All articles by David Kaminski-Morrow – Page 2

  • E190 Finnair-c-Finnair
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    Finnair shows off revamped E190 cabin interiors

    2024-10-30T10:32:00Z

    Finnair has shown off a cabin revamp on its Embraer 190s, which the Nordic carrier uses for regional European services.

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    Spain’s Iberia takes delivery of first long-range Airbus A321XLR

    2024-10-30T09:12:00Z

    Iberia has taken delivery of the first Airbus A321XLR, the longest-range variant of the A321neo family.

  • Finnair A350-c-Finnair
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    Finnair bets on sustainable fuel progress but pushes back carbon-neutrality target date

    2024-10-30T07:41:00Z

    Finnair has pushed back its long-term target for achieving carbon neutrality, fixing the timeline at 2050 rather than its previous ambition of 2045. The carrier disclosed the shift as it revealed that short-term plans to decarbonise its operations had secured validation, with formal acceptance of a science-based target to reduce ...

  • Finnair A330-c-Finnair
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    Finnair to re-introduce A330s deployed under Qatar Airways co-operation

    2024-10-29T15:00:00Z

    Finnair intends to re-introduce a pair of redeployed Airbus A330s to its own network when a Qatar Airways co-operation agreement ends early next year.

  • One Air 747-400SF-c-One Air
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    UK 747 freighter operator’s route approvals spur sales partner’s Asian expansion

    2024-10-29T14:29:00Z

    UK air cargo specialist Air One is broadening its presence in Asia, driven by freight carrier One Air’s securing approvals to serve cities in China, Japan and Malaysia. One Air uses a fleet of three Boeing 747-400 freighters – a third was introduced on lease from the United Arab Emirates’ ...

  • Finnair A350-c-Finnair
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    Finnair maintains full-year outlook despite lower third-quarter performance

    2024-10-29T13:05:00Z

    Finnair is maintaining its forecast for full-year profit, despite a lower third-quarter performance as the post-pandemic traffic surge eased. The carrier has reiterated its revenue outlook of €3-3.2 billion ($3.2-3.4 billion) and has narrowed its comparable earnings range to €120-170 million. It is also sticking with plans to achieve an ...

  • Qatar A321neo-c-Airbus
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    Qatar to fit Thales FlytEDGE entertainment system to A321neo fleet

    2024-10-29T07:35:00Z

    Qatar Airways has become the first carrier to disclose that it is equipping aircraft with French firm Thales’s new in-flight entertainment system FlytEDGE. The system will be fitted on Qatar’s Airbus A321neos. Qatar Airways senior vice-president for product development Xia Cai claims passengers will have “access to the most innovative ...

  • An-2 crash-c-Russian emergency situations ministry
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    All on board survive as An-2 loses height and hits light pole

    2024-10-28T18:56:00Z

    Russian investigators are probing an accident involving an Antonov An-2 which came down near Essentuki in the far south of the country. Four of the nine occupants were injured – with three hospitalised – when the aircraft lost height, crashing into rough ground close to a highway. The Interstate Aviation ...

  • SmartLynx YL-LCT-c-Alec Wilson Creative Commons
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    SmartLynx secures US authorisation for Latvian fleet operations

    2024-10-28T10:18:00Z

    Wet-lease specialist SmartLynx Airlines has secured broader authorisation to conduct US operations, with approval of its Latvian division. SmartLynx has operated US services under its Maltese air operator’s certificate since 2019. But the US FAA has since conducted an audit of the Latvian air transport regulator. SmartLynx says that, following ...

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    SAA chair: South African domestic market strong despite Mango absence

    2024-10-28T09:19:00Z

    South African Airways’ chairman is uncertain whether budget carrier Mango will be revived, but believes that the country’s domestic market is strong and signals that SAA is more focused on regional and intercontinental services.

