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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American airline company Southwest Airline Co. has improved forecast for the income for the first quarter 2022 appealing to business improvement in March due to reduction of infection rate with coronavirus variant “omicron”. As the message of the airline company says, they expect reduction of the quarterly income by 8-10% as compared to the same period of the previous year instead of earlier forecasted reduction…
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On Summer more than 900000 Ryanair customers suffered from cancellation of thousands of flights to Lisboan. According to the data of Irish airline company they had to reduce their fleet of the airplanes in Portugal city from seven to four that effected 150 employees and thousands of the customers. In total 19 routes were cancelled from the Summer 2022 schedule after Ryanair entered into hot…
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American airline company United Airlines against the situation with COVID-19 decided to return to work unvaccinated employees. United Airline company declared that from March 28th will allow unvaccinated employees to return to their job positions and asked federal appeals court to dismiss legal claim against COVID-19 vaccination as disputed. American air carrier based in Chicago informed in coordination memorandum that about 2200 employees received reasonable…
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American Airlines crew impacted unidentified flying object over New Mexico of February 21st 2021. American Airline confirmed strange incident during which “long cylindric object looking like winged aircraft” flew over Airbus A320. Flight 2292 of American Airlines flew from Cincinnati to Fenix on Sunday afternoon when it came in touch with mysterious object on the approximate altitude of 11 kilometers above North-East New Mexico. Radio…
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