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At least seven dead as freighter overruns DRC runway

At least seven people have been killed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo after an Airbus A310 freighter overshot the runway and struck a number of homes. The accident happened at about 16:00h local time yesterday (Thursday) when the A310 belonging to Services Air attempted to land at the...

China looks to Israel to get its civil aviation industry off the ground

Chinese sign deal with IAI to build development center in Shantou in effort to expand local aircraft manufacturing. Just a few days after the Technion broke ground on a research center in Guangdong, a second Israeli institution — Israel Aerospace Industries — announced that it, too, w...

Researchers propose tweak to three-hour rule for tarmac delays

Passenger rights activists lobbied for years for the US Department of Transportation to establish a “three-hour rule” for tarmac delays, with the goal of preventing grossly extended delays upon taxi-out or taxi-in. In this context, the rule has been unequivocally successful; long tarmac delays are down. But experts have, once again, called into question whether pass...

El Al Airlines Stock Rallies Despite Israel’s Tourism Slump

At first sight, investors have good reasons to shun El Al Israel Airlines shares. The national carrier is grappling with a slump in tourism fueled by political violence, as well as intensified competition after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government opened the market to low-cost operators in 2013. Yet the 1.46 billion-shekel ($374 million) company has a combination of factors in i...

12 Best Long-Haul Airline Seats in the Sky to Fly in 2016

Long-haul flight can be excruciating, but it doesn’t need to be. Aeronautics engineers, aircraft manufacturers, designers, and airlines have collaborated to improve the choices available, introducing cabins which could make flying long distances bearable again. Leaving out the extreme luxury of Etihad’s The Residence (which, obviously, yes, but our travel budget ha...

Airbus Gets $2.27 Billion China Southern Airline Plane Order

China Southern Airlines Co., Asia’s biggest airline by passenger numbers, said it agreed to buy 10 Airbus Group SE A330-300 aircraft valued at $2.27 billion in list prices. The planes are for delivery between 2017 and 2019, the airline said in a statement to the Hong Kong stock exchange Wednesday.

Aerial Firefighters Close Out 2015 Fire Season, With Innovations For 2016 Underway

The aerial firefighting industry is already preparing for what could be another intense period, as it winds down from one of the most destructive wildland fire seasons ever experienced in the American west, particularly in California and the Pacific Northwest. "The helicopter and fixed wing aerial tanker companies once again proved their reliability and readiness to deploy their aircraft a...

Aviation safety experts urge caution with a popular Christmas gift

Drones are tipped to be one of the most popular presents this Christmas but fledgling pilots have been delivered a stern warning about the potential dangers for new flyers. The Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) is urging people to stick to a handful of basic rules in the wake of a high-profile incident where a pro-skier narrowly avoided having a drone fall out of the sky on his head. Pe...

Aeroflot Group announces traffic statistics for November 2015

Aeroflot PJSC announces operating results for Aeroflot Group («the Group») and Aeroflot — Russian Airlines («the Company») for November and the eleven months of 2015. The operating results of Aeroflot Group and Aeroflot — Russian Airlines for November 2015 were significantly influenced by the Group’s participation in a major program to c...

Crystal Luxury Air acquires ex-Air Austral B777

Crystal Luxury Air has acquired an ex-Air Austral B777-200(LR) in the form of F-OLRA (msn 40955) now re-registered as P4-XTL under the Aruban registry. The aircraft will shortly be joined by a B787-8 as well as an A319-100CJ and a Bombardier Global Express XRS. Beginning March 2016, the cruise specialist will use the new aircraft to operate private charters and transport guests from any po...

Southwest settles FAA lawsuit for $2.8mn

Southwest Airlines and the United States have settled a lawsuit involving allegations the Texan LCC operated numerous B737 aircraft that did not conform to US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) maintenance standards and were therefore not airworthy. In November last year, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced a USD12 million lawsuit against Southwest for three separate types of mainte...

Egypt plane crash: Airlines extend suspension of Sharm el-Sheikh flights

Travel firms Thomson and Thomas Cook have extended a suspension of flights to the Egyptian holiday resort of Sharm el-Sheikh until at least 23 March. The UK government suspended flights to the Red Sea resort in November after the suspected bombing of a Russian passenger jet killed 224 people. So-called Islamic State militants claimed responsibility for the attack. Over 16,000 Britons stra...

British Airways celebrates ba.com Christmas birthday

Michael Jackson’s Earth Song was the festive number one, kids were going crazy to have the must-have ‘Pogs’ as presents, there was a run on Cranberries thanks to Delia Smith’s latest Christmas recipes – and ba.com was about to make its debut on the internet. The worldwide web was still finding its feet and few people really understood how big a difference the inter...

Continuing Traffic Growth and Record Airline Profits Highlight 2015 Air Transport Results

Preliminary figures released today by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) show the total number of passengers carried on scheduled services rising to 3.5 billion in 2015, a 6.4 per cent increase over last year. The number of departures reached approximately 34 million globally, and world passenger traffic, expressed in terms of total scheduled revenue passenger-kilometres (RPKs...

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