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ERJ-145 suffers runway excursion while landing at Lagos
Nigerian authorities are looking into a runway excursion involving an Embraer ERJ-145 arriving at Lagos airport.
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Israir Group to expand its A320 fleet with dry-lease agreement
Israir Group has reached a firm agreement to lease another pair of Airbus A320s, which will give it a summer fleet of 11 aircraft.
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Court annuls Condor restructuring aid decision over failure to initiate formal investigation
Approval of state aid to German carrier Condor has been overturned by the European General Court because it was granted without a formal investigation procedure.
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Greek carrier Aegean implementing Saudia codeshare pact
Greek carrier Aegean is entering a partnership with Saudi Arabian flag-carrier Saudia, which will include codeshare services.
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US FAA seeks comment on fire-safety conditions for A321XLR’s integral aft fuel tank
US regulators are formally seeking comment on proposed fire-safety conditions to accept the large aft centre fuel-tank design for Airbus’s long-range A321XLR twinjet.
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Transair 737 excursion during Dakar take-off results in injuries
Ten occupants of a Boeing 737-300, operating an Air Senegal service, have been injured after the jet suffered a runway excursion on take-off from Dakar’s main airport.
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Spirit AeroSystems chief believes Airbus partnership will remain intact
Spirit AeroSystems chief executive Patrick Shanahan believes the company will remain a partner to Airbus even as Boeing negotiates a potential acquisition of the aerostructures firm.
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FedEx 767-300ER freighter lands with nose-gear retracted at Istanbul
One of US express carrier FedEx’s Boeing 767-300ER freighters has been involved in a landing incident at Istanbul after its nose-gear failed to deploy.
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Virgin 787 transatlantic SAF flight demonstrated emission and fuel-burn benefits: carrier
Preliminary figures from Virgin Atlantic’s transatlantic Boeing 787-9 flight using 100% wholly-sustainable fuel indicate that it cut carbon and particulate emissions by 64% and 40% respectively, based on a lifecycle analysis.
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Brazil’s Porto Alegre airport remains crippled after storm flooding
Timescales for resumption of flight operations at Brazil’s Porto Alegre airport remains uncertain after heavy rain led to flooding which closed the airport.
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Maldivian seeks consultancy services to evaluate long-haul fleet strategy
Indian Ocean carrier Maldivian is seeking to advance its widebody aircraft project by hiring a consultancy to examine its expansion into long-haul services.
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Poland’s LOT taking three new Embraer jets this summer: chief
Polish flag-carrier LOT’s chief executive, Michal Fijol, has disclosed that the carrier has signed for three Embraer E2 jets which will arrive this summer.
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Etihad engineering arm and other MRO entities absorbed by Abu Dhabi Aviation
Middle Eastern service provider Abu Dhabi Aviation has acquired Etihad Engineering as well as Advanced Military MRO Centre, plus a 50% stake in Global Aerospace Logistics, to establish an operation with broad range of capabilities.
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Unidentified customer orders over 50 A321neos
Airbus has revealed an order for 51 A321neos placed by an undisclosed customer in its latest backlog figures.
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Emirates expanding cabin retrofit to cover 110 A380s and over 80 777s
Middle Eastern carrier Emirates is to expand a cabin refurbishment programme to cover a total of 110 Airbus A380s.
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Icelandic cargo carrier Bluebird Nordic discontinues operations
Iceland’s Bluebird Nordic has discontinued cargo operations, ending services on 30 April.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.