Flightglobal

Latest News list page now available

Wed, 28 Sep 2011 12:18:10 +0000

We've been getting some helpful feedback following our first 32 hours live with the new flightglobal.com.

One of the common themes is that visitors to the site miss having a simple list of the latest news stories.

People have been saying that they find this helpful for rapidly catching up on stories that might have been published over several days since they last visited the site.

As mentioned before, Flightglobal Pro subscribers have access to an advanced "My News" section, which allows them to create personlised news streams to fit in with their interests.

We do intend to develop a similar experience for non-Pro people in time, although obviously only displaying non-Pro news content.

However, for the meantime in order to keep news junkies happy, we've quickly knocked up a simple "Latest News" page that lists the latest 210 non-Pro news stories published.

This list would typical cover a two-week period of publishing, so even if you've been away on vacation you should still be able to rapidly catch up on the period you've missed.

And if you need to navigate to the Latest News page in future without coming back to this post, you can find the link on the main News page underneath the "In focus ..." section:

Flightglobal announces the launch of a new training site

Thu, 21 Apr 2011 15:45:36 +0000

Flightglobal prides itself on providing you with the tools to enhance your career, and so is pleased to announce the launch of a brand-new training site dedicated to providing you with the best courses from the world's leading training providers. 

Flightglobal Training provides the latest aviation and aerospace training courses including Flight Training, Air Safety, Maintenance and Management.   

Whether you're an aspiring engineer embarking on the first steps of your career or a pilot looking to make that next step, Flightglobal Training has the course for you.   

Key features include:  

Search by discipline, including Flight Training, Air Safety, Academic, Maintenance and Management courses, and get an RSS feed of that search  .
Registration is free and you can upload your CV, set up email alerts, subscribe to RSS feeds and apply for the latest aviation and airline training courses online  .
Apply in minutes to the best aerospace and aviation courses listed by the biggest training providers.

As well as this exciting new addition to Flightglobal, remember to check out Flightglobal jobs, which allows you to search for more than 1,500 live vacancies around the world.

One small step for the MRO channel - one giant leap for Flightglobal

Fri, 29 Jan 2010 10:04:22 +0000

Today we've deployed a new-look MRO channel page to replace our old-style Maintenance channel page.

It's our first major code release to the main part of the site since October 2009.

So why has it taken so long to jazz up one channel?

Well, the new MRO channel (and associated articles and article listing pages) represent the first significant step towards a new vision for Flightglobal.

That is to combine the popular free content (which has helped attract over 1.2 million visitors each month) with our world-class professional news and data services (some of which are currently under different brands or on separate websites).

We are going to bring them all together in one place in order to build an experience for visitors and members of Flightglobal that is tailored exactly to their needs, be that entertainment, information or business critical analysis.

The professional side of the site will come under the brand Flightglobal Pro, with the orange Pro logo representing content and services that are paid for and subscriber-only.

Where the MRO channel fits in is that it's the first of our channels to have the Pro news content switched on. As we go along we'll be introducing the Pro experience to other channels and also more stuff to Pro, like Pro data, more functionality and greater personalisation options.

We understand that mixing up free and paid-for content has the potential to confuse visitors to the site who are or aren't entitled to see Pro content.

To try and sidestep that usability issue, visitors to the MRO channel will now start to see a series of icons (purple for free content, orange for Pro content) which will help guide them to other stuff they might like or find useful, as well as indicate what they can access or what they've paid for.

So today is more than just a fresh look for the MRO channel; it's a beta launch for a brand new Flightglobal which includes a beta launch for Flightglobal Pro.

As one British mobile telecoms outfit says: The future is bright, the future is orange ...

Week on the Web published in 2 February issue

Thu, 28 Jan 2010 12:00:00 +0000

We're tackling the Singapore air show in an all new exciting and different way this year. We're launching the Interactive Flight Daily News (IFDN), a new digital version of the traditional show daily magazines.

Sign up to this now for free so you can see what's going on if you can't make it to the show. You'll see hundreds of images and video stories which will also be showing on Flightglobal, where you can follow the team on twitter, read the latest blogs, see the daily flying display schedule and click on the image to see our interactive aircraft on static display graphic which is heatmapped to show aircraft profiles, including the first ever exhibit of the Airbus A330-200F.

Stefan the Pilot will be at the show being photographed in the best locations with the great and the good from the industry so make time to come and say hello to him.

The Webbies 09, Flightglobal's Aviation Web Awards shortlist has been announced. Find out if your company has made the grade. The bronze, silver and gold winners will be announced during the first week of February. Good luck from all at Flightglobal.

