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NewsUK eyes wide-ranging Chinook replacement
The UK may replace all of the Royal Air Force’s (RAF’s) current 60-strong fleet of Boeing CH-47 Chinooks with new-build examples to enable the operation of the tandem rotor-type well into the future.
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Etihad to restore Doha flights from mid-February
UAE carrier Etihad Airways is to restore service from Abu Dhabi to the Qatari capital Doha from 15 February following the restoration of diplomatic links between the Gulf states.
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Indigo Partners founder banks on vaccine-led airline recovery
The co-founder of Indigo Partners, the private equity firm that holds stakes in several airlines from the USA to Hungary, has expressed his optimism that Covid-19 vaccines will lead to a recovery of leisure and VFR traffic in the second half of this year.
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Uncoordinated approach to Covid quarantines a ‘disaster for aviation’: EASA chief
Patrick Ky, the executive director of Europe’s aviation safety regulator, has become the latest senior industry official to hit out at the lack of a coordinated approach to coronavirus testing and quarantine measures for international travel.
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West Atlantic 737 freighter damaged during Exeter landing
Swedish-UK freight specialist West Atlantic has confirmed that one of its Boeing 737-400 cargo aircraft was involved in a landing incident at Exeter early on 19 January. West Atlantic chief Lars Jordahn tells FlightGlobal that the “incident on landing” involved freighter G-JMCY – a 1994 airframe originally delivered to ...
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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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EASA open to relaxation of single-pilot rules for commercial aviation
EASA is considering the potential for some relaxation of the rules which currently restrict single-pilot operations in commercial aviation.
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EASA to gauge public’s appetite for widespread urban air taxi operations
European safety officials will later this year conduct surveys in six cities across the continent as regulators attempt to assess the public’s appetite for increased operations of drones and urban air mobility (UAM) vehicles in built-up areas.
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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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SIA Engineering to invest over S$40 million in digitalisation, automation
SIA Engineering (SIAEC) has rolled out the second phase of its business transformation efforts, where it will invest more than S$40 million ($30.2 million) in technological areas such as digitalisation and automation.
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Pandemic forces lessors to rethink risk: panel
The pandemic has upended lessors’ market assumptions more than any crisis in the history of aviation, forcing them to reevaluate their approach to risk, an industry panel of lessors, lenders and remarketers has observed.
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General Atomics demos MQ-9’s anti-submarine tracking capability
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems successfully tracked a small submersible target for 3h using 10 sonobuoys dropped from an MQ-9 UAV.
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Magnix consolidates, moves headquarters from Redmond to Everett, Washington
Electric aircraft propulsion company Magnix is consolidating its operations at a new headquarters in Everett, Washington, a move the company says will give it a greater presence in Washington’s aerospace hub.
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Is this the new look for Eviation’s Alice?
An image obtained by FlightGlobal shows what appears to be an evolution of Eviation’s design for its all-electric Alice commuter aircraft.
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Biden team says US travel restrictions will remain
The administration of US President-elect Joe Biden has no intention of immediately lifting the USA’s entry ban on travellers arriving from certain coronavirus-affected countries.
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BBAM orders another six 737-800 Boeing Converted Freighters
Aircraft lessor BBAM Limited Partnership has placed orders with Boeing for the conversion of six additional 737-800s into the Boeing Converted Freighter configuration.
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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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EASA to approve 737 Max return next week
Europe’s safety regulator will next week approve the return to service of the Boeing 737 Max when it releases its final airworthiness directive (AD) for the troubled twinjet.
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Sriwijaya crash probe aims for preliminary findings in early February
Indonesian investigators are aiming to publish preliminary findings regarding the Sriwijaya Boeing 737-500 crash in early February, in line with ICAO standards. Investigation authority KNKT says the flight-data recorder download has yielded information on 370 parameters. KNKT head Nurcahyo Utomo says the authority hopes to publish a preliminary ...
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Emirates and Etihad to trial IATA’s Travel Pass
UAE-based carriers Emirates and Etihad will be among the first airlines in the world to use IATA’s Travel Pass app, with trials to begin in the first half of this year.
