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NewsEncourage crews to report fatigue risk during pandemic: UK CAA
UK civil aviation regulators are stressing that operators need to encourage crews to report fatigue-related occurrences as a result of abnormal duty patterns, in order to ensure that risk-assessment models remain valid during the pandemic. The pandemic has resulted in severe disruption to carriers’ services and forced aircraft crews ...
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Turkmenistan to take first Airbus jets through A330 freighter conversion
Turkmenistan Airlines has ordered a pair of Airbus A330-200 converted freighters, the first time the Central Asian operator has signed for the airframer’s aircraft. The aircraft are set to be delivered in 2022, following the modification work. Airbus has not detailed the source of the airframes to be ...
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‘Complete stop’ in European air travel as Covid testing wipes out demand
Aircraft movements in European airspace are collapsing towards the low levels seen during the first wave of the pandemic in April, as more travel restrictions hit demand for airline operations, according to Eurocontrol.
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Airbus to raise A320 production at slower pace than forecast
Airbus is still intending to increase monthly A320 production, but at a slower rate than the originally-expected figure of 47 aircraft. It will raise A320-family monthly output from the current 40 aircraft to 43 in the third quarter, and 45 in the fourth. “Production rates will remain lower ...
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Lufthansa now losing €1m every two hours, rather than every hour
Lufthansa Group is losing €1 million ($1.2 million) every two hours amid the Covid-19 crisis – an improvement from losing the same amount every hour at points last year.
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Stalled recovery prompts KLM to deepen job cuts
Dutch carrier KLM is to cut up to 1,000 more jobs as a result of the later then expected recovery in travel demand from the pandemic.
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Stronger Norwegian business plan convinces government to offer support
Norway’s government has signalled that it is prepared to offer financial support to budget carrier Norwegian, to assist with the restructuring airline’s recovery, but has laid out a number of conditions. The government is stressing that it has no intention of becoming an owner of the carrier. Trade ...
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KLM temporarily suspends 270 flights
Dutch carrier KLM will reportedly suspend 270 flights to the Netherlands after the country’s government imposed new requirements to try to stem the spread of the coronavirus.
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SAS leans on domestic markets amid intensifying competition
Large domestic markets have helped ease several carriers through the Covid-19 crisis, as travel restrictions and a fear of moving across borders bolster internal demand within countries with large populations and territories.
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UK regulator to issue separate directive approving 737 Max restoration
While the European Union Aviation Safety Agency is aiming to recertify the Boeing 737 Max within a few days, its UK counterpart has yet to indicate whether it will deviate from the requirements when it issues its own approval. FlightGlobal understands that the UK Civil Aviation Authority intends to ...
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IAG aims to seal revised Air Europa purchase in second half
Iberia parent IAG has confirmed it has struck an amended agreement with Globalia to acquire Air Europa for €500 million, half the price envisaged when the deal was originally agreed in November 2019.
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Il-114-300 carries out second test flight after month-long hiatus
United Aircraft has conducted a second test flight with the updated Ilyushin Il-114-300 turboprop, a month after the maiden sortie in mid-December. The twin-engined aircraft – numbered 54114, a modernised version of the original Il-114 airframe – took off from Moscow Zhukovsky with a crew of three, comprising two ...
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Icelandair Group to divest tour operator following hotel sale
Icelandair Group is to sell its tour operator subsidiary Iceland Travel, as part of the continuing concentration on its flight operations activities. The wholly-owned subsidiary had been classified, along with hotel firm Icelandair Hotels, as an asset held for sale in 2019. Icelandair Group sold a 75% share ...
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Passenger numbers plunged by over 70% across five biggest European hubs in 2020
Passenger numbers fell by more than 70% across Europe’s five biggest hubs last year as international travel ground to a virtual standstill because of the coronavirus pandemic.
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HSBC slashes first-half outlook for Europe’s carriers
Prospects for Europe’s airlines in the first quarter of 2021 have deteriorated notably in recent weeks, but bank HSBC expects intra-European and possibly transatlantic passenger numbers to bounce back for the summer season.
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What does Norwegian exit mean for long-haul, low-cost adventure?
Norwegian is ditching the long-haul, low-cost model it pioneered over the past decade, but will the carrier’s legacy be a longer lasting impact on the transatlantic market?
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MC-21 suffers runway excursion during simulated single-engine failure
One of the flight-test Irkut MC-21-300s has been involved in a runway excursion at Moscow Zhukovsky during an exercise simulating single-engine failure. Images from the scene show that aircraft 73051 – the first example of the aircraft to fly – has come to a halt on snow-covered ground. ...
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Budget airline Pobeda proves resilient as Russian full-year traffic halves
Russian airlines’ passenger traffic halved over the course of last year, official figures from the federal air transport regulator show. Rosaviatsia states that overall traffic was down by 52% with passenger numbers down 46% to 69.2 million. But the fall was not indiscriminate across the Russian carriers. ...
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Airports call for further support as UK suspends travel corridor scheme
UK airports are calling for further government support to cover operating costs after the suspension of the country’s safe travel corridors programme as part of efforts to counter further strains of the coronavirus.
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Gama expands US maintenance footprint with Jet East acquisition
UK business aviation services group Gama Aviation has almost doubled the size of its US maintenance operation with the $11 million acquisition of Trenton, New Jersey-based Jet East
