, the Executive Director of the project made and built by the Beijing Urban Construction... more
AccidentsPakistan: Sea King of the Navy crashes
Fallen into the sea due to unknown causes. One dead
A Westland WS-61 Sea King helicopter from the Pakistan Navy crashed into the Arabian Sea today causing the death of one of the seven crew members. The Navy spokesman confirmed the incident and explained... more
DefenseUSA: published report that warns the Air Force
Too many long operations will create operational problems in the future
The report published by "Rand" on the future of the US Air Force (Usaf, Us Air Force) confirmed the concerns of senior air force officials about the possibility of maintaining current operating rhythms... more
AerospaceRussia: "We will no longer carry NASA astronauts from 2019"
The goal is to become the space superpower
Following the incident occurred on board the International Space Station (ISS) where an impact with a very small space debris caused a 2 mm hole in the Soyuz spacecraft, provoking a loss of pressure inside... more
AirlinesAirAsia: cancelled the jv to create a low-cost in China
Political frictions underlying the decision?
AirAsia announced that it had abandoned plans to form a joint-venture with the Chinese financial company Everbright Group -under government control in Beijing- which would serve as the basis for creating... more
AerospaceISS: apprehension for a loss of internal pressure
To cause it a small 2 mm hole immediately sheltered by the astronauts
Yesterday in the International Space Station (ISS) there was a great apprehension since the pressure began to fall slowly due to a hole -singled out in the morning by the astronauts- about two millimeters... more
AccidentsSmolensk plane crash: Poland calls for new expertise
Moscow responds: already explored and rejected hypothesis on board
The investigative committee investigating the plane crash of the presidential flight of Poland crashed near Smolensk in Russia in 2010 and which led to the death of all 96 people on board -including President... more
DefenseIran: short-range ballistic missiles deployed in Iraq
They could hit Israel and US bases
Iran, according to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, would have installed short-range ballistic missiles into Iraq, which could put all regional enemies -Israel and US military bases in the Middle... more
DefenseUSA: permanent the presence of two B-52H in the skies adjacent to China
Aircraft in flight to deter any possible action
While Russia and China are preparing for the "Vostok-2018" exercise -which should involve 300,000 soldiers- and the Beijing government continues its assertive policies towards countries bathed by the East... more
AirlinesWizz Air undertakes Ukrainian expansion from Billund
The low-cost confirms it from next March
Already serving Billund Airport from eight destinations in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Lithuania, Poland and Romania, and soon Austria, Wizz Air has confirmed that from 2 March 2019 it will add Ukraine to... more
AirlinesRAM announces new Casablanca route
It will be served by a Dreamliner plane
Moroccan national carrier Royal Air Maroc (RAM) has announced it will launch the first-ever Miami-Casablanca route on April 3, 2019.The destination will be operated with a B-787/8 Dreamliner aircraft. The... more
IndustryEmbraer extends pool agreement to support LOT's aircraft fleet
For its fleet of 34 E-Jets
Embraer Services & Support and LOT Polish Airlines, the national carrier of Poland, have signed an extension of the pool agreement to support LOT’s fleet of 34 E-Jets. In a multi-year deal, industry’s comp... more
AirlinesRyanair recognizes Forsa union
For Irish based cabin crew
Ryanair announced today in a note that it has signed its fourth cabin crew union recognition agreement with Forsa, who will be the representative body for airline’s directly employed cabin crew in Ireland.The c... more
CargoEthiopian Airlines launches cargo route at Miami
Twice-weekly flights will bring first African freighter service to the US city
Ethiopian Airlines launched last August 29 the first of two weekly freighter flights between the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa and Miami, creating the first-ever cargo-only route between the African... more
ReportEthiopia (2): a DHC-6/300 aircraft crashed
Established the type of fallen plane. 18 victims confirmed
The first confirmations arrived on the plane crash that took place this morning in Ethiopia. At first it was uncertain whether it was a plane or a helicopter, now it is clear that it is a de Havilland... more
IndustryFirst B-737 MAX plane delivered to GOL
The Brazilian airline also received the second one this month
Boeing and GOL Linhas Aéreas Inteligentes celebrated the unveiling of the carrier's newly outfitted 737 MAX 8 during a celebration in Sao Paulo. The leading Brazilian carrier also announced plans to fly... more
AccidentsEthiopia. Aircraft crash: 18 dead
The Ethiopian Air Force transport crashed during a flight
