Eastern Airlines on their own under accelerated program converts 35 airplanes Boeing 777 into freight version for express-delivery. American passenger airline company Eastern Airlines developed own accelerated program of conversion airplanes Boeing 777 from passenger into freight version (P2F; passenger to freighter) and intends to launch cargo transportation on converted airplanes. It will have three times more freighters than passenger airplanes that it operates now….
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FAA hasn’t approved company’s suggestions of the methods of inspection of new airplanes. American aviation company Boeing as it is expected minimum till the end of October will not be able to resume deliveries of the airplanes 787 Dreamliner due to negotiations with the regulatory authority that should inspect the airplanes. Federal Aviation Agency (FAA) hasn’t approved as of yet company’s suggestions of the methods…
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Asian low-cost carrier AirAsia continues to develop in the direction of electronic commerce platform, is diversifying business and added service of car trips order in their application. After acquisition of Gojek business in Thailand (car trips and payments) Malaysian aviation group moved to the same direction and on the home market adding into their application possibility to order trips to the city. Initially AirAsia Ride…
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Airbus Helicopters the biggest manufacturer of helicopter equipment in the world will present one-engine helicopter ACH130 on the business aviation exhibition RUBAE that will take place near Moscow in location Vnukovo-3 during the period from September 8th to September 10th. Thanks to closed antitorque propeller of Fenestron type and system of the propeller speed automatic control, ACH130 is considered the most noiseless helicopter in its…
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Brazilian airline company Embraer showed concept of turbo-prop passenger airplane with the engine in the tail part. Such configuration should make it less noisy. As Flightglobal informs turbo-prop Embraer airplane may replace outdated ERJ and CRJ 200. Today turbo-prop passenger airplanes are not so popular anymore as they were in the past. They are considered narrate and noisy. Three popular turbo-prop airplanes in production represent…
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India has validated recertification of the airplane Boeing 737MAX approving big local low-cost airline company SpiceJet to resume commercial flights of the B-738MAX-8 fleet. By order from August 26th that came into force immediately Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) removed ban for operation of this airplane by the airline companies provided that airplanes will be inspected on safety compliance before resuming the flights. Ban…
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Latvian government approved increase of the fixed capital of the national carrier. To overcome economy crises and compensate losses received by airBaltic during COVID-19 pandemic its major stock holder – Latvian government approved increase of the fixed capital of the airline company by 90 million euro. Now this decision must be approved by European Commission. It is expected that with the planned initial public offering…
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One of the biggest airline companies of the Northern Europe, Finnish airline company Finnair prohibited to use on its flights cloth masks. Corresponding resolution was published on the carrier’s web-site. Company referred to low efficiency of cloth masks in protection of the tourists against COVID-19 infection. With this regard it recommended to use only medical face masks and FFP masks of N95 standard. “From August…
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Britain low-cost company EasyJet will launch for flight attendants and pilots new uniform made of recycled plastic bottles. Carrier marks that partnership with North Irish manufacturer Tailored Image will allow the company to reduce throwing to waste or into the oceans more than half of million of plastic bottles per one year. But during five years for which agreement is signed – 2.7 million bottles….
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Irish airline company Ryanair from August 18th doesn’t accept boarding passes that the passengers acquired through ticket service Kiwi. Now lows-cost company considers them fake – informs Ryanair press service. Thea reason of such decision became the fact that flight search engine gives tickets without complying with Ryanair security protocols. As Ryanair marketing director Dara Brady said, according to EU standards passengers are obliges to…
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