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Air travellers riot as pilot takes off without them after two hour delay

Police had to be called to Düsseldorf airport when around 70 passengers rioted after the pilot of their delayed flight took off without them, leaving them stranded on the tarmac, it has emerged. The passengers had already been waiting two hours for their delayed flight to Dresden with Eurowings, a low-cost subsidiary of Lufthansa, on Friday evening. But when a bus finally took them from...

Lufthansa Technik: New strategic partnership with FLYdocs

Lufthansa Technik AG enters into a strategic partnership with the aviation data and records management software provider FLYdocs. As part of this agreement, Lufthansa Technik has become shareholder in the FLYdocs business, replacing the Private Equity partner GCP. FLYdocs will remain an independent entity that continues to drive the digitalization of paper-based processes under the current...

Boeing, Sikorsky Make Pitches For German Heavy Helo Need

Boeing and Sikorsky and have laid out their pitches for an expected German procurement of heavy-lift helicopters. Both the Boeing CH-47F Chinook and Sikorsky CH-53K King Stallion are the prime candidates for the much-anticipated €3 billion ($3.35 billion) German Heavy Transport Helicopter Program (STH). The new aircraft will replace Germany’s aging fleet of license-built CH...

Germany grounds Merkel's helicopter after fatal Norway crash

The German Defence Ministry decided on Friday to ground the three Airbus Cougar AS532 helicopters used to transport Chancellor Angela Merkel, after a Europe-wide grounding of the civilian version of the aircraft, a ministry spokesman said. An Airbus H225 Super Puma helicopter ferrying passengers from a Norwegian oil platform operated by Statoil crashed on April 29, killing all 13 people on boar...

WIKING Helikopter Service GmbH orders two H145s for offshore operations

Airbus Helicopters and WIKING Helikopter Service GmbH signed a contract for two H145s in offshore configuration at the international aerospace exhibition ILA in Berlin, making them the first Airbus Helicopters products to be added to their WIKING Helikopter Service GmbH’s fleet. The delivery of the first H145 is scheduled for the end of the year. Both rotorcrafts will be used for the transfe...

Berlin prepares for supersonic display featuring world's fastest aircraft

Thousands of visitors will arrive in Berlin for the city's 2016 airshow which will feature some of the most advanced military and civilian aircraft currently available. More than 200 aircraft will be on display, many of them performing test flights above the crowds, including Second World War-era Messerschmitt Me 109 fighter and an Me 262, the first production jet aircraft. V...

A320neo with CFM LEAP-1A engines receives joint EASA / FAA certification

Airbus announced that the A320neo powered by CFMInternational’s LEAP-1A engine has received Type Certification from the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) and the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), paving the way for delivery of the first A320neo equipped with the LEAP engine in mid-2016. “Today’s announcement marks another great milestone in t...

German RepRap Comes Through for Airbus Helicopters Again

While a helicopter serves many purposes, one of the most common is aerial surveillance and/or video and photography. How many times have you turned on your local news and watched a slow pan across rush hour traffic, or looked on in horror as the national news presents you with a birds-eye view of the latest natural or man-made disaster? Of course, now there are drones moving in to the aerial...

Air Hamburg orders one more Embraer Legacy 650 business jet

Embraer Executive Jets and the Germany-based business charter operator Air Hamburg have signed a purchase agreement for yet another Legacy 650. The agreement was announced today at the opening of the 16th European Business Aviation Convention and Exhibition (EBACE) in Geneva, Switzerland. The delivery of this aircraft is scheduled for the third quarter of 2016. This new acquisition brings to ni...

Lufthansa Technik and DC Aviation Group sign cooperation agreement

Joint services in Dubai Lufthansa Technik has concluded a cooperation agreement with DC Aviation Group, a leading operator of business jets in Europe. As part of the agreement signed on May 25, 2016, the two companies plan to offer their VIP customers a first-class package of services at Al Maktoum International Airport (Dubai World Central Airport). An experienced, highly qualified team...

DC Aviation forms strategic alliance with Lenz Aviation for further development of aircraft management market

Germany's largest business jet operator, DC Aviation, headquartered in Stuttgart, and Lenz Aviation, headquartered in Weinstadt, have entered into a strategic cooperation with the objective of jointly boosting DC Aviation's core business: aircraft management. Under the leadership of Hans-Jörg Lenz, a native son of Stuttgart, Lenz Aviation, with its worldwide aircraft sales and brokera...

Lufthansa Technik presents interior concept for the A350 VVIP

New cabin is focused on health and well-being on board At EBACE 2016 Lufthansa Technik's design department has unveiled its brand-new Airbus A350 VVIP interior concept, called »Welcome Home«. The unique cabin is placing the human being in the center of the story and emphasizes a comprehensive approach towards health and well-being on-board. It promotes flexible areas for priv...