A military aircraft from the Ethiopian Air Force crashed this morning at 100 kilometers from Addis Ababa while flying from the city of Dire Dawa to that of Bushoftu. At least 18 people are on board and... more
Civil aviationAirplanes and results. IATA: solid traffic growth in July
Record load factor
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) announced healthy global passenger demand for July with all regions reporting growth. Total revenue passenger kilometers (RPKs) rose 6.2%, compared to... more
DefenseFrom tomorrow Russian Navy exercise in the Mediterranean
Engaged 25 naval ship and at least 30 aircraft
After deploying ten surface naval units and two submarines in front of the coast of Syria, the Russian Minister of Defense has announced that in the next 8 days they will be engaged in an exercise in the... more
CuriositiesUber Air: in 2020 the first flights to the United States
The company's idea would be to expand the service in other states as well
The Uber experimentation on flying taxis will start in 2020 in Los Angeles and Dallas, but the US company -as announced during an event in Japan on air transport- would soon expand it in France, Brazil,... more
AerospaceUSA: the revival of the lunar missions will start next year
It will be the first operational test of a new carrier rocket
In addition to the helicopter drone to be sent in March to Mars for NASA a new series of space exploration missions will soon begin. This is what emerged from the presentation at the Johnson Space Center,... more
AirlinesFailed SkyWork: Alitalia proposes a connection with Geneva
12 flights a week from Milan-Linate to the Swiss city
Yesterday, the Swiss airline SkyWork announced the suspension of all flight operations after the failure to find a commercial partner, which would have allowed it to avoid bringing the books to court and... more
IndustryRussia: there will be a military variant of Illyushin Il-114?
The Russian armed forces seek an electronic and attack warplane
The new electronic warfare and ground attack aircraft (as a gunship) from Russia will probably be developed based on Ilyushin Il-114/300. The twin-engine turboprop aircraft developed in Russia in the 1980s... more
IndustryUkraine: successfully tested the Neptun cruise missile
It could hit affect Moscow
The Ukrainian defense system manufacturer Ukroboronprom announced yesterday that it successfully carried out the test of the new Neptun anti-ship cruise missile, which hit a target 100 kilometers from... more
DefenseBrazil: the "new" Atlantic helicopter carrier arrived in Rio de Janeiro
It is the former HMS "Ocean" purchased for GBP 80 million from the UK
After being dismissed in March 2018 by the Royal Navy the former HMS "Ocean" arrived at the week-end in Brazil, where it will be used by the Brazilian Navy as a helicopter carrier with the name of the... more
AirlinesLatam: 1200 layoffs in Brazil from next week
Move made mandatory by the budget increasingly in red
The Chilean holding LATAM, one of the largest air groups in the world, will fire about 1200 employees in Brazil to reduce costs and replace them with workers hired through an external service company.... more
AerospaceUK: "plan B" is ready for a britmade satellite system competing with Galileo
The will of the Government, however, would be to remain in the EU project
The United Kingdom announced today that the Space Agency will begin work on developing a satellite system that is a competitor to the EU's Galileo project, to ensure its national security if after the... more
Military aviationMattis again threatens Turkey to block the F-35 delivery
In the meantime however the first Turkish pilot flew on the plane
The US Secretary of Defense James Mattis is back today again on the purchase of the S-400 anti-aircraft missile defense system by Turkey, expressing once again its deepest concern because: "They are bringing... more
DefenseUSAF: the new training aircraft will be announced by the end of September
Favored the "clean-sheet" presented by Boeing and Saab. The quotation for the T-100 is down
After the US Air Force (USAF) has received all the offers from the various aerospace industries involved in the tender for new generation advanced training aircraft, in the coming weeks it will be -as... more
AirlinesLaudamotion: aircraft fleet doubling for Summer 2019
New personnel director from next Saturday, among the newness
Laudamotion, Austria’s low-fare airline, announced today that it would double its Airbus fleet from 9 to 18 aircraft in Summer 2019 following the completion of Ryanair’s purchase of 75% shareholding in... more
Science and technologyDrones: from Caltech the UAS to remove the birds from the airports
Driven by an algorithm that allows it to minimize the risks of collision
A system designed at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) to try to definitively solve one of the most serious problems for civil aviation, namely the swarm behaviour that fly near airports... more
Civil aviationWill become mandatory defibrillators on board the aircraft?
