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Bombardier lifts production and revenue targets
Bombardier has hiked its two-year revenue projections and now expects in the coming years to significantly increase the pace at which it delivers business jets.
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EASA pilots fly AW609 for first time
Pilots working for the European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) have now flown the Leonardo Helicopters AW609 tiltrotor, matching their counterparts from the US regulator.
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Boeing donates $5.1 million to Embry-Riddle aviation safety centre
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University has landed a $5.1 million donation from Boeing to support an aviation safety centre at the school’s campus in Daytona Beach, Florida.
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Archer and United plan downtown Chicago-to-O’Hare air taxi route
US urban air mobility start-up Archer Aviation has added Chicago to its list of 2025 launch cities with an airport-to-downtown route planned to be operated by its in-development ”Midnight” aircraft.
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NATO declares initial operational capacity on Airbus tanker fleet
Seven of NATO’s planned 10 Airbus A330 Multinational Multi-role Tanker Transport jets are now in service, owned and operated directly by the alliance.
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Airlines for Europe names new managing director
Airlines for Europe has named Ourania Georgoutsakou as its new managing director following the departure in February of founding leader Thomas Reynaert.
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Lufthansa Cargo chief to become next head of Brussels Airlines
Lufthansa Cargo chief Dorothea von Boxberg will become the new chief executive of Brussels Airlines, following the recent departure of Peter Gerber.
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Oil firms must take blame for offshore helicopter shortages, consultancy argues
Oil companies will only “have themselves to blame” if they are forced to pay more for offshore helicopter transport services or see their operations hampered by the lack of available aircraft, a leading consultancy has argued.
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GE Aerospace’s history of 100% SAF testing
All GE Aerospace engines can operate on approved Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) blends today. GE Aerospace also supports industry initiatives to qualify and adopt 100% SAF through its own testing and through industry collaborations.
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Airline Business performance tracker: Americas Q4 2022
Key data from the most-recent Americas earnings period – the fourth quarter of 2022 – and the equivalent periods stretching back to the last pre-Covid year, powered by Airline Business Insight
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Avio Aero gears up to deliver final missing component to Airbus Racer project
Airbus Helicopters expects later this month to receive the crucial Avio Aero-built main gearbox (MGB) for its Racer high-speed rotorcraft, the final missing component holding up the demonstrator’s first flight.
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Rolls-Royce ready to run UltraFan ‘imminently’
A first ground run of Rolls-Royce’s UltraFan technology demonstrator is “imminent”, according to a senior company executive.
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Brussels Airlines boosts summer capacity through CityJet wet-lease deal
Brussels Airlines will operate 10% more European flights this summer than last, after signing an agreement to wet-lease two Bombardier CRJ900s from CityJet and taking delivery of two additional Airbus A320s.
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Post-storage Transavia 737’s loss of air data traced to unconnected pitot-static lines
Investigators have determined that a Transavia Boeing 737-700 brought out of storage during the pandemic departed Rotterdam without its pitot-static pressure lines being connected to their air-data modules, with a loss of crucial flight information to the pilots. The aircraft was operating to Alicante on 24 April 2021, and had ...
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Honeywell to develop hydrogen technology for aviation through new academic partnership
Honeywell Aerospace has signed a multi-year contract with Massachusetts-based Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) to develop hydrogen storage and fuel cell technologies for future use in the air transport sector.
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Saudi Arabia envisions seamless high-tech travel with new Neom airline and airport
Saudi Arabia’s ambitious Neom smart-city and sustainable-development project, in the north of the kingdom, is to have its own airline and airport system, which aim to overhaul current travel processes.
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JAL orders 21 737 Max 8s for short-haul fleet renewal
Japan Airlines (JAL) has ordered 21 Boeing 737 Max 8s, as part of efforts to upgrade its short-haul fleet.
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Aland picks Heart Aerospace to nurture sustainable transport links to islands
Swedish zero-emission aircraft developer Heart Aerospace is to collaborate with the government of Aland – an autonomous region of Finland in the Baltic Sea – to explore the use of the hybrid-electric ES-30 to decarbonise air transport links to the islands.
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Play reinforces transatlantic bridge with Amsterdam service
Icelandic budget carrier Play is to extend its European network to Amsterdam over the summer, to reinforce its transatlantic bridge network. The new route, which will open in the first week of June, will bring the carrier’s network up to nearly 40 destinations, two years after it commenced services. Play ...
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Jetstar rides strong recovery amid supply chain challenges
Australian low-cost carrier Jetstar is enjoying strong domestic and international recoveries, although supply chain issues are impacting its widebody and narrowbody fleets.