All Europe news – Page 121
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NewsFrench and Saudi investors pick up 25% Heathrow stake as Ferrovial exits
Spanish infrastructure firm Ferrovial is selling its entire 25% shareholding in London Heathrow airport’s operator, under a £2.37 billion ($3 billion) divestment. The company has disclosed that it will sell its stake FGP Topco – the parent of Heathrow Airport Holdings – to French private equity firm Ardian and Saudi ...
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NewsFirst A321neo emerges from Airbus’s new Toulouse assembly line
Airbus has shown off an A321neo for Turkey’s Pegasus Airlines, the first of the type to roll off the airframer’s new Toulouse production line. The aircraft (TC-RDK) is a CFM International Leap-1A-powered twinjet. “It is the first A321neo fully assembled from our Toulouse final assembly line,” the airframer states. Airbus ...
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NewsEasyJet reaches new long-term base deal with Gatwick
UK low-cost carrier EasyJet has struck a new long-term deal at its biggest base London Gatwick airport.
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NewsAegean shareholders indicate preference for ending Greek government’s right to diluting stake
Aegean Airlines has signalled that its shareholders favour buying back warrants relating to pandemic compensation, rather than allow the Greek government to exercise its right to take a diluting share in the carrier. The Greek government provided €120 million ($132 million) to compensate the company for losses caused by the ...
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NewsBooking patterns recovering after Middle East impact: EasyJet
EasyJet is reporting a similar upturn after a six-week hit on demand for bookings from the impact of the Israel-Palestine conflict as it saw following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine last year.
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NewsProposed UK start-up Ecojet reaches agreement for ZeroAvia engines on electric fleet
Proposed UK start-up carrier Ecojet is intending to equip its fleet with engines from hydrogen-electric propulsion specialist ZeroAvia. Ecojet aims to commence services next year, initially with conventionally-fuelled regional aircraft, with plans to switch to electrically-powered versions once the powerplants are certified. The carrier has reached an agreement covering 70 ...
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NewsEasyJet sees Gaza conflict limiting progress in cutting Q1 losses, but projects positive year ahead
EasyJet says the impact on travel demand from conflict in the Middle East means it does not expect to improve on first-quarter losses covering the three months ending December 2023, but is projecting a “positive outlook” for its full financial year.
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NewsAegean adapts operations as it seeks compensation for A320neo engine issues
Greek carrier Aegean Airlines is expecting to reach, by the end of this year, a compensation agreement with Pratt & Whitney over disruption arising from engine inspections on its Airbus A320neo-family jets. Speaking during a 24 November briefing, Aegean chair Eftichios Vassilakis said the airline had been holding “significant discussions” ...
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OpinionWhy aviation needs a shared approach to tackling climate change
As the industry strives to reach its net-zero goals, it can learn much from the way that safety issues have been tackled collaboratively, argues Carl Macrae.
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NewsWet-lease specialist Hi Fly acquires another pair of A330s
Wet-lease operator Hi Fly has acquired a pair of Airbus A330-200s to expand its capacity, placing them on the Maltese register. Both aircraft are identically configured, says the company, with 269 seats – including 18 in the business-class cabin and 251 in economy. “These modern and reliable acquisitions will further ...
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NewsSikorsky delivers first Polish-built S-70Ms to Romania
The four helicopters are part of an agreement that will see up to 12 Polish-built S-70M Black Hawks supplied to Romania over the next four years, with two more examples scheduled to arrive by the end of 2023.
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NewsAurigny said to be swapping its E195 for more ATRs
Guernsey-based regional carrier Aurigny is to replace its single Embraer 195 with a pair of ATR 72 turboprops, as part of a simplification plan. The airline has six aircraft but the E195 is the only jet in the fleet. Chief executive Nico Bezuidenhout says the plan will “rebalance” the fleet, ...
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NewsKAI, MBDA to explore greater weapons integration on FA-50, KF-21
Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI) and MBDA have entered a cooperation pact for the integration of weapons on KAI-produced aircraft.
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NewsSchiphol operator highlights environmental credentials of new chief executive
Royal Schiphol Group, the operator of Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport, has named maritime contracting figure Pieter van Oord as its new chief executive. Van Oord will take up the post in June next year. Current interim chief Ruud Sondag will step down in March, and the company will be managed over ...
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Airline BusinessSunExpress chief on how carrier is stepping up in scale with new Max 10 order
SunExpress’ introduction of larger Boeing 737-10s as part of its new long-term follow-on order for Max jets underlines chief executive Max Kownatzki’s confidence the leisure carrier can continue to ride the Turkish boom which has seen it perform so strongly since the Covid pandemic.
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NewsFinnair repays government’s €400m loan following share issue
Finnair has confirmed repayment of a capital loan, with interest, to the Finnish government following a new share issue. The carrier drew down the loan of €400 million ($437 million) last year. Its share issue, conducted in November this year, raised gross proceeds of €570 million. Finnair says the government ...
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NewsIcelandair Group still expecting full-year profit despite seismic activity near Keflavik
Icelandair Group is still expecting a full-year net profit despite the effect of seismic activity on tourism flow to the country. The operator states that the geological situation has not affected flights at its Reykjavik Keflavik hub. But Iceland’s meteorological office has been monitoring the area around Grindavik, some 17km ...
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NewsAbsence of hydraulic brake pressure allowed 737 freighter to roll away after pushback
French investigators believe the crew of a Bluebird Cargo Boeing 737-400 freighter did not activate an electric pump to pressurise hydraulics on the aircraft, leaving the brakes non-functional, before the aircraft rolled into obstacles at Paris Charles de Gaulle. The cargo jet (TF-BBM) had been pushing back from parking station ...
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NewsTurkish Airlines unveils AJet brand for low-cost carrier AnadoluJet
Turkish Airlines has today unveiled new branding for to-be-spun-out low-cost carrier AnadoluJet, which will operate under the AJet Air Transportation name from next summer.
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NewsA350 uncommanded altitude deviations persist despite control unit update
Airbus is investigating further uncommanded altitude changes on A350 twinjets despite modifications implemented after a similar situation emerged on the type two years ago. A350 crews had previously been given a revised altitude-selection procedure after investigations found that a failure of the altitude-selector dial – located on the flight control ...