All articles by David Kaminski-Morrow – Page 3
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NewsAustrian Airlines starts transferring E195 fleet to Italian sister carrier
Lufthansa Group’s Austrian Airlines has begun phasing out its Embraer 195 regional jets, transferring an initial aircraft to Italian sister carrier Air Dolomiti. Austrian is modernising and simplifying its fleet and, instead of its 17 E195s, will introduce six more Airbus A320neos – each configured with 180 seats – the ...
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NewsJetBlue A320 crew startled by encounter with ‘unseen’ military tanker north of Venezuela
A JetBlue Airbus A320 crew reported a close encounter with a US Air Force tanker aircraft operating without an active transponder during climb-out from Curacao on 12 December, forcing the commercial flight to halt its ascent.
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NewsVueling flight data supports validation of European gate-to-gate emissions model
Flight-data monitoring from Spanish carrier Vueling has been used to validate a European methodology for calculating carbon emissions based on fuel burn for gate-to-gate scenarios. Pan-European air navigation service Eurocontrol developed the estimation methodology – which uses radar and aircraft performance data – and has published results since 2019. Under ...
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NewsAerosucre 727 freighter damaged on landing after main-gear problem
Colombian investigators are probing a landing accident involving an Aerosucre Boeing 727-200 freighter at Barranquilla. The aircraft had departed Barranquilla on 12 December but returned after “experiencing a failure” in its left-hand main landing-gear, according to the Colombian regulator Aerocivil. Some 70min after take-off, much of it spent in a ...
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NewsNorse Atlantic cancels proposed follow-up share offering
Scandinavian operator Norse Atlantic has cancelled a proposed additional offering of shares, because the company’s stock price is below the threshold for issue. Norse had been considering the additional offering as a follow-up to a private placement disclosed in October. This offering would have comprised up to 12.09 million new ...
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NewsCues missed before Southwest 737 began take-off roll on parallel Orlando taxiway
US investigators state that a Southwest Airlines Boeing 737-800 captain did not adhere to runway-verification procedures before the jet commenced its take-off roll from a parallel taxiway at Orlando earlier this year. The aircraft, bound for Albany on 20 March, had been cleared to taxi from its Airside 2 apron ...
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NewsIndiGo parent’s chair blames chaos on combination of internal and external events
Indian carrier IndiGo’s parent, InterGlobe Aviation, has blamed a combination of internal and external events for the airline’s recent widespread disruption, but insists that the situation was not the result of deliberate actions. The chair of InterGlobe Aviation, the airline’s parent, Vikram Singh Mehta says the company sought to support ...
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NewsTractor pushed 737 into Stansted blast fence as driver focused on instructing trainee
UK investigators believe a tow-tractor instructor was focused on training another driver when the vehicle pushed a Boeing 737-800 into the blast fence at London Stansted. The Malta Air aircraft – before engine start – was undergoing a long pushback from stand 63R, to the end of a cul-de-sac abeam ...
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NewsJazeera Airways and Beond selected to establish charter carriers in Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia’s civil aviation regulator has selected Kuwait’s Jazeera Airways and the premium leisure carrier Beond to establish charter operations in the kingdom. The General Authority of Civil Aviation had opened a tender inviting companies to submit proposals for national charter airlines. Charter aviation has a “vital role” in meeting ...
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NewsAir France A350 crippled by collapsed radome after bird-strike damage undetected
French investigators believe inadequate maintenance checks on an Air France Airbus A350-900’s radome led to its collapsing during a turnback to Osaka. The inquiry found that a bird-strike a month earlier had probably debonded the inner surface of the radome. But French investigation authority BEA says this surface had not ...
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NewsUS investors acquire Safran in-flight entertainment specialist
US investors have agreed to acquire the in-flight entertainment specialist Safran Passenger Innovations, whose products include the IFE system RAVE. Los Angeles-based Kingswood Capital Management says it has entered a “definitive agreement” to acquire the division from French aerospace firm Safran. The transaction, subject to normal regulatory requirements, is set ...
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NewsAzul E195 landed on wrong Rio runway after parallel’s lights were switched off
Brazilian investigators have been unable to determine precisely why runway lights at Rio de Janeiro’s Santos Dumont airport were switched off for several minutes, during which time an Azul Embraer 195 inadvertently landed on the illuminated parallel runway. The incident occurred at night as the twinjet, inbound from Sao Paulo ...
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NewsIndiGo chief claims carrier ‘back on its feet’ after extensive disruption
Indian carrier IndiGo’s chief executive, Pieter Elbers, is claiming that the airline’s operations are “stable” and the carrier is “back on its feet” after days of widespread disruption. It has returned to all 138 destinations, he says, with flights scheduled to operate on “an adjusted network”. Elbers says the restoration ...
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NewsTurkey’s Pegasus Airlines emerges as buyer of Czech budget carrier Smartwings
Turkish budget carrier Pegasus Airlines is set to acquire Czech Airlines and its low-cost operator Smartwings in a €154 million ($180 million) transaction. Smartwings’ shareholders have been holding partnership talks for several years, notably with Israeli leisure carrier Israir. But Israir withdrew from the process earlier this year having engaged ...
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NewsIndian ministry caps fares and warns carriers not to exploit IndiGo chaos
India’s civil aviation ministry has imposed fare regulations to prevent carriers taking advantage of the widespread disruption to budget carrier IndiGo’s operations.
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NewsQatar Airways leadership suddenly changes as Hamad airport executive named new chief
Qatar Airways Group has named a new chief executive, appointing Hamad Ali Al-Khater who succeeds Badr Mohammed Al-Meer with immediate effect. The Gulf carrier has not elaborated on the sudden change in leadership, just two years after Al-Meer replaced the long-serving Akbar Al Baker who, in turn, had held the ...
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NewsLow-cost carrier Tigerair Taiwan to expand as board approves A321neo acquisition
Budget carrier Tigerair Taiwan is to acquire at least 15 Airbus A321neo twinjets for its route-development plan. Its board has approved the lease of 11 aircraft, to arrive by 2031, and purchase of four more by 2035. Tigerair Taiwan has not identified the proposed lessor, stating that a potential transaction ...
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NewsGovernment to open IndiGo probe as it eases new rules to resolve flight chaos
India’s civil aviation ministry has suspended the country’s new flight-duty time limit directive in a bid to ease the severe disruption to budget carrier IndiGo’s services. The airline has been experiencing particularly serious problems with flight operations as a result of new criteria, and the government intends to carry out ...
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NewsQantas 737 took off with wrong weight data after passengers listed as offloaded
Australian investigators have determined that a Qantas Boeing 737-800 departed Canberra with incorrect take-off performance data, after more than 50 passengers were erroneously listed as no longer on board. While the airline’s load-control personnel were suspicious about the data while compiling the aircraft’s loadsheet, it was nevertheless handed to the ...
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NewsUnidentified A350-1000 deal in November takes Airbus net orders to 700
Orders for eight Airbus A350-1000s from an undisclosed customer during November helped push the airframer’s net total for the year to 700. Airbus’s figures for the month formally list an additional 30 A350-900s for IndiGo – taking its total to 60 of the type – and six A330-900s for Etihad ...