German airline company Condor presented its new brand style. New livery represents strips of five colors on white background. As authors explained this painting was inspired by leisure accessories – umbrellas, bath towels and sun loungers. “For the last 2.5 years Condor has undergone transformation: from subsidiary company of vertically integrated touristic group transformed into independent, – Ralf Teckentrup, Condor CEO said. – This sign…
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American airline company Alaska Airlines offers flight attendants Double Time Rate for additional routes to avoid staff shortage against expected demand increase on air travel in the nearest months, CNBC informs. Standard salary of the flight attendants includes 100 routes made during one month all more are considered additional and have double tariff. “As well as many airline companies we face labor problems. To solve…
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Within the program on transition to “sustainable” fuel types, Airbus company for the first time conducted test flights of the giant airplane A380 on 100% bio fuel. Such fuel powered one of four engines. It is already third and the biggest Airbus airplane that uses during experiments fuel that mostly consists of vegetable oil. Company anticipates to certify technology for massive use till the end…
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Lawyers of the law firms Kearney Law Firm and Gerger Hennessy & McFarlane LLP that represent interests of Fokner, in turn, during the process asserted that attorney is not capable to present competent evidences but their defendant was not aware of the changes in MCAS that have been introduced by other Boeing engineers. Former main technical pilot till today is the only person who was…
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The jury of the federal court of the Northern District of Texas returned ex main technical pilot of aviation company Boeing non guilty in misrepresentation of the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and several airline companies about requirements to the 737 Max airplanes two of which crashed. Mark Forkner was absolved in all four clauses of the fraud charges with the use of electronic means…
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EASA has certified converted narrow-body freighter A320P2F. Elbe Flugzeugwerke (EFW) joint venture of Singapore ST Engineering and Airbus got additional certificate of EASA type for narrow-body airplane Airbus A320P2F converted from passenger into freight version. STC-certificate of the European Aviation Safety Authority was received approximately three years after the first flight of the new freighter. This is not first EFW project on converting Airbus passenger…
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According to the sources negotiations between Delta Air Lines and Boeing for acquiring 100 passenger airplanes of 737 MAX 10 model are on the final stage. Airplane model Boeing 737 MAX 10 competes with the most sold Airbus model – A321neo. Both airplanes have big passenger capacity a little more than 200 seats. Boeing and Delta representatives haven’t commented transaction as of yet. United Airlines…
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Lease company refused three wide-body airplanes Boeing 787 in favor of 18 narrow-body airplanes Boeing 737. Just after three months after placing big order for more than 100 narrow-body airplanes of Airbus production lease company Air Lease Corporation (ALC) acquires 50 units of Boeing 737MAX. New order consists of 32 MAX (of the variants -8 and -9) plus 18 airplanes Boeing 737 that company will…
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Dominican airline company Arajet in January placed order for 20 airplanes Boeing 737 MAX, PR Newswire informs. Arajet also may additionally acquire 15 more airplanes of this model. In this case company’s airline fleet will grow up to 40 airplanes having 5 airplanes taken in lease. It is planned that Boeing 737 MAX that may fly on longer distance and consumes by 20% less fuel…
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Big US airline companies reduced their capacity assessment for the first quarter as higher fuel cost due deprives some of them of the advantages against stable recovery of demand on the trips. Fuel prices is the main component of expenses of American airline companies that in any case face high labor expense. Delta Air Lines (DAL.N) and United Airlines Holdings that are not insured against…
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