All Europe news – Page 89
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NewsNATO confirms Dutch prime minister Rutte as its next secretary general
NATO’s North Atlantic Council has officially selected Mark Rutte – prime minister of the Netherlands – as the successor to its long-serving secretary general, Jens Stoltenberg.
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NewsGo-around flap jam resulted in diverted 737’s landing below minimum fuel threshold
Danish investigators have determined that the additional fuel consumption arising from stuck flaps resulted in a diverted Boeing 737-800’s landing at Copenhagen with less than the required minimum fuel reserve.
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NewsSwitzerland will domestically assemble four F-35 stealth fighters in deal with Lockheed
Switzerland will domestically assemble four of its ordered F-35A stealth fighters itself as part of a knowledge and technology transfer deal, the country’s Federal Office for Defense Procurement Armasuisse said on 25 June.
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NewsBangladesh receives its last ex-RAF C-130J airlifter from Marshall
Bangladesh has taken delivery of its fifth and final ex-Royal Air Force Lockheed Martin C-130J tactical transport from UK company Marshall.
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NewsVolotea and Abra sign JV with eye on Air Europa remedies at Madrid
Spanish low-cost carrier Volotea and Avianca parent company Abra Group have signed a joint-venture agreement to act as a “remedy taker” should IAG complete its acquisition of Air Europa.
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NewsAirbus trims full-year delivery forecast and pushes back A320neo ramp-up schedule
Airbus is trimming its full-year delivery forecast over continuing supply-chain problems, and pushing back the schedule for its A320neo production ramp-up.
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NewsUral Airlines and Russian airports operator feature in latest EU sanctions list
Several Russian air transport companies including Ural Airlines and the airports operator Novaport have been newly included in a revised European Union list of sanctioned enterprises.
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NewsLufthansa City Airlines poised for launch
Lufthansa Group’s latest carrier Lufthansa City Airlines will launch flights on 26 June using an Airbus A320neo on the Munich-Birmingham route.
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AnalysisHow the UK’s aerospace R&D investments are powering change
Ten years on from its launch and post-Brexit, how effectively has UK R&D funding body and facilitator, the ATI, helped to cultivate disruptive technologies and future-proof aerospace businesses for the decarbonisation revolution?
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NewsEASA defers runway-overrun system deadline as supply chain struggles
Commercial aircraft manufacturers are set to be granted a further 18 months to meet a European requirement to fit runway-overrun protection systems during production of newly-built aircraft.
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AnalysisWhy GKN acquisition has brought added value to transformed Melrose
Now a pure-play aerospace business, GKN is enjoying strong growth as part of Melrose Industries – and embracing a new mantra to design, deliver and improve.
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NewsAzerbaijan Airlines to lease two more A320neos
Azerbaijan Airlines is to receive another pair of Airbus A320neo twinjets next year through a lease agreement.
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News‘Power spike’ behind severe disruption at Manchester airport terminals
Manchester airport’s operator is blaming a “power spike” for an electrical supply failure at two terminals on 23 June which severely disrupted flight operations. While power has been restored, it says, the impact on a number of systems led to substantial delays. “There was a big power spike in our ...
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NewsNorse Atlantic talks with potential strategic investor end without deal
Scandinavian long-haul carrier Norse Atlantic Airways has ended talks with a potential strategic investor, without reaching an agreement.
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NewsAer Lingus cancels flights as pilots take industrial action over pay
Aer Lingus has cancelled 10-20% of flights over the period 26-30 June, after members of the Irish Air Line Pilots Association (IALPA) voted in favour of work-to-rule action following their rejection of a pay deal.
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NewsEighth A330 MRTT joins NATO unit in Eindhoven
Airbus Defence & Space has delivered its eighth A330-200-based multi-role tanker transport (MRTT) to a multinational unit based at Eindhoven in the Netherlands.
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NewsFirst Russian-made engines delivered for import-substituted Kazan Ansat helicopter
Russia’s United Engine has supplied the first prototype Klimov VK-650V engines for the Kazan Ansat light-twin under an import-substitution programme.
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NewsEASA formally recommends enabling operation of ACAS Xa collision-avoidance system
Europe’s air transport regulator is formally recommending adoption of rules enabling aircraft to use the latest collision-avoidance technology within the continent’s airspace.
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NewsCourt rules ‘hidden’ defect in newly-introduced A350 relieved Finnair of compensation obligation
Finnair has successfully argued, in a long-running legal case, that it does not have to pay compensation over a flight cancelled after a previously-unknown technical fault was discovered in one of the carrier’s then-new Airbus A350s. The case centred on cancellation of a Helsinki-Bangkok flight on 25 March 2016, after ...
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NewsLufthansa-backed SAF producer Synhelion opens first solar fuels plant in Germany
Lufthansa Group-backed solar fuels start-up Synhelion inaugurated its first industrial-scale plant to produce synthetic fuels using solar heat.