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Airline BusinessAirline Business Covid-19 recovery tracker: October 2023 update
Our regular examination of the latest global data for several key airline market indicators, including traffic and capacity in passenger and cargo markets, in-service and stored fleets, jet fuel costs, and share price trends for the world’s largest groups.
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NewsPilot shortage ‘very real’ for US regional carriers struggling to keep aircraft flying
The pilot-supply outlook remains gloomy for regional airlines as hundreds of aircraft are parked – and the shortfall looks likely to reverberate into the 2030s.
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NewsCritical misunderstandings preceded LATAM A320neo's fatal runway collision with rescue vehicle
Misunderstandings from poor planning and co-ordination of a rescue exercise preceded the fatal collision involving a departing LATAM Airbus A320neo and a firefighting vehicle which sped onto the runway at Lima. Two of the three emergency personnel in the vehicle were killed after it entered runway 16L and was struck ...
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NewsSAS to leave Star for SkyTeam after picking Air France-KLM and Castlelake as investors
Scandinavian carrier SAS has identified Air France-KLM, and financial firms Castlelake and Lind Invest – along with the Danish government – as participants in the successful consortium to provide investment under the company’s equity solicitation process. SAS will eventually become a member of the SkyTeam alliance, leaving its position in ...
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Airline BusinessRiyadh Air closing in on narrowbody order as Douglas continues groundwork
Riyadh Air is set to place its expected narrowbody aircraft order “in the coming months” as Tony Douglas, chief executive of the ambitious Saudi Arabian start-up, continues to plot the national carrier’s launch path.
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Airline BusinessPegasus plots continued growth as it prepares to pass 100-aircraft milestone
Low-cost carrier Pegasus Airlines is about to take delivery of its 100th aircraft. The passing of the landmark is not only illustrative of how far it has come since launching scheduled services in 2005, but of the rapid growth seen in the Turkish market – both before and since the pandemic. Now the challenge it is to continue this expansion.
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InterviewATR chief targets 40-plus deliveries in 2023 as ‘recovery on track’
Twelve months into her four-year mandate as ATR’s first female chief executive, Nathalie Tarnaud Laude maintains the Toulouse-based airframer’s recovery is “on track” and that it will deliver at least 40 aircraft this year, after shipping 20 units in the first eight months.
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NewsCessna 560 crew failed to release parking-brake before fatal take-off overrun
US investigators have determined that the pilots of a Cessna Citation 560 XLS+ failed to release the aircraft’s parking-brake before it overran the runway on take-off, pitching rapidly up before rolling inverted and crashing into a building. None of the four occupants survived the accident which occurred as the jet ...
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NewsUral A320 field-landing crew did not realise undercarriage had failed to retract
Russian investigators believe the crew of a Ural Airlines Airbus A320 did not realise the undercarriage had failed to retract during a diversion to Novosibirsk, forcing the aircraft to land in a field as it ran short on fuel. The A320 had aborted an approach to its original destination, Omsk, ...
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In depthInside Airbus UpNext, the airframer’s ‘centre of competence for craziness’
Airbus UpNext, one of the airframer’s innovation arms, is gearing up for a busy fourth quarter, as demonstrators being developed across its portfolio – from morphing wings to superconductive cables – accelerate towards critical test phases.
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NewsE195-E2 take-off incident traced to both pilots' picking wrong intersection on touchscreen
Investigators believe touchscreen ergonomic design contributed to a take-off incident involving an Embraer 195-E2, after both pilots independently selected the wrong intersection for departure. The KLM Cityhopper aircraft was departing from Berlin Brandenburg on 12 September 2021, using intersection L5 on runway 25R. But when the pilots conducted take-off calculations, ...
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NewsAir Belgium to axe all scheduled passenger services as it seeks court restructuring
Air Belgium is to cancel all its scheduled flights from October, to focus on other activity, and file for court-authorised restructuring in order to reduce debts. The airline says its passenger operations are “proving to be chronically unprofitable” and it will instead focus solely on wet-lease and freight services. Air ...
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NewsBird-strike considered as inquiry opens into fatal Frecce Tricolori aerobatic jet crash
Italian investigators will examine whether a bird-strike might have triggered the fatal crash involving an Aermacchi MB-339 of the national Frecce Tricolori aerobatic team. The jet had been among a lead formation of five aircraft – with another four in trail – which took off from Turin’s Caselle airport on ...
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News‘Infuriating’: Hawaiian’s CEO blasts Pratt’s PW1100G response as airlines plan to ground more jets
Hawaiian Airlines’ chief executive has taken issue with how RTX and subsidiary Pratt & Whitney (P&W) apparently plan to handle its massive recall of PW1100G geared turbofans (GTFs), which power Hawaiian’s Airbus A321neos.
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NewsDesign and inspection problems preceded 2021 PW4000 failure as nine more cracked blades found: NTSB
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has blamed the 2021 uncontained failure of Pratt & Whitey PW4077 turbofan on engine design and testing failures and on inadequate fan blade inspections.
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NewsAirbus records strong widebody order activity during August
Airbus has disclosed an order for three A330-900s from an unidentified customer during August, a month which has been one of the strongest this year for long-haul aircraft agreements. The airframer recorded 20 A330-900s for lessor Avolon, as well as seven aircraft for Air Algerie – comprising five A330-900s and ...
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NewsEasyJet wants to be ‘first customer’ for Airbus ZEROe aircraft: Lundgren
EasyJet chief executive Johan Lundgren insists the carrier wants to be first in line for any future hydrogen-powered aircraft that long-time supplier Airbus builds.
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NewsNordwind A321 executed go-around with over 100 system failures after hard landing
Russian investigators have detailed the serious damage inflicted on a Nordwind Airbus A321 by a hard landing at Antalya, after which the crew executed a go-around despite the aircraft’s being crippled. Over 100 failures were recorded by the ACARS communications system after the twinjet – arriving from Moscow on 10 ...
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NewsLATAM 767 freighter reached excessive nose-up pitch and stalled during windshear escape
German investigators have disclosed that a LATAM Airlines Boeing 767-300ER freighter reached a steep nose-up pitch of 48°, and started to stall, during a windshear-escape manoeuvre on approach to Frankfurt. The aircraft had been arriving from Amsterdam on 20 June and had stabilised on the ILS Category I approach to ...
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NewsFlight-control issue prompts NASA and Lockheed to move X-59 back inside for troubleshooting
Flight-control issue prompts NASA and Lockheed to move X-59 back inside for troubleshooting.