Week on the Web to be published in 25 January issue

Wed, 20 Jan 2010 17:00:00 +0000

Check in the archive to see what Flight was reporting on 100 years ago this week, like the construction of the British Military Aeronautical's new dirigible shed at Farnborough and aerial propellers and "what makes them interesting". The archive also records the deaths of "martyrs who have sacrificed their lives to the new art of flying".

See the video channel currently highlighting four videos that look back at Flight 1549, one year on. One video shows Capt "Sully" testifying on the challenges on aviation before the House Aviation SubCommittee.

The Airline Business Blog posts a piece about the recent Haitian earthquake. Lori Ranson says that numerous carriers that have offered help and aid but the Port au Prince airport continues to face challenges in handling the large volume of relief efforts. Humanitarian agencies are having trouble gaining access to the airport. There's a great image uploaded to AirSpace showing two hard workers keeping the windscreen of an A330 clean before takeoff.

Dirigible shed

Propellers http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1910/1910%20-%200040.html

Martyrs http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1910/1910%20-%200034.html

Video http://www.flightglobal.com/pages/video.htm?navigationid=531&slotid=47

Haiti

http://www.flightglobal.com/airspace/media/commercial_aviation/a330-ci-in-cleaning-process-52071.aspx

Get Flightglobal sector updates on Twitter

Wed, 19 Aug 2009 10:55:49 +0000

If you're one of the growing Twitter fans and users, then you may already be following some of the Flightglobal Twitter accounts or individual journalists.

In addition to those, we've set up some sector-specific Twitter accounts for people interested in receiving more focussed updates via Twitter (or Twitter-related apps such as TweetDeck).

They're listed here:

FG_Defence
Latest news from the Defence channel on Flightglobal

FG_Aircraft
Latest Aircraft news from Flightglobal

FG_AirTransport
Latest Air Transport news from Flightglobal

FG_Airlines
Latest Airline news from Flightglobal

FG_Safety
Latest Safety news from Flightglobal

FG_UAVs
Latest UAV news from Flightglobal

FG_Helicopters
Latest helicopter news from Flightglobal

FG_BizAndGA
Latest business and general aviation news from Flightglobal

FG_Spaceflight
Latest spaceflight news from Flightglobal

FG_Maintenance
Latest maintenance news from Flightglobal

FG_AirlineBiz
Latest Airline Business news from Flightglobal

Runway Girl spearheads new In-Flight Entertainment and Connectivity channel

Mon, 01 Jun 2009 15:32:30 +0000

Flightglobal has today launched a brand new channel focussed on in-flight entertainment and connectivity systems.

The IFE channel will feature the latest news and developments in the sector, as well as videos, blogs and features.

The channel will be spearheaded by Flightglobal Senior Editor Mary Kirby, who also writes the popular Runway Girl blog.

Mary Kirby explains the launch of the new channel: "In recent years there has been an explosion of interest and usage in in-flight entertainment and connectivity (IFE&C) as airlines seek new ways to enhance their ancillary revenue streams and differentiate their products from competitors.

"The IFE&C market is thriving despite the current global economic slump. Recognizing the importance of this market, Flightglobal today launches a dedicated IFE&C web channel. We hope to become your destination of choice for IFE&C news and views."

New Flight Tests Channel for Flightglobal PIREPS

Wed, 04 Mar 2009 13:55:50 +0000

Probably should've done this a long time ago but, as they say, one thing at a time. Anyway, we've set up a new Flight Tests channel on the site.

And we've retrospectively gone back and tagged previous flight tests so they're all grouped in the one place.

These PIREPS are obviously great stuff - recent test flights include the Phenom 100 and Pilatus PC-21.

You can subscribe to our flight tests on RSS ... .

Incident Watch on the Safety Channel

Fri, 12 Sep 2008 16:59:41 +0000

We've introduced a new service on the Safety Channel called Incident Watch.

It's compiled by our Flight Data Team who diligently research the web every working day for all reported incidents to any powered aircraft (GA and above, including military).

Incident Watch is a sample of the events which they find and add to the World Incident Database.

Extracts and analyses from the World Incident Database may be purchased from Flight Insight

New environment channel

Tue, 27 Nov 2007 17:06:32 +0000

We’ve added an additional channel to our current navigation on Flightglobal - Environment ...

The environment and all its associated issues is a subject that simply grows more critical everyday and it more than deserves its own dedicated area on the site.

At present the channel contains editorial material from the Flight team, as well as a widget showing the latest industry-wide covergae on carbon emissions.

The plan for the future is to augment this coverage with sector-specific blogs, aggregated content from other industry sources, aviation and the environment reference tools and much more.

In addition, we will be splitting down the broad environment label into more focussed labels such as technology and carbon emissions in order to improve the user’s experience.