  • Czech Airlines A320-c-Anna Zvereva Creative Commons
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    Czech Airlines drops out of SkyTeam as Smartwings takes over flight operations

    2024-10-26T09:28:00Z

    Czech Airlines has ceased to be a member of the SkyTeam alliance, following a change to the company’s business model that involves associate airline Smartwings taking over its operations. SkyTeam says the carrier’s membership ended effective 26 October. As a result of the structural change, Czech Airlines will no longer ...

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    SAA striving to recover R1bn from Zimbabwe as it seeks funds for development

    2024-10-25T15:15:00Z

    South African Airways is keen to recover some R1 billion ($59 million) in funds from a Zimbabwean legacy debt, but admits it has achieved only minimal success. The carrier’s senior management appeared before a parliamentary public accounts committee on 22 October, laying out the need to source funding after a ...

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    SAA floats possibility of selling Heathrow slots to fund fleet expansion

    2024-10-25T13:10:00Z

    South African Airways has raised the possibility of selling slots at London Heathrow in order to help address the airline’s financial pressures. SAA is government-owned and has been forced to revise its business strategy after a long-running attempt at privatisation collapsed earlier this year. The carrier’s chair, Derek Hanekom, told ...

  • Play A321neo-c-Play
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    Iceland’s Play slashing hub-and-spoke activity as it shifts to new model

    2024-10-24T19:33:00Z

    Icelandic budget carrier Play expects to slash the proportion of hub-and-spoke operations in its activity from 75% to just 30% as it adopts a new business model. Leisure travel will account for 35% – up from the current 25% – while charter and wet-lease services will account for the remaining ...

  • TUI excursion Leeds-c-AAIB
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    TUI 737 excursion crew could have kept aircraft on Leeds runway: investigators

    2024-10-24T11:03:00Z

    Pilots of a Boeing 737-800 involved in a landing excursion in wet conditions at Leeds-Bradford could have kept the jet on the runway, investigators believe, but might have been influenced by unexpected juddering from a nose-wheel bearing failure. The TUI Airways aircraft had been arriving from Corfu, in stormy weather, ...

  • A380-c-Tarmac Aerosave
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    Three more stored A380s to be broken up for spares

    2024-10-24T09:41:00Z

    Three Airbus A380s are to be dismantled and recycled in order to feed demand for spares from remaining operators of the double-deck type. Break-up of the jets is the subject of an agreement between Tarmac Aerosave and the German asset management firm EastMerchant Capital. Tarmac Aerosave says they will bring ...

  • A220-300-c-Romain Coupy Creative Commons
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    A220 operators told to upgrade flight-control software to address ’design deficiencies’

    2024-10-24T08:32:00Z

    Airbus A220 operators are being instructed to install a new production baseline software for flight-control computers to remedy a number of deficiencies reported on in-service aircraft. The upgrade is required for all three flight-control computers on the twinjet type, states a Transport Canada directive. Its mandate follows occurrences of nuisance ...

  • 777X-c-Boeing
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    Boeing chief: Change and stability essential to create ‘path to next commercial aircraft’

    2024-10-23T17:53:00Z

    Boeing’s chief executive Kelly Ortberg has stressed that the company needs fundamental cultural change, and cannot embark on new aircraft development until it has stabilised its business and improved programme execution. Ortberg spoke as the airframer – pressured by strike action, programme delays and charges, and quality-control issues – turned ...

  • Nuuk runway-c-Greenland Airports
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    SAS to restart Greenland service as new Nuuk runway opens

    2024-10-23T13:56:00Z

    SkyTeam carrier SAS is to restart services to Greenland after more than 20 years, with a connection to the capital Nuuk. SAS says it will operate the route from Copenhagen during peak summer 2025, beginning on 27 June. Its reservations engine indicates that the carrier will use Airbus A321neos for ...

  • Charleroi digital mast-c-Skeyes
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    Digital-tower mast installed at Brussels Charleroi airport

    2024-10-23T11:02:00Z

    Brussels Charleroi airport has had a camera and antenna mast installed as part of a digital tower programme which will be operational by the end of 2026. The Charleroi installation follows that of a similar structure at Liege airport last November. Charleroi’s mast is 37m (121ft) in height – taller ...