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NewsLondon Southend owner to fight legal action over convertible loan deal
London Southend airport owner Esken insists it will defend a legal challenge from Carlyle Global Infrastructure Fund which is alleging technical breaches of a convertible loan agreement between the two. Carlyle entered a seven-year convertible loan pact with London Southend in July 2021. The deal involved a proposed £125 million ...
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NewsAirbus splits corporate and commercial aircraft leadership as Scherer takes key post
Airbus is splitting the roles of chief executive and head of commercial aircraft, appointing Christian Scherer – currently chief commercial officer – to the latter role. Scherer will take on a position which has been held by chief executive Guillaume Faury for the past five years. But Faury says that, ...
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NewsAir Baltic edges towards IPO with appointment of financial advisors
Latvian carrier Air Baltic has recruited financial advisors with a view to examining a potential initial public offering. The Riga-based airline has jointly appointed UK-based STJ Advisors and Baltic firm Superia to review the company and a possible offering process. Air Baltic chief Martin Gauss says a potential stock-exchange listing ...
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NewsSkyUp looks to branch into US operations after securing authorisation
Ukrainian carrier SkyUp Airlines is aiming to develop US wet-lease and charter services, having secured authorisation to operate in US territory. SkyUp commenced services in 2018 as a budget carrier, using Boeing 737s, but its operations have been badly disrupted by the Ukrainian conflict. In a filing to the US ...
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NewsAir France-KLM to order 50 A350s including -1000s
Air France-KLM Group is to acquire 50 more Airbus A350s, which will include both the -900 and -1000 variants. The company has unveiled a planned order which will also include purchase rights for another 40 aircraft. It says the aircraft will be assigned to the Air France and KLM fleets ...
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NewsYakovlev sets up new Moscow training centre for crews of domestic aircraft types
Russian airframer Yakovlev is establishing a new aviation training centre intended to supply crews for a range of domestically-built aircraft types. The centre is located at the Skolkovo innovation and technology park to the west of Moscow, where US firm Boeing also previously opened a training facility. It effectively expands ...
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NewsUkrainian presidential ACJ319 recently refurbished at Baltic facilities
Ukrainian state aviation enterprise DAP Ukraine’s presidential Airbus ACJ319 has undergone a refurbishment project at the facilities of Lithuanian-based J&C Aero and Estonia’s Magnetic MRO. The twinjet underwent cabin modification and renewal, including a “full” refurbishment of the aircraft’s interiors, covering its seating, carpets, fabrics and veneer, as well as ...
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NewsNorway completes first highway landing of an F-35A
F-35A stealth fighters from the Royal Norwegian Air Force landed on a rural highway in Finland before executing a quick transition into take off, testing the concept of distributed air combat operations pioneered by the Nordic countries using small, non-traditional land sites.
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NewsCourt dismisses campaigners’ renewed attempt to overturn Manston airport approval
Efforts to revive the southeast UK’s Manston airport have been boosted by a court ruling dismissing an attempt to quash government approval for the development. The scheme has been the subject of a legal battle after the government granted development consent to the project in 2020. This government decision was ...
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Analysis‘New dawn’ for Britten-Norman, as it opens repatriated Islander production line
Britten-Norman (B-N) has heralded “a new dawn” for its evergreen BN-2 Islander, after formally opening a new domestic production line which will next year complete the first wholly UK-built example of the twin-engined type since 1968.
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NewsAir defence remains top priority for Ukraine aid
While Poland says it will pause the transfer of arms to Ukraine, the USA, UK and Canada continue sending military aid, focusing on ground-based air defence systems.
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AnalysisWhy business aviation leaders are highlighting sector’s environmental gains
With climate activists targeting business aviation, what progress is the sector making towards achieving its sustainability targets?
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NewsE195-E2 take-off incident traced to both pilots' picking wrong intersection on touchscreen
Investigators believe touchscreen ergonomic design contributed to a take-off incident involving an Embraer 195-E2, after both pilots independently selected the wrong intersection for departure. The KLM Cityhopper aircraft was departing from Berlin Brandenburg on 12 September 2021, using intersection L5 on runway 25R. But when the pilots conducted take-off calculations, ...
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NewsVoltAero tests hybrid propulsion system with fuel produced from vineyard waste
In what it claims is an industry first, French aircraft developer VoltAero has flight-tested the hybrid-electric powertrain that will eventually power its Cassio 330 five-seat aircraft using “100% sustainable fuel”.
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NewsCondor to launch flights between Frankfurt and San Antonio in May 2024
The German leisure carrier’s new transatlantic route would be the first non-stop flights between Europe and San Antonio International airport.
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NewsOneworld carrier British Airways seals IndiGo codeshare
Oneworld carrier British Airways is entering a codeshare agreement with Indian budget operator IndiGo to broaden its network on the subcontinent. The co-operation, covering eight destinations, will take effect from 12 October, subject to government approval. British Airways says the routes will be available as codeshares from London Heathrow, mainly ...
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AnalysisHow humility and trust helped Topi Manner lead Finnair out of a double-crisis
When Finnair chief executive Topi Manner makes his recently announced departure from the Oneworld carrier by March 2024, he will step away from the airline industry with a whole new appreciation of crisis management and business transformation.
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NewsEstonian state not a ‘capable’ airline owner and should sell carrier Nordica: audit office
Estonia’s government is not sufficiently capable of acting as the owner of complex aviation businesses, the country’s national auditor has concluded after a review of regional operator Nordica’s business. The national audit office, Riigikontroll, says the government is too indecisive, adding that a sale of Nordica and the associated aircraft ...
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NewsIcelandair enters cadet training partnership with Oslo-based flight academy
Icelandair has tied up with a Norwegian flight school, the Oslo-based Pilot Flight Academy, in a training partnership programme for cadet pilots. Cadets recruited to the scheme will initially be trained at Torp-Sandefjord airport before moving to the school’s US facility at Denton Enterprise airport, Texas, for five months’ flying. ...
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NewsSaboteurs damage An-148s and other aircraft at Moscow Chkalovsky base: Ukrainian government
Ukraine’s defence intelligence directorate claims saboteurs have badly damaged a military Antonov An-148 and Ilyushin Il-20 parked at the Moscow Chkalovsky air base. The directorate also states that a second An-148 received minor damage while the tail of a Mil Mi-28N helicopter was also hit during the 18 September attack. ...