All Europe news – Page 9
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NewsAir Greenland A330-800 becomes first long-haul arrival at Nuuk
Air Greenland’s Airbus A330-800 has become the first long-haul aircraft to touch down on the newly-extended runway at the Greenlandic capital Nuuk. The aircraft, operating flight GL781 from Copenhagen on 28 November, landed on runway 04 which has been lengthened to 2,200m. Prior to the arrival, Air Greenland also conducted ...
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NewsNorse Atlantic’s founding shareholder injects $15 million in new funding
Norse Atlantic Airways has obtained around $15 million in new capital through a combined equity and loan transaction by its founding shareholder. It disclosed the support as it posted a third-quarter operating profit of $4.6 million, but a net loss of $6.3 million – a contrast to last year’s narrow ...
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NewsNorse reaches preliminary agreement to wet-lease six of its aircraft next year
Scandinavia’s Norse Atlantic Airways has tentatively agreed a wet-lease for six of its aircraft to another carrier, the identity of which has yet to be disclosed. Norse Atlantic exclusively operates a fleet of Boeing 787s. It states that the wet-lease – still the subject of a letter of intent – ...
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NewsBabcock, KAI join forces for European training sector push
Babcock and Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI) will jointly pursue training opportunities in Europe, under the terms of a newly signed memorandum of understanding.
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NewsRafale works with A400M to test low-speed buddy refuelling
France is assessing the ability of the Dassault Aviation Rafale M to refuel the French navy’s future trio of Northrop Grumman E-2D Hawkeye airborne early warning and control aircraft.
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AnalysisWhy UK’s Watchkeeper UAV failed the test of time
The UK government’s decision to send its Watchkeeper uncrewed air vehicles (UAVs) into early retirement marks an ignominious end for a once-ambitious effort to boost the British Army’s airborne intelligence, surveillance, target acquisition and reconnaissance (ISTAR) capabilities.
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NewsRudder-jam ATR 72 freighter not fitted with corrosion-resistant bearings
UK investigators probing a rudder jam involving a West Atlantic ATR 72-200 freighter have found that degraded steel bearings had not been replaced by corrosion-resistant ones. The replacement had been recommended in a service bulleting published 30 years before the incident at Belfast International on 7 March 2023. As the ...
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NewsSkyTeam partner SAS to open new service to Asian capital
SkyTeam alliance carrier SAS is to open services to the Korean capital Seoul next year, operating from its Copenhagen base. Seoul is the hub of Korean Air, one of SAS’s new SkyTeam partner airlines. SAS says the route will be the first ever regular service between Scandinavia and Korea, operating ...
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NewsTurkey drops plan to purchase F-16 Block 70 upgrade kits, opting for domestic improvement work
While Turkey will still move forward with the purchase of 40 new F-16V fighter jets from Lockheed Martin, Ankara has decided to scrap a planned acquisition of 79 Block 70 upgrade kits for its existing F-16 fleet, opting instead to contract with domestic Turkish Aerospace for the modernisations.
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NewsAzimuth Superjet ‘did not burn’ despite ignition of fuel spill from damaged tank
Russian carrier Azimuth Airlines has disclosed that the fire involving one of its Yakovlev Superjet 100s at Antalya resulted from fuel on the apron spilled from a damaged tank, but insists the aircraft itself did not burn. The twinjet, operating flight A45051 from Sochi on 24 November, had been stable ...
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NewsEasyJet turns in strong full-year performance ahead of leadership handover
As UK budget carrier EasyJet’s chief, Johan Lundgren, prepares to hand over the top post to successor Kenton Jarvis, he leaves the airline in a strong position with lower winter losses and significant improvement in full-year profit. EasyJet says productivity and utilisation measures helped cut winter losses by £40 million ...
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NewsAirbus finalising adaptation of assembly-line stations for A350 freighter
Airbus intends to finalise readiness of jigs and tools on its A350 final assembly line over the next six months in order to handle the manufacture of the freighter variant of the twinjet type. Designated the A350-1000F, the freighter is sized between the -900 and -1000 passenger versions and this, ...
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NewsAEC Skyline-Top Aces team lands Dutch adversary training service deal
The Royal Netherlands Air Force has selected AEC Skyline and Top Aces to provide advanced adversary air training services from 1 January 2025.
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NewsEmbraer picks Fokker Services Group for Dutch C-390 modification work
Fokker Services Group (FSG) is to develop an update package “including turnkey engineering, certification and modification services” for nine C-390 airlifters on order for the Netherlands and partner Austria.
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NewsRussian investigators join Turkish-led inquiry into Azimuth Superjet blaze
Russia’s Interstate Aviation Committee is joining a Turkish-led investigation into the Yakovlev Superjet 100 fire at Antalya on 24 November. There were no fatalities among the 89 passengers and six crew members after the Azimuth Airlines jet (RA-89085) experienced a hard landing, according to the carrier. Images from the scene ...
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NewsPolish flight-inspection King Air checks Vilnius navaids after 737 crash
Polish air navigation service PANSA appears to have undertaken checks of the navigation and guidance systems at Vilnius airport, following a fatal Boeing 737-400 accident during final approach. PANSA has a flight-inspection arm, the fleet of which includes a Beechcraft King Air 350 which has been conducting multiple flights over ...
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AnalysisWhich types left use during our latest World Air Forces review?
We detail some of the most notable national fleet retirements recorded in the 12 months since we published our last World Air Forces directory at the end of 2023.
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NewsVirgin Atlantic chief still eyes profit return this year
Virgin Atlantic chief executive Shai Weiss continues to be hopeful the carrier can return to profit for the first time since 2016 this year.
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NewsPiaggio delivers new Avanti Evo+ trainers to Italian air force
Italy’s air force has taken delivery of three new Piaggio Aerospace P180 Avanti Evo+ aircraft to support training activities.
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NewsPolish armed forces take delivery of last two S-70i Black Hawks
Lockheed Martin’s PZL Mielec subsidiary has delivered its last S-70i Black Hawks to the Polish armed forces, completing orders for a total of eight examples.