News from FlightGlobal – Page 406
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NewsHeathrow flags freight impact as passenger numbers down 90% in first half
London Heathrow airport is warning of the impact on freight trade from the continued travel restrictions after today disclosing that passenger numbers remained 87% down on pre-crisis levels in June. The UK’s biggest hub airport handled 956,689 passengers in June. While that marked the highest figure for the year so ...
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NewsRescuers find no survivors from Aliansa DC-3 crash
None of the three occupants of an Aerolineas Andinas Aliansa Douglas DC-3 has survived after the aircraft came down shortly after departing Villavicencio. The airline’s operational safety director, Diego Mauricio Arias Grajales, has confirmed the loss of two pilots and a technician in the 8 July crash. Civil defence organisation ...
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NewsATR nets six-unit order from Greece’s Sky Express
Greek carrier Sky Express has ordered six ATR 72-600s, the first of which was handed over on 30 June.
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NewsDitched Transair 737-200 wreckage pictured on sea floor off Honolulu
US investigators have released images of the Rhoades Aviation Boeing 737-200C which ditched off the coast of Hawaii shortly after departing Honolulu. Underwater images from the National Transportation Safety Board show the jet’s fuselage fractured into at least two large sections, the forward cabin and cockpit detaching ahead of the ...
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NewsUS government to regulate airlines' ancillary fees
The US government will regulate airlines’ ancillary fees as part of a broad executive order the White House says will improve competitiveness, strengthen consumer rights and counter “the trend of corporate consolidation”.
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NewsTurkish A330 strayed to runway shoulder after roll input before touchdown
Investigators have determined that right roll inputs just before touchdown caused a Turkish Airlines Airbus A330-300 to land to the right of the centreline at Port Harcourt and stray to the runway shoulder, damaging lighting as well as parts of the aircraft. The aircraft (TC-LOL) had been arriving from Istanbul ...
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NewsFinnair steps into long-haul leisure routes from Stockholm
Oneworld alliance carrier Finnair is to branch into long-haul operations from the Swedish capital Stockholm, operating to destinations in the USA and Thailand. The airline will operate Airbus A350-900s on the services to Miami, Bangkok and Phuket during the winter season. It is stepping into the main base of SAS ...
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NewsColombian air force assists search for missing Aliansa DC-3
Search efforts to find a missing Douglas DC-3 of the Colombian carrier Aerolineas Andinas Aliansa are concentrating on a region west of the town of Restrepo in the Meta district. The aircraft departed Villavicencio for a training flight early on 8 July, according to the airline. Restrepo lies about 5nm ...
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NewsAfter dismal year, HKIA eyes third runway, Zhuhai collaboration
Hong Kong International airport (HKIA) saw passenger volume drop 98.6% to just 800,000 passengers in its 2020/21 fiscal year to 31 March, but remains on track to complete its third runway as it works on closer collaboration with nearby Zhuhai airport.
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NewsTechnical failure of crashed An-26 ‘unlikely’: airline
Russian carrier Kamchatka Aviation Enterprise has disclosed that the captain of the Antonov An-26 which crashed at Palana had logged almost 2,900h on type including 746h in command. He had joined the airline as a first officer in 2013, says flight operations director Sergei Gorb, flying as a captain for ...
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NewsEvidence of recovery as Airbus deliveries pick up in June
Airbus’s delivery of 77 aircraft during June marks the second-highest monthly figure since the onset of the air transport crisis. The level was only exceeded by the 89 achieved by the airframer during its end-of-year wrap-up in December 2020. Airbus delivered aircraft to 44 customers in June. These included 11 ...
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NewsUnited pushes Airbus into positive net orders for first half
United Airlines’ agreement for 70 Airbus A321neos finally lifted the airframer into positive net orders for the first half of the year. Airbus’s net orders had languished in negative territory over the course of 2021 until the United order was recorded on 28 June. The deal meant Airbus’s gross orders ...
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NewsIATA to outline fresh sustainability targets at October AGM
IATA will put forward proposals updating long-term airline industry targets to tackle emissions at its annual general meeting in October.
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NewsAegean to restore 80% of capacity as losses narrow
Aegean Airlines’ losses almost halved year on year in the first quarter of 2021, and the Greek carrier aims to restore 75-80% of its capacity in the third quarter.
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NewsIndustry keeps pressure on as travel restrictions eased for UK residents
UK airline industry bodies have welcomed as a first step government moves to allow quarantine-free travel from 19 July for fully-vaccinated UK residents returning to England from countries classified as “amber” under its traffic light system.
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NewsMore than 70 airlines trialling IATA Travel Pass
More than 70 airlines are at various stages of trialling the IATA Travel Pass, the mobile application developed to help smooth the processing of passengers’ travel health credentials.
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NewsJet2 waits on summer demand after losses in pandemic-hit year
UK leisure carrier Jet2 continues to have “limited visibility” for the key summer period and the coming winter season as it eyes a pick-up in travel demand after posting an operating loss of £373.8 million ($463.9 million) for the pandemic-hit year to March 2021.
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NewsLow-cost, long-haul Flypop expects surge in demand for Indian flights
UK-based start-up says country’s extensive diaspora not being served by existing airlines and plans to launch services as soon as travel restrictions are lifted
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NewsTwo months after launch, Avelo cuts destination cities, raises prices
Just over two months after launching operations, US startup carrier Avelo Airlines is pulling back service to several of its launch cities, and raising prices.
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NewsUS travel lobby groups urge swift reopening to foreign visitors
Aviation and travel lobby groups have once again urged the US government to ease restrictions on foreign visitors as coronavirus case counts decline and vaccinations increase.