An important question in the light of what happened yesterday on the Beirut-Rome flight
On yesterday's Alitalia plane flying from Beirut to Rome where a child died -from the first news it looked like a child- due to a heart attack, caused by a serious kidney disease, for which the parents... more
Military aviationUSA: first operational tests for the F-35C on board of the USS Lincoln
Exercises to evaluate skills in high intensity missions
For the first time on board of the USS "Abraham Lincoln", the F-35Cs are used into a Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA-125) for conducted operational tests along with the other aircraft on board the US Nimitz-class... more
CuriositiesToday the 2016 NF23 asteroid will pass close to the Earth
It is bigger than the pyramid of Cheops, but it will remain at a safe distance
The asteroid 2016 NF23 is bigger than the pyramid of Cheops, which will pass near to the Earth today. NASA has classified it since its discovery as "potentially dangerous", but its trajectory does not... more
AirlinesRyanair: despite the agreement with Italian Anpac, the risk of strikes is concrete
Heavy criticism of the agreement by two other unions
Following the signing of the agreement between Ryanair and ANPAC (Italian Professional Association for the Civil Aviation), to which 300 of the 450 Italian-based pilots take part, protests against the... more
CargoAircraft and transport. Iata: freight growth continues in July
Up 2.1% recorded last month
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) released data for global air freight markets showing that demand, measured in freight tonne kilometers (FTKs), rose 2.1% in July 2018, compared to the... more
CargoShareholder Lufthansa Cargo to add a new B-777F aircraft
AeroLogic's fleet to grow to eleven freighters
AeroLogic will receive a new B-777F in January. Shareholder Lufthansa Cargo will lease the jet from Boeing specifically for this purpose. The fleet of this equal partnership joint-venture with DHL Express... more
Military aviationQatar: work is soon to expand two military airports
Required to host the Rafale, the F-15 and the Typhoon aircraft
Qatar has decided to expand two military airports to accommodate the new aircraft that will soon be supplied to the armed forces of the small Persian Gulf State, namely the Rafale, F-15, and Typhoon airplanes.... more
DefenseRussia: 300,000 soldiers for the Vostok-2018
It should be comparable to the Soviet exercise in 1981
More than 300 thousand soldiers and 1000 aircraft will take part in September in one of the biggest exercises in the world, Vostok-2018 in Russia. Minister of Defense Segei Shoigu has confirmed it yesterday.... more
AirportsSydney Airport: a 51% increase in passengers is expected over the next 20 years
From 2019 work will start at the airport terminals
At regard of Sydney airport -which saw 43.4 million passengers in transit last year- it was envisaged in the Master Plan 2039 -released yesterday- a 51% increase in passengers over the next 20 years, despite... more
UAS-DronesUnited States: MQ-9 Reaper early deployed in Romania?
Built a new hangar that could accommodate the drone
In the Câmpia Turzii Air Base in Romania, the US Air Force (USAF) could soon send the UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) MQ-9 Reaper, for ISR (Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance) operation in Eastern... more
ReportLos Angeles: man climbs over the fence and enters the runway
Hole in the airport security system
Yesterday at 1:40pm local at the Los Angeles International Airport a man climbed over the perimeter fence -despite being topped by barbed wire- and entered the airport runway, running in the direction... more
AirlinesAir France-Klm. Unions: "5.1% more salary or strike"
From the beginning of September Smith will try to find an agreement
The French trade unions have reiterated their request to increase the salaries for workers of the Air France-Klm Group by 5.1%, favoring the chances that soon the new CEO Benjamin Smith will also have... more
AccidentsGreece: T-2E Buckeye training aircraft crashed
The pilot died and co-pilot unharmed
Breaking news. A North American T-2E Buckeye intermediate training aircraft of the Hellenic Air Force crashed this morning around the 8:50am just outside Sparta, in the Peloponnese, after taking off from... more
AccidentsAircraft crash in Nepal: Dash-8 falled down due to pilot
The commander was upset and cried for a large part of the flight
The incident involving the Bombardier Dash-8 Q-400 aircraft of US-Bangla Airlines connecting Dhaka with Kathmandu on March 12, 2018 -that provoked the death of 51 of 71 people on board- was caused by the... more
AirportsMexico: referendum about the airport of the Capital at the end of October
Announced after the delivery of the technical report to the new president
In the last week of October the Mexican referendum should be held to decide whether or not to approve the construction of the new "fharaonic" Mexico City airport. A decision taken and announced to the... more
AirlinesItalian Anpac-Ryanair (2). Pilots vote in favour of CLA for Italy
Italy accounts for 20% of its fleet and pilots
Ryanair today (28 Aug) confirmed that its Italian pilots had voted overwhelmingly in favour of a new Collective Labour Agreement (CLA) which was negotiated and signed between the airline and ANPAC (Italian... more
Civil aviationItalian Anpac: first Ryanair pilots contract based in Italy
Signed and approved by majority, after eight months of negotiations
After 8 months of negotiations Anpac (Italian Professional Association of Civil Aviation) announces today that it has signed the first collective labor agreement for the pilots employed by the company... more