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Icelandic cargo carrier Bluebird Nordic discontinues operations
Iceland’s Bluebird Nordic has discontinued cargo operations, ending services on 30 April. The Reykjavik-based carrier says it has “voluntarily surrendered” its air operator’s certificate to the Icelandic civil aviation administration. Bluebird Nordic adds that it is returning all the aircraft in its fleet to their respective lessors. It was owned ...
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Emirates discloses initial routes for first batch of 312-seat A350-900s
Middle Eastern carrier Emirates has unveiled the first batch of nine routes on which it will deploy its new Airbus A350-900 fleet. Emirates has 65 of the type on order and it indicates the first will be operating on the carrier’s network from mid-September. The first 10 jets will be ...
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Cargolux’s full-year figures illustrate return of cyclical freight activity
Freight specialist Cargolux Group achieved a full-year net profit of $286 million, but the figure is substantially down on the previous level of $1.6 billion. Cargolux generated revenues of $2.97 billion for 2023, over 40% lower than its 2022 performance. The carrier says the figures show the “cyclical nature” of ...
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DHC-6 floatplane wing-strike inquiry wrestles with pilots’ contradictory testimonies
Investigators probing a Maldives water-landing accident which damaged a Viking Air DHC-6-300 floatplane have disclosed contradictory testimonies from the pilots over the application of power. The Trans Maldivian Airways turboprop had been approaching Vommuli aerodrome on 16 May last year, following a service from Sun Siyam Iru Veli. It conducted ...
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Aeroflot claims lowest first-quarter net loss in five years
Russian flag-carrier Aeroflot has turned in a first-quarter net loss of Rb6.9 billion ($75.3 million), but states that this is its lowest loss for the period in five years. It says the result – under Russian accounting standards – illustrates a “trend of progressive improvement”. Aeroflot says it achieved the ...
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Scandinavia’s Frost Air obtains own air operator’s certificate
Scandinavian ad hoc and sub-charter carrier Frost Air has been granted an air operator’s certificate from Danish regulators.
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Textron consolidates parts distribution operations in Wichita
Textron Aviation has unveiled a massive expansion of its distribution facility in Kansas to support thousands of Cessna, Beechcraft and Hawker aircraft operating globally.
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Oman Air transformation to be led by Flyadeal chief Korfiatis
Middle Eastern carrier Oman Air has named Con Korfiatis, the head of Saudi budget airline Flyadeal, as its chief executive. Korfiatis will succeed acting chief Nasser Al Salmi, the airline’s chief operating officer, who stepped up to the top post last year in place of Abdulaziz Al Raisi. The appointment ...
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Jazeera blames currency fluctuations as first quarter performance dips
Kuwaiti budget carrier Jazeera Airways is blaming adverse foreign currency effects for a first-quarter net loss of KD2.7 million ($8.8 million). The figure is a reversal of the KD2.3 million profit achieved in the same quarter last year. Jazeera Airways says the result was “mainly due” to the impact of ...
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Colombian investigators probe ATR nose-gear collapse prior to take-off
Colombian authorities are probing a gear-collapse incident involving an ATR 42-500 turboprop preparing for departure from San Andres. The ATR, operated by regional carrier Satena, suffered a collapse of its nose-gear just before taking from Gustavo Rojas Pinilla airport on the Caribbean island territory, which lies east of Nicaragua. Colombian ...
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Royal Jordanian’s aspiration for full-year profit dashed by Gaza conflict
Royal Jordanian Airlines has disclosed that the Israeli-Gaza conflict resulted in a near-JD40 million ($56 million) impact on revenues in the fourth quarter of last year. The flag-carrier turned in a full-year net loss of JD8.7 million, despite efforts to reduce expenditure and cut costs, says chief executive Samer Majali. ...
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Bombardier unlikely to develop clean-sheet jet this decade: CEO
Bombardier chief executive Eric Martel has largely ruled out Bombardier developing a clean-sheet aircraft for at least the rest of the decade, saying competitive dynamics and technological advancements do not support such a move.
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New owner of VIP 787 plays down prospects of imminent part-out
UK-headquartered parts specialist AJW Group insists it has no immediate plans to tear down a recently acquired Boeing 787-9 in order to salvage its components.
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Smoke prompted emergency evacuation of departing Laser MD-82
Venezuelan authorities have disclosed that smoke emitted from the fuselage of a Laser Airlines Boeing MD-82 prompted an evacuation at the gate in Caracas. The twinjet had been preparing for departure to Santo Domingo, in the Dominican Republic, on 28 April. Venezuela’s national civil aeronautics institute INAC states that the ...
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Elysian unveils advisory board drawn from across the ‘aviation ecosystem’
Dutch start-up Elysian Aircraft – which hopes to develop a battery-powered 90-seat airliner called the E9X – has added a swathe of senior executives to its advisory board.
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Russian regulator tells carriers to consider cabin-heat risk in warm climates
Russian regulators are instructing carriers to take steps to avoid cabin discomfort when operating to destinations in warm climates, after an incident involving an Aeroflot Airbus A330-300 in Bangkok.
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Twenty airlines told to amend sustainability claims in EU ‘greenwashing’ crackdown
Twenty airlines have been told by the European Commission to bring their practices into line with European consumer law, after concerns that they are making misleading claims over sustainability. The notification to the carriers – which have not been identified – follows a multinational examination of claims that carbon dioxide ...
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Maersk Air Cargo grows footprint with UK licence bid
Maersk Air Cargo has applied for an operating licence from the UK Civil Aviation Authority.
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Play finance chief steps down after steering IcKr4.6bn capital raise
Icelandic budget carrier Play’s chief of finance, Olafur Thor Johannesson, is stepping down from his position, resigning just a few weeks after the departure of chief executive Birgir Jonsson Johannesson will stay in the role until a successor is appointed. New chief executive Einar Orn Olafsson says Johannesson has been ...
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Red Air MD-82 gear-collapse and excursion traced to shimmy-damper valve leak
US investigators have attributed a Red Air Boeing MD-82’s main landing-gear collapse and runway excursion to ineffective shimmy dampening during roll-out, after the jet touched down in Miami.