In the future program will support helicopters and sailplanes. Competent third-party developer under the name PMDG announced release date of likely most expected airplane in Microsoft Flight Simulator – Boeing 737. Update was released on May 9th. Now developer released airplane only for PC users, however, in the future, author wants to transfer release to official market that means launching airplane for Xbox consoles. At…
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Lufthansa CEO Carsten Spohr expected price increase on the tickets on April 2nd, informs Der Spiegel magazine. “I suppose that flights will become more expensive”, Spohr said in the interview to German magazine. It is marked that fuel makes from 20 to 30% of the flight cost but the air kerosene cost during short time has almost increased twice. Lufthansa has already twice increased prices…
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As well as Lufthansa Emirates based in Dubai airline company of United Arab Emirates also increases prices on the tickets. Emirates as well as other airline companies suffered of the current cost increase of the fuel. Airline company is closely following dynamics of prices on fuel as on it comes the biggest part of its operating expenses. However, Emirates works on passing on to the…
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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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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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Among them are Emirates, Air India and Japan Airlines. The biggest telecommunication operators in USA AT&T and Verizon Communications agreed to postpone temporarily launching into service some 5G towers near key airports. It was made in order to prevent serious failures in the flights of the airline company due to noise waves for airplanes’ radar altimeters used during take-offs and landings. In December 2021 Boeing…
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In European Commission refuse to recognize existence of any problems because of the rule of saving the slots. “From our point of view, it is unnecessary fuss. We don’t have evidences from any of the airline companies, including Lufthansa, about some quantity of performed empty flights”, – European Commission informed. They have marked that number of the flights this winter is on the level 73-78%…
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European airline companies make thousands of ghost flights in order to save slots. Airline companies and eco-activists say that this winter in Europe will be made more than 100 thousand of actually unnecessary flights. It has to do with the rules according to which in order to save slots in the airports, airline companies have to use them always even if there is no enough…
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According to the Transportation Safety Administration traffic in the airports has recently made about 85% from before-pandemic levels recorded at the end of 2019. Figures were not so high as on the weekend of Thanksgiving Day (almost 90%) but though they are higher than investors anticipated. These encouraging tendencies, however, cannot hide the fact that for the investors of the airline company not for the…
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One of the reasons why this defect is so much spread in Qatar Airways is climate conditions in which the airplanes are operated in the region of The Persian Gulf for example significant differences of temperatures between parking and flight on the cruising level. The second problem – detachment of the paint from the fasteners – is also known in Boeing: American manufacturer faced this…
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